Re: Don't get a Radeon

From: Miss Perspicacia Tick (misstick_at_lancre.dw)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:50:10 -0000

Richard Higgins wrote:
> If you are going to use an Athlon 64 and use Microsoft Word, don't
> get a Radeon 9800. I don't know about any other Radeons. Their
> driver (Catalyst) and MS Word do not play together well. Running MS
> Word will cause your system to automatically reboot, usually within 2
> minutes after MS Word has started.
>
> If you are having this problem already, uninstall the Radeon driver
> and see if MS Word works. You'll see that it does. Reinstall the
> drivers and MS Word won't work.
>
> There are some that have installed old versions of the Radeon drivers
> and even Radeon 9600 drivers for their Radeon 9800 and got MS Word to
> work with it.
>
> Radeon's fix is to dummy down the board to where you might as well
> have gotten a cheap generic graphics card.
>
> My solution was to get an nVidia 6800. Works like a charm.
>
> -------------
> Richard A. Higgins

What a load of complete and utter bollocks! Running an Athlon 64 system with
a 9800XT with the latest Catalyst - no problems at all. Oh and, guess what?!
I also run Word 2003. Just because it doesn't work with your setup is a
nonsense reason to be dishing out "don't buy it" 'advice'. I've not had a
day's trouble with mine. 

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