9700 Black Screen at loadup

leprechaun74 · Jan 12, 2007, 02:35 AM

I recently bought an inspiron 9100 on ebay, works perfect no problems. When i go to play HL2 though, it says drivers out of date and the game will freeze. It used to load, and then now just freezes at the loading screen. Other Games work fine (FEAR, COD2, Prey). The strange thing is that when i clean off ati, then use driver cleaner and put on Omega, the log on screen comes up fine but my home screen flashes briefly and then goes black. DH modtool v4 also does this. When i put the original drivers back on, everything is fine. Any suggestions?
Grant

Jan 12, 2007, 02:35 AM	#1
leprechaun74 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	9700 Black Screen at loadup I recently bought an inspiron 9100 on ebay, works perfect no problems. When i go to play HL2 though, it says drivers out of date and the game will freeze. It used to load, and then now just freezes at the loading screen. Other Games work fine (FEAR, COD2, Prey). The strange thing is that when i clean off ati, then use driver cleaner and put on Omega, the log on screen comes up fine but my home screen flashes briefly and then goes black. DH modtool v4 also does this. When i put the original drivers back on, everything is fine. Any suggestions? Grant