Hi Guys First time here
I've checked, and my problem is not
listed in Radeon technical issue, game issue,
multimedia issue, nor MicroSoft search base. I've read
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/3179.html
and searched through www.ati.com with the error
message I saw. But, no topic mentions my problems.
Here is a detailed hardware and software environment
of my computer with problem description, Thanks a
lot for reading it:
----- Hardware decription
Powered By ATI Radeon 8500 128MB RAM
ASUS A7V333 motherboard
North Bridge Chipset: VIA KT333
South Bridge Chipset: VIA VT8233A
AMD Athlon XP1900+ CPU
512MB DDR SDRAM
----- graphics-related BIOS & setting
--- BIOS:
ASUS version 1011 (latest)
--- Setings:
Graphics Aperature Size: 128MB
AGP Bus Performance: Optimal
(only Optimal/Turbo, default is Optimal)
AGP Capbility: 4X Mode
AGP Drive Strength AUTO
AGP Performance Control: Disabled
AGP Fast Write Control: Disabled
Video Memory Cache Mode: UC
(only UC/UCWC, default is UC)
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop: Disabled
----- Software installed & Drivers
Windows2000 Advenced Server English Version ServicePack3
Internet Explorer 6 (also tried 5, but not working either)
DirectX 8.1
--- Drivers:
VIA chipset 4 in 1 drivers version 4.42(a) (latest)
----- Problem Description
Radeon 8500 driver seems to have a compatibility
problem with Win2000 Advenced Server. After
installing it, Internet Explorer is usually the
first program that cannot be properly initialized
to open. After IE fails to open, I can not open any
other things, such as NotePad or Windows Explorer.
Then it pops up the following error message:
"The application fail to initialize properly
(0xc0000142 ) Application Error."
The problem won't appear, if I uninstall the ATI
display driver, or run the window in safe mode.
I have tried both the latest ATI display driver
and the one of previous verion. Both has the same
problem. They're the following:
1. w2k-radeon-5-13-01-6118-efg (latest)
2. w2k-ref-7-72-020524m-004274c
Finis
