BSoD after installing driver

[Storm_Fish]

Hey everyone, I'm running on Windows XP with a Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 256.. Well, yesterday I woke up and had no internet access. After a bit of trying to fix things, my computer started to hang up. I hadn't formatted in a while, and it was about time I did. So I formatted and reinstalled windows, everything seemed to go fine. I installed a few drivers, including the new catalyst driver. After resetting, I am on my desktop for a few seconds and BAM blue screen of death. I have since formatted again and ONLY installed the catalyst driver, same results.

It tells me its dumping physical memory, and I get the following error: "STOP 0x0000007E(0x00000005,0x00000000,0xF7C8270C,0xF7C8240C)"

If I boot into safe mode and remove the driver, I can boot up normally again. Some people have told me to remove and swap around my memory and such, and I have to no avail. I've googled the 0x0000007E error a bunch, but can't find much that applies to my specific situation.

If anyone has any idea, I'd be very happy to hear them! Thanks.

 

[vegasgmc]

Try an different Catalyst driver. I had a lot of problems with 4.10 and 4.12.

 

[Storm_Fish]

I tried an older one.. I forget what one now, and some other non catalyst, or at least thats what I thought it was. Same problem. I hope my video card isn't damaged, or something similar. Seems odd that it works until I update the driver.

 

[Storm_Fish]

Well, this can't be good at all. I swapped my 9800 Pro with an 8500 that was in my other computer.. Updated the driver, and it worked just fine.. Then I put the 9800 Pro in the other comp, and after updating that driver crashing just the same... So apparently my video card is damaged? Is there any other possibilities? Anyone?

 

[vegasgmc]

There is a chance the card is bad, especially if its a Saphire or Powercolor.