Monitor loses signal with Graphics Card

[Aaron]

Have you ever experienced a time when you load something full screen (DirectX display test, Winamp visulization full screen) that your monitor loses signal with the graphics card? The monitor goes on standby and the computer does nothing, CTRL ALT DEL does nothing, and you end up having to do a cold reset. Then... the Windows XP boot screen appears... but the meter stops, it never carries on loading. - The only way to fix this would be to go to safe mode, restart, then it will load windows xp without a problem.

If this has happened to you, then reply.

[Aaron]

After doing a bit more testing in the last 2 hours, I've traced it down to a graphics driver problem. Only one thing I can say - The Official ATI Radeon drivers version 3276 on the ATI.com site is crap!! I installed the win2k driver on win2k and the same problem occurs!!

So, on XP, I rolled-back to my previous radeon drivers, which were working perfectly until I installed that official 3276 driver. But that didn't seem to work very well, the problem was still there and it was stuck in the OS. So I tried to update over with my working radeon drivers, still no go. Format Time. :cry

And... on Win2k, there's no roll-back feature like XP has, so I updated over the offical 3276 with some old radeon beta driver. The problem is gone!

I would have expected XP to be better at driver-removal than win2k, but it ain't! IMO if you wanted to remove a driver properly on XP, ya gotta format, and that sucks!

[babis]

**** sorry to hear that.. (formatting ...) :cry

I hate formatting... I try to only do it 1-2x/yr

I think it's just some drivers don't uninstall(rollback) well.

I've used the rollback a lot of times with nvidia's drivers...

from 21.xx to the 22.xx (life saver....)

:blueteam

[Drewdatrip]

Have you ever experienced a time when you load something full screen (DirectX display test, Winamp visulization full screen) that your monitor loses signal with the graphics card? The monitor goes on standby and the computer does nothing, CTRL ALT DEL does nothing, and you end up having to do a cold reset. Then... the Windows XP boot screen appears... but the meter stops, it never carries on loading. - The only way to fix this would be to go to safe mode, restart, then it will load windows xp without a problem.

This use to happen to me when my system was overclocked too much. If your Comp is OCed then bumb it down a few notches and it will most likely work fine. Im using the same drivers and i havent noticed anything like this...so im not sure as to what is going on.

-drew

[Aaron]

Its not overclocked at all. I have to use the old 3211 beta radeon drivers. Surprisingly they do well in benchmarks and play my games smoothly

1.3GHz AMD Athlon DDR Processor

512MB SDRAM DDR 266MHz

Microstar 6380 K7T 266 Pro (Not flashed)

ATI Radeon 64MB DDR (Using 3211 drivers at the moment

Creative SB Live! Series (November 29th drivers)

DUAL 38GB IBM 7,200rpm Hard Drives

LG 12xDVD 40xCD-ROM

Plextor 16x12x40 CD-RW

Genius Fast Ethernet 10/100 NIC

Belinea 17" Monitor (Installed as Plug and Play monitor)

It only seems to lose signal when an application or game is put to full screen in 640x480, like the DirectX display test does, and Red Alert 2 Installation, and a newly installed Thief II demo (which was on 640x480 by default) It was all working when I started using my old drivers again.

[lfotto]

I am having the same problem with my Radeon card. It occurs when I try running one of the games that came with the Plus Pack for XP. It brings up the main window, but after that if I hit play or even help it crashes. (the hyperbowl is good, it is the other one.) It just resets the monitor and I have to reboot. I re-installed but still same problem. I have had no problems running videos with media player though. I have tried slowing down my monitor refresh from 85 to 75 to see if that would do anything but it didn't. Microsoft update site had me install those drivers twice since I installed XP pro. Don't figure. Any suggestions?:cry

[Aaron]

The only way to fix it is to use the beta 3211 drivers. It might still be on Rage3d.com if you're lucky. The Radeon 3276 and beta 3281 causes the monitor to go off.