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Device failure in windows xp home
[RS]Cincinnatus:
HEHE, the past few posts since my post have been boggling because of various responses to MY problem and to USSDelta's problem.
Anyway... about -my- problem
Here are the results of various tests people have presented:
I followed the "uninstall drivers, reinstall dx9, reinstall drivers" procedure. Same error
I tried downgrading to the latest reference drivers for Catalyst (2.5). No go.
I then tried DX 8.1 and Catalyst 2.5 (by doing a massive system restore back to December 17th.) The problem was fixed, but the reason I upgraded to DX9 and Catalyst 3.0 is because I needed them to fix several errors and enable several features. If reverting to ancient drivers that do not incorporate the following necessities...
* run Armada 2
* use truform
* use fast writes
* play Asheron's Call 2 and Serious Sam 2 without SERIOUS display corruption
* allow 16x Anisotropic Filtering
* run things 24% slower according to all benchmarks and tests
* allow over and underclocking
* properly display vid card and RAM temperatures
* properly read my video RAM as 128mb ddr instead of 64mb sdr
* stop the random hard drive demounts (yes- ouch )
....is the only way I can get my system to stop crashing, I may as well reformat my hard drive to clear out the ATI drivers and pop my (slower) GeForce 3 in, as it will probably end up running faster than the Radeon 9700 on Catalyst 2.5, and the GeForce will CERTAINLY have fewer bugs (I used the Geforce 3 for almost 2 years and after the very first driver patch I never had any graphics-related performance OR stability issues, anywhere, and I am a hardcore gamer and graphics editor. Perhaps what I need is a "faster" GeForce, as long as the same rock-solid stability remains.)
So please, what is your secret? How can I get these "WHQL certified" [ha! hahahahahaha!] Catalyst 3.0 drivers to work?!
BTW: to try one last suggestion by a poster, I will include the dxdiag readout now. Edited to reduce the length of this already long post. Hey, considering the size of some peoples' signatures+pics, this isn't TOO bad.
Many thanks to any who have actually read the DxDiag report even if you don't have any suggestions
EDIT:There is a problem with attaching files here. Apparently, according to the FAQ, you can't. I'm not going to post it here because it is gigantic, it will take up almost an entire page of this thread. Ridding myself of frustration is not worth a whole page.
But on the other hand.. if anyone really would like to help I can email it to you... post your email here if interested... TIA!
USSDelta:
goto start - run then type in dxdiag, when the bar at the bottem of the screen has vanished goto the display part, then click on test direct3d, if it comes up about something about your display drivers not being compatable with direct3d 9 then goto your graphics card manufacturers website and download the latest drivers, install them and run the test again, you shouldn't have any problem with direct3d, that may have been the problem, i'll get back to you on that
USSDelta:
IT WORKS!!!!
Rod O'neal:
After reading this post I went to ATI's site and found that there are newer drivers and control panel available. Released yesterday. Seems like USSDelta allready found them though. Anybody else having probs might want to check it out
USSDelta:
mine aren't the most upto date, but they work fine, so does SFC 3, that works perectly(finaly)
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