I have a problem with ATI 9000 Pro which is driving me nuts. I have
uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers at least 10 times in the last few days.
I use Win 98SE
and was using Catalyst 4.3 drivers since last February and everything was
working OK till a few days ago. I was playing a game (near the end of the
game)when it froze as it had done a couple of times near the same spot. I
rebooted and when I came back to desktop, it gave an error message "ATI
panel failed to initialize, or not configured properly". It has stayed that
way. I can't get out of 16 color. DirectX 9b which I've used all along, says
that Direct Draw is enabled and so is AGP texture, but Direct3D is disabled.
Device manager shows I have Radeon 9000, but the drivers are standard VGA. I
use Via 4 in 1 drivers vers. 4.35.

I had this same problem when I got the video card last Feb. Patrickp here
helped me out and I got things fixed and been OK, till now. BTW, I haven't
seen Patrickp here for a while.
I tried everything I can think of, and all I that is left to do is
re-format, which is my last resort, and a huge pain, and what if it doesn't
fix the problem?
Is my video card no good? Can anyone help me ?

Mary

"Mary" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a problem with ATI 9000 Pro which is driving me nuts. I have
> uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers at least 10 times in the last few
days.
> I use Win 98SE
> and was using Catalyst 4.3 drivers since last February and everything was
> working OK till a few days ago. I was playing a game (near the end of the
> game)when it froze as it had done a couple of times near the same spot. I
> rebooted and when I came back to desktop, it gave an error message "ATI
> panel failed to initialize, or not configured properly". It has stayed
that
> way. I can't get out of 16 color. DirectX 9b which I've used all along,
says
> that Direct Draw is enabled and so is AGP texture, but Direct3D is
disabled.
> Device manager shows I have Radeon 9000, but the drivers are standard VGA.
I
> use Via 4 in 1 drivers vers. 4.35.
>
> I had this same problem when I got the video card last Feb. Patrickp here
> helped me out and I got things fixed and been OK, till now. BTW, I haven't
> seen Patrickp here for a while.
> I tried everything I can think of, and all I that is left to do is
> re-format, which is my last resort, and a huge pain, and what if it
doesn't
> fix the problem?
> Is my video card no good? Can anyone help me ?
>
> Mary
>

A simple Google on that error message finds me this:
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Go to Display Properties
- Click the Advanced button
- Click the Troubleshooting tab
- Put the Hardware Acceleration slider to Full
- Apply/OK
- Reboot

NOTE: If you uninstall the drivers to install newer drivers later, for
whatever reason after you reboot after installing the new driver the
Hardware Acceleration slider will most likely have reverted to the
None state. So you'll have to reset it again.
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HTH,
Laurence (also 9000 on W98, but I keep Ghost backups for my C: partition!)


Ryan Bolger



> 2) I installed the Radeon 9000 ATI display driver (catalyst) I got error
> message "The ATI Control Panel failed to initialize because NO ATI
> driver installed, or ATI driver is not working properly. The ATI Control
> Panel will now exit".