ati2dvag + XP service pack 2 (sp2) infinite loop Mobility Radeon 9700

[carl0s]

ati2dvag.dll + XP service pack 2 (sp2) infinite loop Mobility Radeon 9700

This is just impossible. My customers Vaio VGN-S1XP has XP Pro, SP2, and
just absolutely will not start with video drivers.

I have tried drivers from omegadrivers.net, acer (ferrari 3400), IBM, sony
(nothing newer than those supplied on CD there).. et cetera.

One possible solution I have read is to replace the chipset specific AGP
driver with a generic PCI-PCI bridge driver. This doesn't work either.

I have tried the following:

Clean install (SP2 slipstreamed.. I don't have anything older than SP2 to
run from), same problem.

Removed drivers with Catalyst-cleaner thing from ATI, removed ati*.* from
\windows , \windows\system32, and \windows\system32\drivers. Moved oem*.*
from \windows\inf.. still the same.

Since the PCI-AGP bridge has been suspected, I installed the latest Intel
Inf update, still no joy.

Have changed the system driver/HAL from ACPI to "Standard PC" .. all
hardware re-detected. still no joy.

The BIOS on this machine has basically NO options other than LCD-expansion
and boot order, so there's nothing to be done in there.

Can anybody help? Since it's SP2, Direct-X 9.0c is pre-installed.

I'm at my wits end.

any help wold be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Carl

 

[carl0s]

ati2dvag.dll + XP service pack 2 (sp2) infinite loop Mobility Radeon 9700

This is just impossible. My customers Vaio VGN-S1XP has XP Pro, SP2, and
just absolutely will not start with video drivers.

I have tried drivers from omegadrivers.net, acer (ferrari 3400), IBM, sony
(nothing newer than those supplied on CD there).. et cetera.

One possible solution I have read is to replace the chipset specific AGP
driver with a generic PCI-PCI bridge driver. This doesn't work either.

I have tried the following:

Clean install (SP2 slipstreamed.. I don't have anything older than SP2 to
run from), same problem.

Removed drivers with Catalyst-cleaner thing from ATI, removed ati*.* from
\windows , \windows\system32, and \windows\system32\drivers. Moved oem*.*
from \windows\inf.. still the same.

Since the PCI-AGP bridge has been suspected, I installed the latest Intel
Inf update, still no joy.

Have changed the system driver/HAL from ACPI to "Standard PC" .. all
hardware re-detected. still no joy.

The BIOS on this machine has basically NO options other than LCD-expansion
and boot order, so there's nothing to be done in there.

Can anybody help? Since it's SP2, Direct-X 9.0c is pre-installed.

I'm at my wits end.

any help wold be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Carl

Forgot to mention that I have the latest BIOS on this machine, although I'm
getting the impression that Sony don't do much in terms of continuing
updates for machines once they're released.
I am most certain this is not a hardware fault since a lot of people have
reported the problem since SP2, and there are no display abnormalities when
running with vga/vgasave driver.

 

[Ian]

Forgot to mention that I have the latest BIOS on this machine, although I'm
getting the impression that Sony don't do much in terms of continuing
updates for machines once they're released.
I am most certain this is not a hardware fault since a lot of people have
reported the problem since SP2, and there are no display abnormalities when
running with vga/vgasave driver.

Which Catalyst versions have you tried? Have you tried manually
updating the device from VGA to a Catalyst, using Upgrade Driver?


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[carl0s]

Which Catalyst versions have you tried? Have you tried manually updating
the device from VGA to a Catalyst, using Upgrade Driver?

Thanks for the reply Ian.
For anybody googling this in future, I have decided this was a (strange)
hardware problem.
The customers partner had an identical machine which had SP2 on it, so I
went over there and tried his hard drive in this machine and it showed the
same problem. I then replaced the customers HD and it worked ?!?
Then it crashed.
I found it was more likely to run for a short while if the machine was
running on battery instead of AC, so I tried some headsink compound on the
CPU to no avail.
anyway it looks like the machine is faulty. Just strange how it only has
this very specific problem.

I had tried all variances of Mobility-Catalyst drivers I could find to no
avail.

 

[patrickp]

Thanks for the reply Ian.
For anybody googling this in future, I have decided this was a (strange)
hardware problem.
The customers partner had an identical machine which had SP2 on it, so I
went over there and tried his hard drive in this machine and it showed the
same problem. I then replaced the customers HD and it worked ?!?
Then it crashed.
I found it was more likely to run for a short while if the machine was
running on battery instead of AC, so I tried some headsink compound on the
CPU to no avail.
anyway it looks like the machine is faulty. Just strange how it only has
this very specific problem.

I had tried all variances of Mobility-Catalyst drivers I could find to no
avail.

AIR some time back the 'Infinite Loop' problem was linked to
inadequate PSUs. This was before the current crop of cards; probably
even before any 9xxx cards came out. I don't recall for sure, as it's
not a problem I ever had.

If changing your power supply from AC to battery makes a difference,
though, it seems to me this is something you should check out.

Just my tuppence worth, Patrick

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