- Jan 19, 2012
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Hello guys, been a fan of the forums here and they have been very useful to me in the past. But this time i cannot find anything to help me with my issue.
I got a really good deal on a Radeon HD 4670 AGP Ice-q graphics card. I reformatted my whole hard drive and loaded it with windows vista home premium 32 bit. I installed all the drivers, installed Catalyst and then updated and installed all fresh new drivers for my new card. I got everything up and running, graphics look great on the games i play such as WoW, starcraft. etc.. But heres where the problem is.. While im playing these games i will get a lag spike when i dont move my curser for about 5 seconds. Everything is great and lag free while im moving my cursor. Also every now and then i will get a blank screen that will eventualy come back between 10-30 seconds with a popup saying "A DISPLAY DRIVER ____ has stopped responding and has recovered"... I have tried everything i can think of to attempt to fix these two issues and am stumped now. By the way, i am still a noob when it comes to computers. Oh yeah i forgot to mention i even picked up a new higher wattage power supply to try to fix the issue. I thought maybe there wasnt enough juice to power everything under load.
Here are my specs
Coolmax 500watt PSU (replaced a antec 300watt)
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (OC'd to 2.2ghz)
Shuttle AN-35N 400 Ultra Motherboard
1.5gb of ram
Radeon Hd 4670 agp 1gb (replaced a radeon 9700 pro)
80gb hard drive
Windows vista home premium 32 bit
Antec case
Thanks in advance, i just cant wait to get back to playing without problems
I got a really good deal on a Radeon HD 4670 AGP Ice-q graphics card. I reformatted my whole hard drive and loaded it with windows vista home premium 32 bit. I installed all the drivers, installed Catalyst and then updated and installed all fresh new drivers for my new card. I got everything up and running, graphics look great on the games i play such as WoW, starcraft. etc.. But heres where the problem is.. While im playing these games i will get a lag spike when i dont move my curser for about 5 seconds. Everything is great and lag free while im moving my cursor. Also every now and then i will get a blank screen that will eventualy come back between 10-30 seconds with a popup saying "A DISPLAY DRIVER ____ has stopped responding and has recovered"... I have tried everything i can think of to attempt to fix these two issues and am stumped now. By the way, i am still a noob when it comes to computers. Oh yeah i forgot to mention i even picked up a new higher wattage power supply to try to fix the issue. I thought maybe there wasnt enough juice to power everything under load.
Here are my specs
Coolmax 500watt PSU (replaced a antec 300watt)
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (OC'd to 2.2ghz)
Shuttle AN-35N 400 Ultra Motherboard
1.5gb of ram
Radeon Hd 4670 agp 1gb (replaced a radeon 9700 pro)
80gb hard drive
Windows vista home premium 32 bit
Antec case
Thanks in advance, i just cant wait to get back to playing without problems
So.. I tried a few things, i cleaned out my whole case, made sure to remove all dust from heatsink to reduce temp a little bit. Seemed to help drop temp a tad bit. Once i got it all back in place and started it up, i went online and looked for a driver fixxing tool. I found a driver sweeper. I figured i had nothing to lose and gave it a try. I let it clean up my drivers. Once that finished i restarted my PC, loaded up starcraft.. and what do ya know 
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