ATI Radeon All In Wonder 9600 XT boot to safe mode problem and blue screen

[Joe Tansey]

I have installed a new 9600 XT. There are a couple of problems. If I
try to boot to safe mode, the screen will go black and I get a
message:
Out of range
set monitor to 1280x1024, 60 hertz refresh

These are the settings of the monitor, HP Pavilion f1903
There is nothing on the screen but black and the message. Monitor
menu will not work so I have to boot to regular mode.

Also was getting a blue screen every once in awhile. Message on
screen disappears to fast to read but it is a driver problem. I did
have an Nvidea card installed and could not unistall the drivers
before I installed the Radeon. Have tried to manually remove all the
Nvidea drivers. I now have the Omega drivers for Ati cards installed.
Blue screen has not come up for a couple of days but still can not
boot to safe mode.

OS: XP pro, SP2
Pentium 4, 2.4 mH processor
ASUS P4SDX mainboard
Sound Blaster Extigy sound card
2 gig ram
2 SATA hard drives, SATA Plextor DVDR/CDR drive
3 External USB 2 hard drives

 

[Guest]

You need to go through Control Panel, Display to set the system display
properties to that which is acceptable to the Monitor itself.

Changing the properties via the monitor's on screen menu is not changing the
system properties.

 

[namniar]

ATI has a removal tool on their website (I believe gets rid of anything ATI
related from your system) maybe Nvidea has something similar. You may wish
to remove the ATI software/drivers as well and reload it in vgamode.

Uninstall antivirus before removing and reinstalling ATI software (quote
from their website).

Pardon my ignorance, but what are Omega drivers? This is a built by ATI
card not powered by ATI, right?

r.

 

[DL]

Nvidea drivers often uninstalled in add/remove dialogue

 

[namniar]

Same with ATI. The utility I spoke of is for incomplete and/or problem
removals. I have personally never had to use it.

r.

 

[David Hollway [MVP]]

I have installed a new 9600 XT. There are a couple of problems. If I
Also was getting a blue screen every once in awhile. Message on
screen disappears to fast to read but it is a driver problem. I

To give you a chance to read the blue-screen error text, configure your
system to NOT reboot when a STOP error occurs.
Right-click on My Computer icon, select Properties, select Advanced and then
under "Startup and Recovery" click Settings. On the ensuing dialog box
untick "Automatically restart" and click OK.

This should give you chance to read the text next time an error occurs, and
with luck diagnose the cause.
Hope this helps.

 

[Joe Tansey]

Omega drivers at http://www.omegadrivers.net/
Supposed to be better drivers for ATI cards than ATI drivers.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

They are simply an enhanced version of the ATI drivers. ATI's drivers
come out of the box for better synthetic benchmarking scores at the cost
of image quality and is often limited in its options.

The Omega Drivers have simply been edited to allow even laptops to use
them and focuses more on quality of image and keeps the gamer in mind
instead of some benchmark

 

[namniar]

Thanks Joe & Nathan

r.

They are simply an enhanced version of the ATI drivers. ATI's drivers
come out of the box for better synthetic benchmarking scores at the cost
of image quality and is often limited in its options.

The Omega Drivers have simply been edited to allow even laptops to use
them and focuses more on quality of image and keeps the gamer in mind
instead of some benchmark