Blue screen-video continuous loop

[vaiovenom]

Hi, Twice now my PC has frozen and the blue screen comes up saying that ATI was stuck in a continuous loop. I says that it may be a hardware issue or a driver issue. Is my video card on the blink?

[pam123]

Do you have Vista or XP as your operating system ?
Did you just update to the 7.3 drivers when this started?
Is this freeze at start-up, during game play, or has it been random?

[vaiovenom]

I am running XP Pro. I havent went to the ATI website and downloaded any updated drivers. I am using the driver that came with the card which I purchased about 6 months ago. The freeze up occurs randomly. Once when I was watching a home movie being streamed thru quicktime, and the other when I was browsing between folders.

[pam123]

So your first step is to go to the AMD/ATI site and get the latest driver for your operating system and Radeon card.
That's here : http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Follow their instructions for uninstalling the old drivers and reinstalling the new ones.
Quicktime is notorious for being fussy about drivers and trouble there can carry over especially since the drivers from 6 months ago were still being optimized for the 1XXX series cards ( and the ones on the CD would have been older still.).
While you're doing that check to make sure you're running the Microsoft.NET 2.0 (not 1.1) ., you can find that in Add/Remove in control Panel.
With that card I'll assume you're a gamer, have you checked for the latest update of DX 9 for XP, or installed it with a recent game ?
When all that's in order, if you're still having freezes with the same warning then it's likely to be the video card.