Need help with Catalyst and ATi Tool

Everytime I try to launch Catalyst, nothing happens. Everytime I try to use AtiTool to overclock, the comp freezes. Help plz?

I did. And I reinstalled it again. And then again. CCC still doesn't work.

well, the overclocking is most likely causing your comp to crash, no mystery there. the ccc not opening is a bit stranger. have you used the catalyst uninstaller to wipe it then installed the whole thing again and do you have any firewall software that might be blocking it.

also what are your specs and is it the 6.9 cats.

Did you try to download both the ccc and the drivers?And the OC is from the atitool.

Ive heard that you need to have .net installed first also,otherwise Im stumped

in ati tool you click find max core and it goes until your video card crashes, then do the same with max mem. you then go start - all programs - ati tool - ati tool log file. which tells you the last amount it was at before crashing move the sliders to about 20 bellow that number and click new. then try games and stuff if it crashes turn it down a little more and click save, keep trying until its at the highest number without crashing

Ah I see. I woulda thought that they would try to overclock without crashing... thanks for teh tip, I'll try that

2006-10-27 16:48:31 ATITool v0.24 started.
2006-10-27 16:48:31 Detected GPU Chip: 0x0 (0), 8 Pipelines, 512 MB
2006-10-27 16:48:31 Temperature monitoring: not supported
2006-10-27 16:48:31 Could not locate ATI BIOS - assuming 27.000 Mhz Ref. clock
2006-10-27 16:52:43 Find Max Core started...
2006-10-27 16:54:48 ATITool v0.24 started.
2006-10-27 16:54:49 Detected GPU Chip: 0x0 (0), 8 Pipelines, 512 MB
2006-10-27 16:54:49 Temperature monitoring: not supported
2006-10-27 16:54:49 Could not locate ATI BIOS - assuming 27.000 Mhz Ref. clock
2006-10-27 16:54:53 Profile 'MingoDynasty' loaded.
2006-10-27 16:55:01 Application terminated.
2006-10-27 17:00:43 ATITool v0.24 started.
2006-10-27 17:00:43 Detected GPU Chip: 0x0 (0), 8 Pipelines, 512 MB
2006-10-27 17:00:43 Temperature monitoring: not supported
2006-10-27 17:00:43 Could not locate ATI BIOS - assuming 27.000 Mhz Ref. clock
2006-10-27 17:00:43 Profile 'MingoDynasty' loaded.

Copied straight from the log.txt file.
Wtf does all that mean? lolol

Isn't it harmful to the card to forcefully overclock to the point where it crashes?

since when do you get third party software bundled with ATI's CCC :?

I used to have a version of ATI tool that I used, don't remember exactly where i got it from it was a while back. Anyway, at one point when I downloaded a newer version of Catalyst (the full version) in the release notes or somewhere it stated that this version was no longer compatable with the ATI Tool, or could cause the utilty to hang, so I uninstalled it.
But the Catalyst package (again, the full package, not the smaller version that is divers only) has an overclocking utility built into it.

yes it can damage the card if you do it like every day but the reason it crashes is because it reaches a point that tells it to turn off before it is damaged. ati tool is compatible with everything except for temporal anti aliasing and alternate pixel center (and those are only when its actually running the 3d thingy those functions work when you aren't actualy doing the over clock)

however long it takes to crash

that means it crashed so try getting max mem then cause its already pretty much high as your gonna get

thats why you just watch it until it crashes and remember a number close to were it crashed

ps. ya we do

your totally not helping not everyone can just afford a new card and the x1900 is an amazing card