ATI driver blow-up...

[pam123]

Last night XP went into safe mode, gave me that shutting down to prevent harm to the computer thing and, just before I got a blank screen flashed a "Device Failure" Box.
What a way to start the weekend.
A little experimenting and I managed to get it started in safe mode so I went to Add/Remove . My first attempt to uninstall control panel for ati failed but with that failure my video returned.
I tried again, still no luck.
So I uninstalled the drivers, that worked, and ran regclean.
I then installed the new 3.2s and the new control panel over the top of the old.
Everything seemed to be fine and working right.
This morining I checked my e-mail with no problems but this afternoon I tried to boot and windows failed to load.
A reboot got me to safemode and an XP troubleshooting window informed me a some part of the video driver had failed to function and that it had prepared an error report for microsoft.
The error signature was as follows:
szAppName: DriverDisplay
szModName: ati 2dvag.dll
szAppver: 10024E 450000021002
szModver: 6.14.16307
Offset: B42006EA

A little more experimenting enabled me to uninstall drivers, but not control panel, and get XP back at 640x480.
That's where I am now.
I've filled out a problem report for ATI as best I can. Since I don't have video with their drivers installed there's no way to do their error report.
What's going on here?

[pam123]

I've sloved my own problem, I think. It'll take a few more days to be sure this won't happen again.
Uninstalling catalyst drivers is a major hassle and things got left behind. Control Panel is part of the problem and it required a trip to processes in task manager to finally uninstall it.
The second problem seems to have been the "optional" update for MMC. It isn't and this is not the first time ATI has been less than clear on media center upgrades.
Problem three may be EAs Alice though I'm not convinced of that yet. I haven't had time to do much more than watch the intro so I'll try running it for a few hours later this weekend.
That seems to the fix though if I find tomorrow morning that I'm back where I started I'll know I'm wrong.

[wolfie]

same thing happen to me when i was playing neverwinter. it also seemed like it happened when i put in new drivers. reformated and everthing seems to run fine now.

wolfie