A7N8X and ATI Radeon 9600 Pro torture

[Beth_abx]

Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help, I'm literally pulling out my hair in frustration.

System specs: Asus A7N8X, ATI Radeon 9600 pro 128, 3 sticks of 256mb DDR, Athlon XP 1600 cpu, 300 watt power supply, 80gb 7200rpm drive, 40gb 5400rpm drive, DVD drive, CDRW drive

My problem? I can't seem to get the video card working correctly. I've tried every version of the catalyst drivers from 3.7 on up. I've got the latest BIOS for my MB, I've tried disabling the 8x agp on it, in fact I've disabled/enabled every video related setting I can find in the BIOS.

The most common error I've gotten is that there appears to be a conflict with my video driver and drawing capability. I've tried the latest DirectX, I've tried older versions as well. I had my system running smoothly for a few hours tonight and was able to play some online games using the DirectX version and video drivers that came with my Video card - dated from April 2003. However, I eventually got an error as follows:

"The driver ati2dvag for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates."

Since this error, I haven't been able to do anything video intensive (ie online games). I figured that maybe since I had a version of DirectX that ATI obviously liked, I could perhaps install to a newer version of the ATI drivers, so I tried catalyst 3.9 which I've heard is one of the more stable. I'm now back to the drawing error message.

I'm also occasionally getting monitor out of range errors, where my monitor flashes to a black screen with a red window, then goes into sleep mode.

I've looked on both the ASUS and ATI sites, as well as countless forums, and tried everything suggested - nothing has worked. If anyone has any further suggestions, or something that has worked for them, I'd be ever so grateful - I'm just so upset with this at the moment - I've been trying for 3 days now to get this thing working correctly.

[FightingChance]

While you say you've tried every video card option in the BIOS, specifically have you disabled fastwrites?

[Shadow_419]

I had the same problem on my friends rig. Whenever the computer had to do something remotely graphic intensive, crash! Disabled fastwrites and bye-bye crashes.