AMD Radeon x800xt help please

[jannas]

Ok, after my usual annual reformat on my computer. I was re-installing my drivers as usual but I had a complication with the graphics card. The computer didn't accept the Radeoen drivers I got with on its CD and would not run Catalyst. I thought 'internet to the rescue' and got the right drivers from the website. No joy...


At this point, I thought to try the Omega drivers and they have optimised speed somewhat but thats all really.

Now, the problem is that once I turn on my computer, the device manager tells me that my X800 has a problem and not functioning properly. Thus, it won't let my play any games and runs the 'scrolling' function really slowly. a framerate of about 6 FPS. However, if I go into the drivers and simply re-install the same driver and get everything working with the display back up to 1280 x 1024, Everything is normal.

The strage part is that the 'display' function says the resolution is somewhere does at about 800 x 600 with 16 colours running. But in reality its at 1280 x 1024 with 32 bit colours active.

Any idea what the hell is wrong with this thing, Hijack this log on request...

Thanks in advance

 

[Rik]

Did you uninstall all previous graphics drivers?

 

[F1N3ST]

He reformatted lol.

 

[jannas]

The drivers all all gone, not a trace. I even used a tool I found on their site to make sure. I only installed the Omega drivers after I got rid of the first...

Any thing else I could be?

 

[Rik]

Exactly what windows version are you using?

 

[jannas]

Windows Xp media centre edition

 

[Sharkfood]

Did you forget to install your chipset/motherboard drivers?

 

[jannas]

Nope, they are all working happily. Since it works if I just re-install the grraphics drivers but forgets if I shut the computer down, its really annoying and confusing.

 

[jannas]

Shall I post a hijack this log? Your all so much more computer savvy than me...

 

[tweakboy]

Might need to run driver cleaner pro ,,

remove drivers,, reboot,,

then install official cat drivers from www.ati.com ,,

gl,

 

[jannas]

Ok, I'll try that but I'll let you know that catalyst has never worked for me. Only in safe mode would it boot up correctly... unusual problem this...

 

[Rik]

Get speedfan from the downloads section and use it to monitor temperatures, voltages, and use it to check out you hard drives S.M.A.R.T. characteristics!!

 

[jannas]

And that will help how?

Ok, update. I've used driver cleaner pro as instructed but it lost me my chipset drivers. I got those back on from the Ati CD and its not making any differance from how it used to work. Blasted thing!

Here is a hijackthis log, if it will help

 

[Rik]

That is of no use whatsoever, your log needs to be as an ATTACHMENT.

The reason i suggested speedfan is that it can show possible hard drive problems.

 

[jannas]

Like that?

My hard drive is fine according to Speedfan. Top performance and fitness

 

[Rik]

I can see no serious problems with you HJT log, however, some spyware can hide from HJT so you need to rename hijackthis.exe to analyzethis.exe then post a fresh HJT log.

 

[jannas]

There you go!

 

[jannas]

Great... I've been using the Driver cleaner pro and re-installing drivers and hoping it will stick but I keep getting a Zero display service error. A quick net search suggests that this is a driver conflict. However, I must have got rid of the conflict thanks to the handy driver program. Any ideas?

 

[Rik]

Whatever your problem is, it's not caused by spyware!!

What does dxdiag say??

 

[jannas]

The file ati2dvag.dll is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer.

Thats the only problem I could find, but I have been using the Omega Drivers recently just to test them out.