ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and Catalyst Problems

[NBK]

Hi

Everytime i install Catalyst 3.9 to 4.3 for an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, i
have problems. For example, it takes up to 1 minute to open the System
control panel. The Start Menu is unresponsive and slow to open. When
i exit Unreal Tournament 1999, the screen goes blank after viewing the
desktop. Also, The monitor reports that it is over range???? I am not
overclocking anything. The only driver that works is the Catalyst 3.4
Driver.

My setup: Windows XP Pro SP1, ASUS P4P800 Deluxe 1015 BIOS, Pentium4
3.06, 2x512 PC-3200 Crucial RAM, onboard sound, 3Com 905b NIC, ADS Pyro
Firewire card, Pioneer DVD-RW A04, Samsung CD-RW/DVD SM-352b, HP
Photosmart 7550, Umax 2200 scanner and ViewSonic A90f+.

Thanks in Advance
deXter

 

[Ben Pope]

Hi

Everytime i install Catalyst 3.9 to 4.3 for an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, i
have problems. For example, it takes up to 1 minute to open the System
control panel. The Start Menu is unresponsive and slow to open. When
i exit Unreal Tournament 1999, the screen goes blank after viewing the
desktop. Also, The monitor reports that it is over range???? I am not
overclocking anything. The only driver that works is the Catalyst 3.4
Driver.

Disable VPU recover.

Ben

 

[NBK]

Disable VPU recover.

Ben

Thanks i will try it. By the way what is VPU Recover?
NBK

 

[NBK]

Disable VPU recover.

Ben

I disabled VPU recover and i still have the issues.
NBK

 

[nothere]

Hi

Everytime i install Catalyst 3.9 to 4.3 for an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, i
have problems. For example, it takes up to 1 minute to open the System
control panel. The Start Menu is unresponsive and slow to open. When
i exit Unreal Tournament 1999, the screen goes blank after viewing the
desktop. Also, The monitor reports that it is over range???? I am not
overclocking anything. The only driver that works is the Catalyst 3.4
Driver.

That UT problem is an old one. Do you have all the patches installed?

 

[John Lewis]

Thanks i will try it. By the way what is VPU Recover?

Most likely a band-aid for driver crashes either due to timing-margin
failures with excess GPU temperatures or driver-bugs that Ati have not
been able to find and fix. The Official Words on VPU Recover on the
Ati web-site are pure weasel-words, but the apparent gist is that VPU
Recover senses and transparently restores failed communications betwen
the GPU and the CPU without having to restart the whole application or
system. What also gets dropped when VPU Recover is triggered is
obviously unknown.

Ben's advice is correct. It may or may not not get rid of your
problems, but at least it will not smoke-screen the root-cause if they

are still there and thus will not confuse the problem-solving.

John Lewis

 

[Dark Avenger]

Thanks i will try it. By the way what is VPU Recover?
NBK

Think about the software that promised that they would stop
applications from crashing.. VPU recover is like that... but just as
such software..it doesn't works!

 

[Ben Pope]

I disabled VPU recover and i still have the issues.

Every recent (since the XT release) driver has caused my start button to be
slow (I think it's transparency) - I disable VPU recover and it's fine.
Your problem must be elsewhere then.

Ben

 

[NBK]

That UT problem is an old one. Do you have all the patches installed?

I have all UT patches installed...
I reformatted and reinstalled Windows to no avail. I stil have the same
issue.
NBK

 

[JLC]

I have all UT patches installed...
I reformatted and reinstalled Windows to no avail. I stil have the same
issue.
NBK

Are you sure you have your motherboard drivers installed? This is the only
thing I can think of that could be causing this after everything else you
have tried. JLC

 

[Bob Johns]

Are you sure you have your motherboard drivers installed? This is the
only thing I can think of that could be causing this after everything
else you have tried. JLC

Something to try that worked for me.

Check your bios to see if you can adjust the AGP/PCI Frequency.

If so change it to manual.

Next Set AGP/PCI Frequency (MHZ) to 66.66/33.33.

When I did this I solved problems I was having with my 9800Pro and out of
range.

Bob J.
Guam U.S.A.

 

[NBK]

Something to try that worked for me.

Check your bios to see if you can adjust the AGP/PCI Frequency.

If so change it to manual.

Next Set AGP/PCI Frequency (MHZ) to 66.66/33.33.

When I did this I solved problems I was having with my 9800Pro and out of
range.

Bob J.
Guam U.S.A.

Uninstalling Grisoft AVG antivirus software seems to have resolved the
issues.
NBK

 

[JLC]

Uninstalling Grisoft AVG antivirus software seems to have resolved the
issues.
NBK

I use AVG also and have had no problems. Maybe you could just turn off it's
monitoring and use it manually. That's what I do. I don't like having a
virus scanner running in the background. I just scan everything I DL before
I install it. I just found a virus this moring in one of my DL'ed files.
It's important to scan your files. JLC

 

[Bob Johns]

I use AVG also and have had no problems. Maybe you could just turn
off it's monitoring and use it manually. That's what I do. I don't
like having a virus scanner running in the background. I just scan
everything I DL before I install it. I just found a virus this moring
in one of my DL'ed files. It's important to scan your files. JLC

I use AVG and have it running all the time.

Bob J.
Guam U.S.A.

 

[NBK]

I use AVG and have it running all the time.

Bob J.
Guam U.S.A.

I turned off the AVG sercice and everything is fine.
NBK

 

[blah]

Using AVG 6 and never had any driver install problems.

 

[NBK]

Using AVG 6 and never had any driver install problems.

The Catalyst driver will install w/o issue, but it would take upto 90
seconds to access the System Control Panel. AVG6 was the culprit for
me. I simply turned it off in services.msc.
NBK
NBK

 

[blah]

blah wrote:

seconds to access the System Control Panel. AVG6 was the culprit for
me. I simply turned it off in services.msc.
NBK
NBK

Hmmm, strange I just tried accessing System Control panel and all tabs on
the display settings and whether AVG was running or not didn't make a
difference.
Are you low on mem or disk space?