OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!

[txrocco@sbcglobal.net (ATS - Patrick Bureau)]

I agree I have 3 machines here with XP and I only use ATI since ealy 80's
and I guess I got used to handling their poor delivery system for windows
for drivers, make sure your motherboard has latest bios update then  drivers
for everythign else, do not install CDROm drivers, but set card to be VGA
16Bit card then install drivers from web site should solve your problem, it
has for all my various ATI cards I have here including my Radeon 7500, and
ATI Radeon Wonder.

ATS - Patrick Bureau - txrocco@sbcglobal.net


=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
=>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Joe Doty
=>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:20 PM
=>To: Euroroc II; Jeff Toomasson; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
=>Subject: RE: OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!
=>
=>
=>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
=>
=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: Euroroc II [mailto:flaatr@yahoo.com]
=>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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