OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!

[Joe.Doty@lcnetwork.com (Joe Doty)]

Negative.  We use XP Pro on every workstation here at my office, and I
personally use it for development.  It is rock solid.

The problem lies with ATI's poor driver support.  I have an ATI Radeon
8500, it took me a while to get the problems with that ironed out.  I
would recommend going to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and making
sure all of your other hardware's drivers are updated (mainly chipset).
I would also flash the BIOS with the latest version.  Lastly, make sure
you get the most recent driver for the card from ATI's website.

Joe Doty
IT/Development
joe@lcnetwork.com=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Euroroc II [mailto:flaatr@yahoo.com]=20
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:09 AM
To: Jeff Toomasson; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!

Best fix to XP is to install 2000... XP is Windows for Dummies (well
isn't every version?)

-my 0.01 (Not even woth 0.02)
-RGK-

At 03:43 PM 12/22/02 -0800, Jeff Toomasson wrote:


I've been trying to load up the drivers for my video card (ATI Radeon
7500) after wiping the HD clean loading up XP Pro and it hangs during
restart while it's supposedly running "system testing" (according to the
ATI install program). The XP Pro logo comes on and the little status
indicator freezes on its third pass.

I've tried going through ATI's tech support but not really finding
anything there. I haven't tried MSN yet, but that's my next stop

The card came with the PC when I got it from the guy who bought my M3.
He's actually a tech there and this card could be a beta (could explain
why the device manager cannot ID it.)

Another kick in the stomach is that he also gave me an AIW 32MB card but
I just noticed that it doesn't have the normal 16-pin interface port
that older cards have so I can't test it with that one...

I'm running a Sony VAIO 1.3GHz P4 with 256MB RAM so there shouldn't be
any problems there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Jeff



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