nforce 2 + ATI = DEAD machine help please

[duhmez 0]

i am getitng this EXACT error with my new rig. Abit NF7 with nforce 2 chipset.

http://www.videocard-forum.com/ati/windows_2000_server_and_radeon_153571.html

 

Once any ati driver is loaded (8500LE radeon) I logon and the logon box goes away and comes back again and again, eventually i get in but no exe's will run whatsoever. I am imaging between dirver tests so far cat 3.2, 3.7, 3.10 all doing it. It's enraging me.

 

Windows 2000 server with SP4 DX 9b, newest nforce drivers from a 2 weeks ago. 1 hard drive one burner, 512 ram @333, barton 2500+ @ 333, nothing else in the machine.

bios settings all set to safe and or default, no overclockage anywhere.

[duhmez 0]

Fixed. It is ATI drivers coupled with another thing. I will splain. There was a system tweak to "enable large system cache" i first saw it in xsetup. It makes a pro workstation use the large system cache that server uses. Well since I installed server, it is enabled by default (its not a tweak for server it is default)

With this setting it caused this problem. When I launched xsetup and disabled it (making my server have a small pro type system cache it fixed.