ATI All-In-Wonder and new hardware...

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From: Zack (saberspark77_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/08/04 

Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:18:29 -0700

Thanks for your help...

I had already updated my ATI drivers, as well as
downloaded and installed all windowsupdate's available
updates. The only thing I hadn't done was upgrade to
DX9.0c, which I did this morning. Unfortunately, my
problem is still occurring.

Anyone else?

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello all,
>
>Recently I installed an Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe with a P4
>3.0E (hyper-threaded). Since that time, my ATI All-In-
>Wonder 7500 video card has been malfunctioning. Three or
>more times per Windows session, the screen goes black,
>then comes back garbled, then goes black again, and
>finally comes back to normal. It then displays a message
>stating that "VPU Recover has reset your graphics
>accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics
>driver commands." After three to five of these
instances,
>the garbled screen will come back twice in a row, then
>when it returns to normal, I get the above error, along
>with one telling me that it was unable to reset hardware
>rendering, and has switched to software rendering mode,
>and that it will only change back after the computer is
>restarted.
>
>The error occurs when a window is scrolled. It could be
>any window at all, it doesn't seem to be picky. In the
>course of writing this message, the act of advancing the
>text to the next line caused the error. From time to
>time, the error will actually lock the entire computer
up,
>and either freeze completely or dump me into a stop
>error. I don't always get an message from Windows when I
>restart, but when I do, it always has something to do
with
>a video driver. I remember once that the drawing engine
>stopped responding, and once that it got stuck in an
>infinite loop.
>
>I've contacted ATI by email twice about the matter, but
>have yet to receive a response. I have no way of calling
>them, as the only number they provide is Canadian. In my
>searches of the ATI website, I noticed that there had
been
>an issue with the TV tuner on their cards and hyper-
>threaded processors, but this seemed only to cause
trouble
>when the TV tuner was being used.
>
>I've updated all the drivers for my video card and
>motherboard, have used Windows Update to download all of
>Microsoft's patches, and have searched both sites for
>issues similar to mine, but to no avail.
>
>I am desperate for a solution to my problems!
>.
>

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