Re: Black Screen, no help from ATI


If this is so, then why does it keep asking for a standard VGA when I try
to install? And, I don't have a desktop, I have a laptop, Toshiba Satellite
"Jerry" wrote:

When you uninstall the manufacturer's provided video drivers and then start
the computer and Windows starts Windows will, by default, install the VGA
drivers it has in its database. So, that means if you are at a desktop, you
have standard VGA already installed. While it may look crappy that's what it
is and what you get.

"Sparx100" <Sparx100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yeah, I used system restore last night and it worked. Sorry, I freaked out
a
little when my screen was messed up. Thank you for your help. I really
appreciate it. Now that I'm back to square one, any ideas on where to go
from
here? What about getting a standard VGA?

"Jimmy S." wrote:

Hi Sparx100,

If the new drivers are not working on your system, you can roll them
back:
Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
the adapter, select Properties > select Driver tab and then click:
Roll Back Driver.

If that doesn't work for you use Windows XP System Restore:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gethelp/systemrestore.asp


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Sparx100 Wrote:
=================
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Sparx100,
||
|| Updating video card drivers can solve most gaming issues. Here's some
|| simple abc's to always keep in mind. a. Shut off download
accelerators,
|| firewalls and antivirus programs when downloading or installing
updates;
|| b. Check for game patches:
www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
|| c. Make sure you meet the game's minimum video and system
requirements;
|| d. Check for known issues with your video card at the game's web site.
:-)
||
|| 1. Before you update your drivers, I recommend that you update
DirectX
|| from: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx
||
|| Please look over the ATI articles about their latest driver on the
download page.
|| They list Installation Tips, Fixes, and Release Notes with important
information.
||
|| 2. Download the latest Catalyst driver for ATI Radeon or All in Wonder
Card:
||
|| Win XP/2000: http://ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html
|| Win 98/Me: http://ati.com/support/drivers/winme/radeonwdm-me.html
||
|| 3. Save the .exe driver in My Documents\My Drivers\ATI
||
|| 4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||
|| 5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
|| Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
|| the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.
||
|| 6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
|| previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.
||
|| 7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||
|| 8. If Windows prompts you to install the adapter, click "Cancel".
||
|| 9. Double click the ATI driver we saved to My Documents\ My
|| Drivers\ATI folder in step 3 to install.it. If it complains
about
|| Windows Logo Certification just click "Continue". This is
normal.
||
|| 10. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
|| choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 800x600 or higher Resolution.
||
|| TROUBLESHOOTING:
||
|| Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
|| Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
|| If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
|| your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as
per
|| my website: http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11
||
|| Your program might not support dual monitors, or "dual head" video
cards
|| You can disable the extra video output in your display properties
control
|| panel. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced.
||
|| Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
|| and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
|| motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
|| your Video card. These steps are listed at:
http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk
||
|| Perhaps the old ATI drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's
the
|| case, use these utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to
step 7:
|| http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/ (works for all cards including
nvidia)
||
|| The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
|| (Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game
folder/CD)
|| If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you
still
|| experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver
instead:
||
|| BETA Drivers: http://download.guru3d.com/
|| OMEGA Drivers: http://www.omegadrivers.net
||
|| There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them!
:-)
||
|| --
|| Cheers, Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| Sparx100 Wrote:
|| =================
||| "Jerry" wrote:
|||
|||| You go here http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html and select the
|||| appropriate items and download the latest drivers
||||
|||| "Sparx100" <Sparx100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|||| news:5022D470-BD57-44CC-B8B0-84594996CFC7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
||||| I desperately want to play Ahriman's Prophecy and games that are
similar.
||||| However, when I download them and start them up they crash my
computer and
||||| briefly flash a message saying there is a problem with the ati2dvag
driver
||||| and that "device driver is stuck in an infinite loop." I have
Windows XP
||||| with
||||| ATI Radeon xpress 200m series. I attempted to update or fix the
problem at
||||| ATI's website but I am somewhat simple when it comes to computers
and
||||| cannot
||||| find where and what to download exactly. Could someone help?
||||
||||
|||| Well, it didn't work... when I tried to install it, it said "Try to
setup your display adapter with a standard VGA driver
|||| before running setup"... what does this mean and what do I do?
||
||
|| Jimmy S.
| ... No offense, but now I'm royally screwed. I have uninstalled my ATI
| display driver, and when I tried to install the update it said i needed
a
| standard VGA drive. Now my display on my compute is vertically
stretched and
| fuzzy. I really would appreciate it if you helped me fix it.






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