Ati2dvag problem

Maybe you need to mention your current video card.

Also, when you reinstall XP, you can have the setup program format a drive. And yes, normal copies of Windows can be installed unlimited times, so long as they're not used on more than one computer.

...That grape ape is right....and if either of you are going to try to say that a card has problems or try to point out that both cards have problems PLEASE...post an article not from 07

....I suggest a format and new os install...just put the XP disc in and it lets you format the drive during install...

Also Brenslick your lucky you didn't go into anymore detail as the grape was light on his correction of your radeon problems...most people would just eat you up for bashing radeon with an obvious user error....

The problems you are having are not the card....thus changing to an nvidia card will not fix it...your the only person having these problems with a radeon card....gues what that means...

Using iPhone to reply, disregard my grammar.

Actually despite what you say many many people are havin this problem, it's an ati2dvag smartgart loop, and it occurs for several reasons but mostly because the card's drivers are incompatible with the Os. For example using earlie modles of radeons on Xp caused this error when hibernating, rebooting, or shutting down.
This has nothing to do with user error, it's a problem between he motherboards drivers not being up to date with the OS.
My example of this is quite recent, and I am currently solvin this error, I recently installed a hijacked windows7 on an hp a710n that originally came with windows xp, upon installation I noiced that my video card a radeon 9250 was not being utilized, I spent two days figurin it out because my Ati catalyst would not install itself or drivers for the card, instead I was getting the fail install standard VGA first error.
Anyway I went to Hps website and it turns out that the radeon 9250 only has drivers for the XP Os and after some research I found out that ati is only producing compatible drivers for the Hd radeons.
Anyway I ended up extracting the software on another CPU and then placing it all on USB stick then transfering it to my pc and doingthe manual device browse insall, low and behold my ati drivers were now installed . However this is the root cause of my ati2 error, by overwriting windows7's instruction to not install these incompatible drivers I have like many others caused a unrecognized command by windows when it tries to utilize the drivers to issue graphic commands.
So yor problem is probably two reasons
1, Os has no up to date/ compatible drivers with your card
2, you installed the drivers like I did and windows doesn't like it

ati needs to fix heir crap, and no it's not user error