Programatorul 0 Posted March 4, 2005 Well here is my problem. After I update my graphic drivers, office crashes in about 2 min after open. So everithing's ok with office while I keep my original drivers installed, but I can't play some new games without the new ones. In fact, when i run some games (for example "Prince of Persia Warrior Within") with the old drivers it happend the same thing as with office with the new drivers: everithing goes black and nothing responds. I mention that this happens both on win2000 and xp (not on win 98). Both OfficeXp and Office2003 give me the same problem. I tried using the new drivers, but with no Hardware Acceleration. Still doesn't work. Someone, please help cuz right now I have to uninstall and install the right version of drivers every time I want to either work in office or play. My video card is: Ati Radeon 9100 Atlantis (sapphire) My mainboard is: Matsonic MS8308EP(266) My proccesor is: AMD Duron 1GHz Share this post Link to post
ScinteX 0 Posted March 4, 2005 Hi, Just a thought but have your tried installing just the ATI graphic driver? I remember that there are 2 options on the ATI site for the Radeon drivers- one of them needs the .net framework and all of the bloat that comes with that.... maybe its causing a problem. So, maybe the driver labelled "driver only" would help? I would post a link but for some odd reason i cant get onto the ATI site!! Share this post Link to post
ScinteX 0 Posted March 4, 2005 Found the link for XP: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-09-041221m-020455c.exe Share this post Link to post
Programatorul 0 Posted March 5, 2005 Tried that and there's no change ;( Share this post Link to post
peterh 1 Posted March 5, 2005 Did you uninstall ATI Device Driver from ADd/Remove Programs BEFORE installing the new version! If not, then remove all existing drivers and start again. Share this post Link to post
Wilhelmus 1 Posted March 5, 2005 Boot up in safe mode, remove the ati drivers and display adapter device from device manager, then boot back in and Windows will/should redetect the adapter, install with new drivers. Share this post Link to post
Programatorul 0 Posted March 5, 2005 again no change! this is getting annoing! i think my only sollution is to change my graphic card. :x Share this post Link to post
Wilhelmus 1 Posted March 6, 2005 Does this occur in safe mode? Have you tried to install latest the omega drivers for ATI? http://www.omegadrivers.net/ Update chipset and motherboard drivers. Share this post Link to post
Programatorul 0 Posted March 9, 2005 No this is not occuring in safe mode. Where can I find the omega drivers? One more thing. I watched what is happening more carefully and it seems that this is not occuring if I don't work with equations in that document (apparently). Very odd. Share this post Link to post
Programatorul 0 Posted March 12, 2005 here's a change: the drivers i told u about as being the latest were from december 2004. now i took the latest drivers and installed them and now i have a crash at windows start up! cool! ( so windows 2000 freezes at: "applying personal setting". got to enter safe mode and uninstall them. the same problem with the omega drivers Share this post Link to post
