funkyduck

Hello everyone. This is my first time posting here, since I rarely have problems with my computer. But lately it’s been driving me crazy.



I own a P4 3.4 Clevo laptop with a ATI Mobility 9700 video card. Lately I have been having this problem where my computer seems to slow down immensely and I have to re-install my video drivers.



I’ve tried the ATI drivers from their website, and now the OMEGA drivers, but every once in a while the same problem comes up and nothing seems to be working. I’ve tried System Restore, and that doesn’t even seem to work. The only thing that works is re-installing the drivers.



The weird thing is that it also sets my desktop appearance back to “Windows XP Style” (I usually have it on “Windows Classic Style). Also, I work a lot with video, and I’ve noticed that the drivers usually go awry when I view compressed Windows Media Video files.



Here are my specs:



Windows XP Professional, SP 2

P4 3400 Mhz

Phoenix Technologies LTD 6.00 BIOS

60 GB Hard Drive

Mobility 9700



Below are my hardware conflicts, which I’m not sure how to resolve…





Intel(R) 82865G/PE/P/GV/82848P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571

ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series (Omega 2.6.71)



PCI bus

Direct memory access controller



Intel(R) 82865G/PE/P/GV/82848P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571

ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series (Omega 2.6.71)



IRQ 5 Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller

IRQ 5 Intel(R) 82801EB SMBus Controller - 24D3

IRQ 5 PCI Modem



I/O Port Motherboard resources

I/O Port System timer



I/O Port Intel(R) 82865G/PE/P/GV/82848P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571

I/O Port ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series (Omega 2.6.71)



IRQ 16 Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24D2

IRQ 16 Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24DE

IRQ 16 ENE CB1410 Cardbus Controller



IRQ 17 ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series (Omega 2.6.71)

IRQ 17 Realtek AC'97 Audio



IRQ 19 Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24D4

IRQ 19 Gigabyte GN-WIAG Wireless Network miniPCI Adapter



Memory Address PCI bus

Memory Address Intel(R) 82865G/PE/P/GV/82848P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571

Memory Address ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series (Omega 2.6.71)



I/O Port Intel(R) 82865G/PE/P/GV/82848P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571

I/O Port ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series (Omega 2.6.71)



Memory Address Intel(R) 82865G/PE/P/GV/82848P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571

Memory Address ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series (Omega 2.6.71)





Thank you in advance!

Geminiwave

probably should post this in the ATI driver section...or the Laptop section.

anyway there could be any number of reasons for this. Does it work fine for awhile after freshly installing the drivers? If so then its probably not a hardware problem.

Have you tried out drivercleaner? THAT will probably fix your problem right there. Its available here on driverheaven. uninstall your drivers, get into safe mode, run drivercleaner and clean off your ATI drivers with drivercleaner (easy as pie). then restart and get into normal mode and install some new drivers.

oh yeah, the 5.10s have been buggy for me on every distro so far...massive slowdowns on different games. its kinda weird. Could be unrelated to what happened to you, but possibly it may be the same thing. Try the 5.9s or even 5.8s.

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