display adapter issue

[Guest SSJ04 Mewtwo]

I have an ATI rage fury pro/xpert 2000 pro display adaptor, at least that's

what the device manager tells me.

 

On occasion, during warm reboots, the machine will lose the display driver

during the reboot. It'll get past the Windows's screen and when the desktop

is supposed to start loading, the screen is black.

 

Rebooting again will make the system go into the startup menu after the

Windows splash screen. It doesn't matter which option you choose because

it'll go straight into safe mode. Once it loads the wallpaper the display

properties will come up and I can change to high color 16 bit. After the

prompt to restart the machine will act fine again and I can resize the

desktop and change it to true 32.

 

This issue has gone on for years now. It'll happen more often if I change

the hardware acceleration past 0%.

 

Checked ATI's site but no updated drivers.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Guest Heirloom]

Re: display adapter issue

 

I had similar problems. Moving the hardware accel down would make it go

away. The cure was to obtain a different graphics card, in my case. There

were no updated drivers for my old card and it just would not do the trick

anymore.

The nice part is, you can get a decent graphics card pretty cheap. My bet

would be that would fix your problem.

Heirloom, old and did it for me

 

"SSJ04 Mewtwo" <ssj04mewtwo@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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>I have an ATI rage fury pro/xpert 2000 pro display adaptor, at least

>that's

> what the device manager tells me.

>

> On occasion, during warm reboots, the machine will lose the display

> driver

> during the reboot. It'll get past the Windows's screen and when the

> desktop

> is supposed to start loading, the screen is black.

>

> Rebooting again will make the system go into the startup menu after the

> Windows splash screen. It doesn't matter which option you choose because

> it'll go straight into safe mode. Once it loads the wallpaper the display

> properties will come up and I can change to high color 16 bit. After the

> prompt to restart the machine will act fine again and I can resize the

> desktop and change it to true 32.

>

> This issue has gone on for years now. It'll happen more often if I change

> the hardware acceleration past 0%.

>

> Checked ATI's site but no updated drivers.

>

> Thanks in advance.

>

>

[Guest SSJ04 Mewtwo]

Re: display adapter issue

 

Heirloom <nobodyhome@noplacelike.hom> wrote:

 

I had similar problems. Moving the hardware accel down would make it go

away. The cure was to obtain a different graphics card, in my case. There

were no updated drivers for my old card and it just would not do the trick

anymore.

The nice part is, you can get a decent graphics card pretty cheap. My bet

would be that would fix your problem.

Heirloom, old and did it for me

 

Thanks Loom. Whenever I can get the funds I'll look into that. Money's

been tight recently.

[Guest Heirloom]

Re: display adapter issue

 

I certainly can relate to that. Might I suggest you check around at some of

your local computer shops.....very often they will have old cards that are

left over from someone's upgrade, etc. that are working just fine and you

can pick one up for next to nothing. You should be able to pick up an old

32Meg card for a few bucks and that would be plenty for a machine running

Me.....a 64 Meg card shouldn't be much either. It is hard to find a new

card with less than 128 meg anymore!

 

Heirloom, old and just make sure you get the Me

compatible drivers with it!!!

 

 

"SSJ04 Mewtwo" <ssj04mewtwo@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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> Heirloom <nobodyhome@noplacelike.hom> wrote:

>

> I had similar problems. Moving the hardware accel down would make it go

> away. The cure was to obtain a different graphics card, in my case.

> There

> were no updated drivers for my old card and it just would not do the trick

> anymore.

> The nice part is, you can get a decent graphics card pretty cheap. My bet

> would be that would fix your problem.

> Heirloom, old and did it for me

>

> Thanks Loom. Whenever I can get the funds I'll look into that. Money's

> been tight recently.

>

>

[Guest SSJ04 Mewtwo]

Re: display adapter issue

 

Heirloom <nobodyhome@noplacelike.hom> wrote:I certainly can relate to that.

Might I suggest you check around at some of

your local computer shops.....very often they will have old cards that are

left over from someone's upgrade, etc. that are working just fine and you

can pick one up for next to nothing. You should be able to pick up an old

32Meg card for a few bucks and that would be plenty for a machine running

Me.....a 64 Meg card shouldn't be much either. It is hard to find a new

card with less than 128 meg anymore!

 

Heirloom, old and just make sure you get the Me

compatible drivers with it!!!

 

 

Amen to that. I'll have to e-mail freedom scientific to see if there's a

card that I shouldn't get because it'll mess with my JAWS for Windows.