Previous card ATI 9200 SE/series.

No problems what soever with the previous card.

System: XP pro 32- SP3

Asus P5VD1-X mainboard, 2GB DDR Ram in 2 slots, Intel 775 3.2ghz dual core processor. 350W powersupply. 2 harddrives, pushed Virtual memory to like the highest it can let me.

PC is always overheating, but it hardly crashes due to it unless outside is realllly hot. But that is with the previous card. With the 4350hd however… there is nothing i can do but play games… Plays perfectly with left 4 dead and flatout ultimate carnage. other open GL games that ate the previous card.. run flawlessly… but simple tasks like rightclicking on photo’s and zoomin on photos, watching AVI, MOV, etc movies, scrolling text Files… the machine freezes almost immediately, and always gets an unresponsive error from the 4350.
I have been diag. the problem. i Realised that it has something to do with layers and overlays and partial transpariencies. E.g. menu shadows, Faded menu animations. and menu’s appearing over photo’s and movies screens[rightclicks]. Therefore i tried to push the whole movie thing using a 3D rendered option in my movieplayer.. worked however 3 mins of video is all i got b4 it started again. So tested more. Winamp skins, dragging windows around and fullscreen- window stress testing…. Epic FAIL!! Its the layering and overlaying task handlin of the cards… things like Aero and such would fail quickly, i refuse to try it.

Someone told me it was my DDR Ram, because its DDR on my board and DDR2 on the card. its not keepin up WITH the card. BUT Y would it cause the card to hang IN my system and not IN games which push it harder?

My solution was to turn the card’s clockin down[underclock it]
Then go in troubleshooting in “display adapters” menu from the desktop and turn off the Direct draw… yes.. turn it off… and it even worked better with the direct 3d off also… but here is the F’d up part. no 3d gaming. and all movies worked without fail… isnt that retarded… Now to test photoshop and illustrator capabilities…

Hope it works out for you, and it doesn’t get worse.

One thing I’ve noticed that may be a coincidence but seems to help. I dl’d Rivatuner and pushed the gpu to 750Mhz. I thought the constant switching from 500 to 750 that the card does normally might be causing the error. It still crashes but it seems to be less frequent now.

I estimate I’ve spent about 30 hours trying to figure this out.

I have a custom machine built for me by my brother which has lasted longer than any commercial machine that I have owned. It was starting to slow down and experience some problems so I just wiped the hd clean and reinstalled everything. I downloaded an ATI driver for the video card (Radeon 9800 series)and everything seemed ok except that I couldn’t get my favorite game to function quite the way it was before.

I had a couple of additional installs to do but both said I needed SP2 to install so I downloaded SP2. The next time I tried to open an email with a Media Player attachment, I got the blue screen and the “ati2dvag” infinite loop message and here I am.

Rather than get caught in another loop, i.e. trying to find fixes, does it work to just purchase and install a video card from a different manufacturer? I’ve read a couple of letters from people who stated they did this but they don’t say whether or not it works. Given ATI’s apparent refusal to deal with this problem, I’m done with them.

Steve