I'm hoping this is the right forum for this post since it is a HTPC. Any help would be VERY apprectiated.
I am having an issue upgrading my ATI Catalyst drivers for my Radeon 9600XT, I currently am running Cat v4.5. I have an Asus P4S800 motherboard with latest 1009 bios, P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB DDR, with the Radeon 9600XT, with XP SP2. I have a Sony VPLHS20 projector hooked DVI-DVI and a LCD with A/D card on the RGB port of the 9600XT. Everything has been working fine.
My Upgrade Attmept:
I have uninstalled both the v4.5 ATI control panel and ATI drivers in the Add/Remove software, rebooted and the 640x480 screen comes up. I launch the Cat v4.9 or Cat XP4.1 latest control-panel/driver upgrade and the install seems to go fine. I then reboot and the BIOS POST scripts show, then XP boot logo comes up fine. The problem is that the screen goes blank/black after that....before the user login screen. Since the analog LCD connected to the RGB port is DPMS it goes blank and stays that way since it must not be getting a signal. ATI's webite has a incident report for this and says to check the AGP settings in my BIOS (their OK) or that their SMARGART utility is hanging the boot process and I should reboot and SMARGART will be bypassed. The only way I can reboot is to push the hard power button and kill the power....CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't seem to work. When I power up again the same thing happens. The only other point to note is I do not have the DVI projector turned on.....only the analog LCD.
Can anyone help ? I'm really stuck on what to do. ATI online help has been useless......they sent me to the same URL three times now.
Thanks !
I am having an issue upgrading my ATI Catalyst drivers for my Radeon 9600XT, I currently am running Cat v4.5. I have an Asus P4S800 motherboard with latest 1009 bios, P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB DDR, with the Radeon 9600XT, with XP SP2. I have a Sony VPLHS20 projector hooked DVI-DVI and a LCD with A/D card on the RGB port of the 9600XT. Everything has been working fine.
My Upgrade Attmept:
I have uninstalled both the v4.5 ATI control panel and ATI drivers in the Add/Remove software, rebooted and the 640x480 screen comes up. I launch the Cat v4.9 or Cat XP4.1 latest control-panel/driver upgrade and the install seems to go fine. I then reboot and the BIOS POST scripts show, then XP boot logo comes up fine. The problem is that the screen goes blank/black after that....before the user login screen. Since the analog LCD connected to the RGB port is DPMS it goes blank and stays that way since it must not be getting a signal. ATI's webite has a incident report for this and says to check the AGP settings in my BIOS (their OK) or that their SMARGART utility is hanging the boot process and I should reboot and SMARGART will be bypassed. The only way I can reboot is to push the hard power button and kill the power....CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't seem to work. When I power up again the same thing happens. The only other point to note is I do not have the DVI projector turned on.....only the analog LCD.
Can anyone help ? I'm really stuck on what to do. ATI online help has been useless......they sent me to the same URL three times now.
Thanks !