ati2dvag infinite loop bluescreen (9700mobility / Sony Notebook vgn-s2xp)

[hellsurfy]

Hello,

on my Sony-vaio-laptop I encounter severe problems with the ati2dvag-driver.
The Computer hangs and a bluescreen appears with a message that says
something about the ati2dvag-driver who is presently in an infinite loop.

The only thing to get my computer to run is to switch the "processor to AGP"
connection to an "PCI to PCI bridge".

But here I loose all the advantages and speed of the graphics card.
Its mobility ati9700 and the laptop is a Sony vgn-s2xp with 1Gig Mem.

I searched all discussion forums but noone could really help.
Sony does not provide a new graphicsdriver (I called the techsupport but
they couldnt help)

Has anyone a clue ?

 

[First of One]

ATI2DVAG is the file used by the SmartGART feature in ATI's drivers to
detect the system's AGP capability.

Go to Start -> Run and type

services.msc

Locate the item called ATISmart or something, open its properties, and
toggle between "automatic" and "disabled".

Did you recently f--- with AGP settings in BIOS?

 

[hellsurfy]

thnx for your answer...
ati hotkey poller is the only ati-related file I could find at services.msc

I didn't change the anything in the bios.

do you have any other idea ?

 

[First of One]

Disable "VPU Recover" in the ATi control panels.

If that doesn't work:

Uninstall SmartGART using the uninstaller utility, it's the second one in
the page:

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/misc/catalystutils.html

If your BIOS gives you the option, turn off Fast Writes and Sideband
Addressing, and set AGP speed to 4x (not 8x).

If nothing else works, there exist newer Catalyst packages with the ini file
edited so it can install on laptops. You'll have to look for them on the web
(not hard to find). Make a system restore point, then install the latest
Catalyst drivers.

 

[hellsurfy]

Thank you very much for your help and patience...

Unfortunately I do not have "VPU Recover" in my Ati-Controlpanel.
When trying to uninstall Smartgart it said, there is no smartgart to
uninstall.
My Phoenix-Bios does not have any options about AGPspeed

and last but not least... the catalystdrivers I found are not for mobile
computers, so I am not sure if I should give it a try...
....but maybe...

If you have any other idea, I would really appreciate your help.

THNX
hellsurfy

 

[First of One]

Thank you very much for your help and patience...

Unfortunately I do not have "VPU Recover" in my Ati-Controlpanel.
When trying to uninstall Smartgart it said, there is no smartgart to
uninstall.
My Phoenix-Bios does not have any options about AGPspeed

Then perhaps the "infinite loop" problem is caused by the lack of
SmartGART... The only way to install SmartGART is to get it along with new
drivers, see below.

and last but not least... the catalystdrivers I found are not for mobile
computers, so I am not sure if I should give it a try...

You are not looking in the right places. ATi's web site will not have them.
Make a restore point in XP, then install the Omega drivers here:

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

 

[hellsurfy]

Hi First of One,

here is what I did: I made a restore point. Then I uninstalled the
atidrivers with drivercleaner.
Thereafter I installed the newest omega rad_w2kxp_omega_2597a.exe.
After the reboot it looked good.
I checked via directx9 that the agp was working and it did !!!
Then I started unreal-tournament2004. with starting the game, the laptop
crashed...
Thereafter several reboots where unsuccsessful.
I restored the system with the Microsoftrestorepoint funktion.
And now I'm where I started before...

Are there any other drivers I can try ?
THNX
hellsurfy

 

[First of One]

UT2004 (and some other games) does a hardware detection the very first time
you run it. Thereafter, if you make "significant" changes to hardware or
settings, you need the game to redetect your hardware configuration.

Don't quote me on this, but if you delete UT2004.INI and USER.INI from the
UT2004/System directory, the game should re-do the device detection the next
time you start up the game. Just back up the two files first in case it
doesn't work...

Do you have other games to try?

 

[hellsurfy]

The bluescreen came back !

The only thing to get that vaio running, is to switch "Intel(r) 82855PM
Processor to AGP Controller-3341" to: "PCI Standard-PCI-To-PCI-Bridge".

Do you have any other idea why the AGP does not work with the ati2dvag ?

THNX again
Hellsurfy

 

[mc767]

:x - No solution i'm afraid, but same problem with Fujitsu Siemens
Amilo D 1845 (ATI mobility 9700). Now on second computer but same
problem.

The fujitsu-siemens has a very limited set of BIOS options which does
not help.

I will continue to try suggestions here and elsewhere to see if we can
get a fix.

 

[robertpwatson]

9700 mobility - bios change

Just updated bios and s2xp started crashing. Graphics driver problem solved by going into bios and changing 'lcd screen expansion' from 'no' to 'yes'