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Arghhhhh.
After weeks of trouble-free operation, my HTPC is now completely useless!
Here's what happened. I retired the Radeon 8500 until gamma is fixed by buying a 7500 (powered by ATI). Installed it fairly easily with the included drivers and it was basically working fine, but I was having minor troubles with TTek and HiPix. So after some research on the forum I saw that the 6025 drivers were the most stable for Win2k, so I decided to install them to see if that solved the problem. Upon installing the drivers and re booting, I got a garbled screen (technical term). So, I reset, booted in safe mode, uninstalled, and tried again with the same result. Several more similar attempts were followed by my trying the original drivers again, as well as several other versions, all with the same result. More research on AVS suggested that perhaps I should boot to Safe Mode immediately after install and set the color depth and resolution as low as possible, but I'm not sure how to make it stick--safe mode is obviously 16 colors and 6x4...rebooting after playing with that always gave me the same result. BTW, when the screen is garbled, the pj is seeing 31.5k x 59.9k...obviously fully in range and totally standard.
Here's where it gets really weird:
The next thing I did (after uninstalling every app I had so painfully got working) was a complete re-install of win2k, Blew everything away and rebuilt from the ground up...installed only ActiveX8.1 and then the radeon drivers and had the same result!! I've now rebuilt 3 times, reseated the 7500, and done everything else I could think of to no avail. When I try to install the drivers directly from the wizard (rather than going through the ATI CD or self-launching install), the screen turns into red green and blue stripes as soon as the drivers are installed.
I am truly desperate...I have some friends coming over to watch a movie and they will mock me mercilessly should my expensive and time-consuming theater not be up and running;-).
ANY IDEAS???
System is: TBird 1.33, Asus Mobo, 256MB, Win2k, Radeon 7500, MAudio 24/96, Pstrip, HiPix. Display is Ehome 9501LC fed through Extron 202xi.
Thanks!
Charles
After weeks of trouble-free operation, my HTPC is now completely useless!
Here's what happened. I retired the Radeon 8500 until gamma is fixed by buying a 7500 (powered by ATI). Installed it fairly easily with the included drivers and it was basically working fine, but I was having minor troubles with TTek and HiPix. So after some research on the forum I saw that the 6025 drivers were the most stable for Win2k, so I decided to install them to see if that solved the problem. Upon installing the drivers and re booting, I got a garbled screen (technical term). So, I reset, booted in safe mode, uninstalled, and tried again with the same result. Several more similar attempts were followed by my trying the original drivers again, as well as several other versions, all with the same result. More research on AVS suggested that perhaps I should boot to Safe Mode immediately after install and set the color depth and resolution as low as possible, but I'm not sure how to make it stick--safe mode is obviously 16 colors and 6x4...rebooting after playing with that always gave me the same result. BTW, when the screen is garbled, the pj is seeing 31.5k x 59.9k...obviously fully in range and totally standard.
Here's where it gets really weird:
The next thing I did (after uninstalling every app I had so painfully got working) was a complete re-install of win2k, Blew everything away and rebuilt from the ground up...installed only ActiveX8.1 and then the radeon drivers and had the same result!! I've now rebuilt 3 times, reseated the 7500, and done everything else I could think of to no avail. When I try to install the drivers directly from the wizard (rather than going through the ATI CD or self-launching install), the screen turns into red green and blue stripes as soon as the drivers are installed.
I am truly desperate...I have some friends coming over to watch a movie and they will mock me mercilessly should my expensive and time-consuming theater not be up and running;-).
ANY IDEAS???
System is: TBird 1.33, Asus Mobo, 256MB, Win2k, Radeon 7500, MAudio 24/96, Pstrip, HiPix. Display is Ehome 9501LC fed through Extron 202xi.
Thanks!
Charles