ATI crach in windows XP pro

[K-man]

I have had a few problems lately, Halo worked fine before I updated my BIOS,
but after that it crashed every time I played multiplayer. Then the new
CATALYST 3.10 drivers came out. I uninstalled the old drivers (3.9) and
deleted the leftover ATI folders an registry keys. My problem showed up when
I was trying to delete the leftover ATI files in the C:\Windows\system32
folder, three files remained, I deleted them, emptied my Recycle Bin, but
they popped back up.

This happened several times so I decided to install the driver anyways, now
my video card crashes every other minute (with and without VPU recover), I
decided to restore my machine, but that didn't work either.

I've updated ALL device drivers.

One last thing thoug, this is a strange part. I've experienced these kind of
crashes when I installed the chipset driver BEFORE the video card driver, I
used system restore to fix that problem, but could it be that these two
problems are related to eachother? ANY help will be appreciated.



Heres my hardware setup:

Mainboard: Mainboard S-478 Intel 875P ATX Audio GbLAN IEEE1394 Raid SATA
800MHz Retail

Processor: CPU Intel Pentium 4 mPGA-478 2.4GHz 800MHz 512kB Boxed

Memory: Geil 1.0GB (2x512MB) DDR PC3200 400MHz ULD CL2 5ns CHS Dual Channel
SPD 2,6-2,9

Video Card: VGA-Card Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB DDR AGP DVI TV-Out Retail Powered
By ATI

Soundcard: Audigy 2 PCI THX DD EX (6.1) DVD-Audio Retail

Haddisk: Harddisk 60.0GB IDE 7200RPM UDMA-100 3.5" DeskStar 180GXP

 

[Jerry]

Don't know why you removed the old ATI drivers before upgrading to the
latest. I've upgraded from Catalyst 3.5 to 3.6 to 3.7 to 3.8 to 3.9 to 3.10
one on top of the other; with NO PROBLEMS.

You only remove the OLD drivers if you're replacing the video card itself.

 

[Mcblazer]

ATI recommends you uninstall your old and install new
with antvirus off and any other programs that may be
running. They also have a program for completely removing
any ATI software to be sure your getting a clean install
of their drivers. It's available for download at their
site and is called Catalyst Uninstaller. It don't get
much easier than that! I don't know alot but I do try and
follow instruction. Try Add and Remove Programs again to
uninstall your current ATI Drivers and then run the
Catalyst Uninstaller to be sure. Then Reinstall 3.10.
Hope it helps...