XP PRO install with RAGE Fury MAXX

[JohnnyT]

Goodday to all.

I have some problems on initial installation of Windows XP SP1 with a
ATI RAGE Fury MAXX video card.

In Normal mode, it keeps rebooting by itself after the initial XP screen.
In Safe Mode, it displays a message about a driver problem:
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Computer restarted after an unexpected shutdown. Microsoft Windows
detected a possible device failure.
The driver for the display device was unable to complete the drawing
operation.
The display driver for RAGE Fury MAXX (VGA Device)(Microsoft
Corporation) seems responsible for the system instability.
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I am offered the "Send Error Report" option, which I clicked on (what
gives???).

Cant find any mention of similar problems with the ATI RAGE Fury MAXX
video card on MS support site.
I know that this card can work with XP (not SP1 though) because I've
seen it on this very PC.
I've disabled all other devices that could cause IRQ conflict, and it
seems to work OK on Safe Mode.
Also, the card still works perfect on Win98SE.

Thanks for any hints on this, I really apreciate!

Jean

 

[Ron Rector]

In safe mode, go to device manager and disable the video
card. This will force standard vga driver to load
instead of the problamatic driver which is currently
loading.
Now boot up normally and go to the ATI website and
download the appropriate driver for your card.
Install it.

This should get you up and running ok.

 

[JohnnyT]

Thanks Ron for the tip!
I did disabled the video card, now I can get Xp to work in Normal Mode
in 1024X768, HiColor.
But I didn't find the exact XP driver for "RAGE Fury MAXX" on ATI's web
site.
Anybody can recommend a compatible driver?

Yesterday night, I sent an email to ATI tech. support, they replied with
infos and a lot of links to pages for things to try, but none works. I
will follow-up on this.
Today, I installed most of the updates from WindowsUpdate. Not better...

I found in these entry in the Device Manager, under View - Resources by
type - Memory :
[E0000000 - E7FFFFFF] Intel 82443BX Pentium(r) II Processor to AGP
Controller
*[E0000000 - E3FFFFFF] RAGE Fury MAXX (VGA Device) (Microsoft Corporation)
[E8000000 - EBFFFFFF] Intel 82443BX Pentium(r) II Processor to AGP
Controller
*[EA004000 - EA007FFF] RAGE Fury MAXX (VGA Device) (Microsoft Corporation)

The same for the Input/Output (IO) section :
[0000E000 - 0000EFFF] Intel 82443BX Pentium(r) II Processor to AGP
Controller
*[0000E000 - 0000E0FF] RAGE Fury MAXX (VGA Device) (Microsoft Corporation)
Are these indication of memory address or I/O usage conflict???

I see a shared IRQ with the network card, but I disabled the card,
doesn't make any difference.
*(PCI) 11 RAGE Fury MAXX (VGA Device) (Microsoft Corporation)
(PCI) 11 D-Link DFE-538TX 10/100 Adapter


What puzzles me is that this very video card worked on this PC with
WinXP, but not SP1 tough. Too bad I cannot keep this "patched" version
of XP.

Thanks again for the help.
Jean