Catalyst 5.9 driver crashing

Conda · Oct 9, 2005, 03:44 PM

I just built my new PC. Mb is ASUS A8N-SLI Premium AMD 64 3500+, video card is ATI RADEON X850 XT PCIe. I bought Windows XP x64 with it (accidentally, I wanted regular XP). After installing the system, I downloaded newest Catalyst (5.9) driver for x64 and installed it. I also installed .NET 1.1 (why it is not available through regular Windows Update is beyond me). Anyway, I don't have any software installed yet, so I only use IE. When using IE, immediately after opening some pages , or after few clicks the system is going to blue screen with SYTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and listing ati2dvag.dll as a driver where problem occured.
Also, when installing the driver, Windows 'dicovers' two Unknown devices. In Device Manager, they are listed as Unknown devices on RADEON X850.
Anybody has similar configuration? Any tricks, BIOS settings, etc to make it work? The only BIOS setting I found, that is related is 'Init Display First' - I changed it from PCI to PCIE, but this didn't help. I don't overclock.
I tried to load drivers from CD, but the installation fails, with error that 'atiiiexx.exe' is missing.
I tried about everything suggestedon ATI site, except upgrading mb bios.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I've found a reason: there is a conflict between Radeon drivers and Realtek audio drivers for onboard audio. Loading updated driver doesn't help. I just went to CompUSA and bought cheap Audigy 2 Value card... which didn't work at the beginning (Creative Labs driver installer claiming that there is no Audigy card installed). Moving the sound card to different PCI slot solved that problem.

Oct 9, 2005, 03:44 PM	#1
Conda DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Catalyst 5.9 driver crashing I just built my new PC. Mb is ASUS A8N-SLI Premium AMD 64 3500+, video card is ATI RADEON X850 XT PCIe. I bought Windows XP x64 with it (accidentally, I wanted regular XP). After installing the system, I downloaded newest Catalyst (5.9) driver for x64 and installed it. I also installed .NET 1.1 (why it is not available through regular Windows Update is beyond me). Anyway, I don't have any software installed yet, so I only use IE. When using IE, immediately after opening some pages , or after few clicks the system is going to blue screen with SYTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and listing ati2dvag.dll as a driver where problem occured. Also, when installing the driver, Windows 'dicovers' two Unknown devices. In Device Manager, they are listed as Unknown devices on RADEON X850. Anybody has similar configuration? Any tricks, BIOS settings, etc to make it work? The only BIOS setting I found, that is related is 'Init Display First' - I changed it from PCI to PCIE, but this didn't help. I don't overclock. I tried to load drivers from CD, but the installation fails, with error that 'atiiiexx.exe' is missing. I tried about everything suggestedon ATI site, except upgrading mb bios. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Edit: I've found a reason: there is a conflict between Radeon drivers and Realtek audio drivers for onboard audio. Loading updated driver doesn't help. I just went to CompUSA and bought cheap Audigy 2 Value card... which didn't work at the beginning (Creative Labs driver installer claiming that there is no Audigy card installed). Moving the sound card to different PCI slot solved that problem. Last edited by Conda; Oct 12, 2005 at 02:06 AM.