Radeon 8500LE Lock Up and Rebooting

[Xterror]

I have a Radeon 8500LE in my New PC (Oct -2002). I am running a P4, 2.4GHz, 512 Ram.

It worked fine for a week or so them stared locking up. I took it back for service and they havent been able to find the problem.

They Reinstalled the drivers trying the ATI cataylyst 2.2 and 2.3 drivers with no luck. They even said they tried a different viceo card and still had the same problem, not sure of this.

I took it home last night and reinstalled windows XP Pro and the windows deiver was stable but soon as i tried the ATI driver the same thing ..it locked up. Once it restared it jsyats the driver was responsbile on the erro report.

Anyone overcome a problem like this?

 

[bluescreen77]

Try to:
-Check your BIOS settings (VGA & RAM settings)
-Update your BIOS
-Update the Chipset drivers

*bluescreen77
"You learn as long as you live..."

 

[gargouille]

Go to Device Manager and find the video card and under properties there's an option to roll back the drivers.
Do it. IF the WinXP drivers are stable, let them be.

There's a handy feature in WinXP called System Restore.
Any time you're making major changes...establish a set point with System Restore (while things are running well).
Then make your changes and if things don't work out it's a simple matter of restoring the Set Point.

I guess you don't have a service agreement with them?

They won't at least warranty the machine to work for more than 30 days?

 

[Xterror]

This system was custom ordered and update when i bought it in early october. I therefore dont expect updates to BIOs, chip set etc..is the problem.

BIOS setting has been checked but not sure what you mean by checking ram?

Thanks to all who reply..

 

[Xterror]

I found my soluiton. I needed the service pack 1 from microsoft.

It appears my hadrware was much newer them my XP version.

Thanks to those who responded...