video card to blame?

[Guest]

my computer has been hanging and restarting - the retailer identified failing
hard-drives so I bought a new one - same problem - with a clean install of xp
I get an error related to ati radeon driver (looks very similar to a post
someone else made) -I can't translate the "serious error" code I get, so how
can I be sure it is a driver problem now? also, how can I update the driver
if I can't get the computer to work long enough to do that before it hangs?
any help much appreciated
Greg

 

[Rich Barry]

Greg, you should be able to download a different driver in Safe Mode with
Networking. And then install it in Safe Mode.
Download the ATI driver remover also. You can probably get them at
www.rage3d.com
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76416
When you are at Rage3d scroll down to the "Most reliable Catalyst
Drivers" article.

 

[Guest]

Solved! It WAS the video driver, but my workaround was to remove the video
drivers altogether (forcing XP to use the most basic generic driver)...then I
installed the latest driver from the manufacturer. Seems to work fine now. I
suspect that Windows automatically updated the video driver (one it didn't
like). I have now turned that auto-update function off. Thanks for the help.