Uninstall ATI drivers, reinstall from ATI site, NOT winupdate
"Rakoth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Been having some trouble with my PC these last two days, and I'm hoping
> someone can help with the last lingerig one.
>
> Yesterday, once Windows XP (Home version0 had booted up and brought up the
> desktop, I had a nasty error crop up: The instruction at "0x7c919c02"
> referenced memory at "0xad166b84." The memory could not be "read." Ok to
> terminate, cancel to debug. Clicking OK would leave my desktop
> background,
> but all the icons and the taskbar would disappear for a few seconds,
> reappear, and the erorr would just pop up again. Did a reboot and it went
> away, and I figured Windows might need an update or two; hit the updater,
> grabbed all the important stuff as well as the optional (Including,
> unwisely,
> an ATI Radeon 9600 thing, more on that shortly.) A reboot later, and the
> error returned. The desktop would be frozen, I couldn't get at the Start
> Menu while the error was up, but if I clicked OK and moved quick enough I
> could get through the Start Menu to my browser (Firefox) and I managed to
> navigate my way here. After trying a few things - Going into safe mode
> and
> running Ad-Aware, Spy Sweeper, Ewido, and AVG AntiVirus, disabling a few
> things in start-up, even trying a custom registry entry I saw here for a
> very
> similar problem - and booting up normal to no avail, I tried turning off
> the
> third-party plug-ins for IE as was mentioned in another thread with a
> similar
> problem; I'm not sure if it was that, or that and the other things,
> but -that
> problem seemed to have stopped.
>
> Unfortunately for me, it seemed like DirectX was corrupted, or my vid
> drivers were, or something, because when I tried to start a game
> (EverQuest 2
> in this case) it gave me a fatal error: EverQuest II has detected an
> unrecoverable error and must shutdown. <verify>
> E:\live\eq2\framework\core\devices\src\DirectX9RenderDevice.cpp (1059):
> Failed to create D3D/device for RADEON 9600 SERIES.
> Another game ended up saying something similar: graphic initilization
> error, requires min. DirectX 9.0c version and the latest graphic card
> driver.
> Now prior to these happenings, I had no problem running either game; in
> retrospect, I shouldn't have downloaded that updated mentioning something
> that MS has no business toying with, but hindsight is always 20/20. The
> EQ2
> error is particularly strange since the E: is my DVD-Rom drive. I have
> since
> used the Add/Remove Programs utility to uninstall my drivers and DL the
> latest one, DLing DirectX's latest version, and this doesn't seem to have
> fixed the problem. I'm not sure if it's related, but I've had an even
> more
> nasty and scary error crop when the blue Windows log-in screen should come
> up: lsass.exe error, An Invalid HANDLE was specified. That's came up a
> few
> times, but usually only after I installed the new driver for my card -
> After
> giving the interior of my system a good spritzing with compressed air, I
> haven't had it since, and aside from the 3D graphics not working,
> everything
> SEEMS fine now.
>
> Is there any suggestions to fix this graphics thing? The Radeon 9600 is,
> I
> think, about the best card my PC could handle, as she's a bit of an older
> beast from a few years back, so fishing for a new one is out, and System
> Restore doesn't seem to want to revert to anything in this month (3 times
> tried, 3 times denied.) I'm just hoping my poor ol' machine isn't on her
> last legs.
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