Re: WOW ati video card resetting

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From: Jimmy S. (Private)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:31:20 -0500

Hi Jim,

I looked at that link that ATI gave you to follow.
You should be able to follow most of that with our help.

Get started on it, and when you run into a question or a problem,
post back and we'll pitch in and help you from there. Sound good? :-) 

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"Traderjim" <Traderjim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3AEDC137-ED1D-4631-8E09-10EFEA953D4D@microsoft.com...
> While playing the best video game ever created, World of Warcraft, my screen
> locks up for a few seconds, turns black for a few more and then is fine
> again.  Every few times this happens, it then becomes worse and then gives me
> an error message, which reads:  "Vpu recover was unable to fully recover from
> a hardware deadlock and has switched to software rendering.  To restore
> hardware rendering you must restart your computer.  Do you want to restart
> now?"  It seems that most of the time the vpu recover thing resets the video
> card but sometimes it cant and I must restart.  I contacted blizzard customer
> service and they directed me to this link:
> http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/3968.html.  I have no idea what anything
> on this page means ecspecially the bios info, which i cant find on my
> computer.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I am running windows xp, ATI radeon 8500 series video card.

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