W2k Pro. Video Driver problem from Hell!

[dieselBREATH]

I know this is probably simple, but it has me stumped.

I simply tried to install a new and updated video driver
for my ATI video card. That was when things went bad.
After re booting, I tried to adjust my display settings by right clicking on the desktop and left clicking properties. When I selected properties, I recieved the the blue screen of death with the following message:

DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANCELLING_PENDING_OPERATIONS
This driver may be at fault: VGA.DLL.

Of course ther are some hex adresses also.

I have tried almost everything I can. Unitsall the driver, reboot, re-install the driver. With out safe mode, with safemode. Up, down backwards and sidewards I have tried in vain. In device manager, it shows the ATI driver is istalled and ok, however the ATI software never seems to load into the sys tray. Again, as alway try to change the display setting and you get the Blue Screen of death that I never thought I would see in W2K. HA!

Any help would EXTAORDINARILLY appreciated!

DB

 

[mcconmw]

Have you tried loading sp2? It might help.

 

[FUZ]

have you tried the emergency repair process???

-FuZ

if you did and that still didn't help. give me a email, there is 1 other thing you can try, but I only want you to try it if you have an emergency repair disk.. fuzmp3@yahoo.com

 

[dieselBREATH]

Like an idiot, I do not have an ERD. I have also installed
SP2....NO luck.

 

[safraser]

I'm sorry if this sounds simple but have you try re-insatlling the old drives

 

[brettums]

kill the drivers in device manager

when it says there is new hardware and tries to install the current drivers on the machine specify to use the winnt\INF folder to take the default drivers from there......

also look and see if there is a folder on the root of your drive where you extracted the new drivers that do not work, if you do find it, delete it!

 

[dieselBREATH]

I have tried all of that. However, when windows boots up, it does not give me a chance to "choose" any thing. It installs the correct drivers for the ATI card, but never uninstalls the VGA.DLL.

 

[dsturgeon]

I had this problem after installing the latest drivers for an integrated HP video card. The install was perfect on one
machine, the second machine was not so good. After trying everything I could possibly imagine, I had to re-image the machine......

 

[MEREDOTH]

TRY LAST KNOW GOOD CONFIG... FROM THE F8 SELECTION AT START UP...

 

[dasmith]

On a side note:

I just installed an update to my ATI driver as provided from Microsoft Windows Update and immediatesly had problems with video glitches in one program.

Tried reinstalling directx8 with no improvement.

After reinstalling the drivers downloaded from ATI the problem disappeared.

 

[dweinshel]

try unistalling the drivers for the video board. Then clean out all registry references to same (using all appropriate precautions). reboot, reinstall the drivers. usually helps.

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi,
I have the same problem.
I'm using windows 2000 server with ati display adapter.
Did you solve it?
If you did please advise me at:
efi@eyeblaster.com

Thanks,
Efi

 

[Gremlin256]

ATI has a problem with drivers for WIn2K, Ppl at a lanfest always had probelm with the drivers from ATI for win2k. Once i had ati rage 128 pro. When I installed the card win2k would try to install it's own driver which of course is wrong. Went into safe mode and made it choose default vga adapter and as i logged installed the driver for ati card and it worked fine. Hope that helps

 

[nessie]

I've got the same problem, with a Matrox G400. Installing older drivers(which were WHQL certified) initially solved the problem, but it started again recently(god knows why). It only happens when you click on the 'settings' tab in display properties.