Interesting Problem with ATI software

[joe173]

I have a aiw 9600 xt video card. This card is about a year and a half odl. When I try to install my ati drivers from the cd furnished by ati, the setup page is in some language that I can not read. I think that it is russian or some Cyrillic writting. This started about 4 months ago. I have tried several times to load this page in english and from time to time I will get a couple of words in english, but not the entire page. I have tried to download all of ati's drivers on line and that is a nightmare. I am unable to find an ati e-mail site to ask them about this problem. Through trial and error I finally get everything loaded. Does anyone have any suggestions. I think that this will be my last ati video card.
thanks

 

[pkroks]

thats one of the reason why i choose nVidia!

 

[Tamste]

Got another problem with mine.
Updated driver and catalyst to latest version and ended up with the mouse pointer turning into a lined square whenever I was over text, and MSI PC Alert4 wouold not run (reported a monitoring fault).

Rolled back to previous version and these problems disappeared.

 

[kickoff3pm]

I have the same proble today after fitting a new HD and updating the driver for my 9600 pro. Latest drivers and the curser turns into a square box made up of rows narrow black lines when ever I move it over text or links. I can't roll-back because I only have XP default drivers to roll into so I guess I have to search out the CD. What a bag of chite !!

 

[mailpup]

You can still go to ATI's site and download older versions of drivers to try, new build or not. BTW, Nvidia has had their share of screwy drivers too.

 

[kickoff3pm]

Thanks for the reply but I did find the CD, I uninstalled the new drivers, rebooted back to the XP default and then installed the old drivers from the CDrom. Still got the problem so I can only assume XP didn't give up the drivers or they didn't uninstall properly. I'm not waiting to hear from ATI support.

 

[sllewe]

Try the new verison of the omega driver

 

[kickoff3pm]

Whats the omega driver, where can I get it and why would it work?

I downloaded the very latest from the ATI site.

 

[sllewe]

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

still based on cat drivers, but might work...

 

[kickoff3pm]

Hi again,

Thanks for all those who have tried to help, I did DL the drivers from http://www.omegadrivers.net/ but alass they had no effect on the problem.

However, I have resolved it.

After a lot of expermenting I discovered that if I disabled "Write Combining" the problem went away. Now I've no clue what "WC" is or does so if I have dropped the ball here perhaps someone can tell me ? Till then I am an happy bunny so far.

Once again thanks a lot to AtK SpAdE, mailpup and Tamste for posting his problem which led me here via google. Bye from Staffordshire England.