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Windows XP Compatability with Older ATI (Legacy) Software from ATI

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csteele32

Flightless Bird
I am currently using an older machine a: ASUS P2B-VM slot 1 550Mhz with a
built in ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X (GT-C2U2) 8MB Ram Video Card running 384mb
RAM. I am running Windows XP Home Edition and have been for quite a while. I
have done very little upgrades, even though I know it definately needs alot.
I haven't had any problems with anything until recently. 2 or 3 years ago I
downloaded from the ATI website a new driver with a display console adapter
for adjustments. It worked fine in Win 2000 and in XP up until three weeks
ago. Now XP is trying to protect my CPU and dumping the memory saying the
Video Driver isn't correct, and windows is stating that the ATI software is
not upto Windows Standards, or something like that. It is good software from
the valid site of the creation company of the hardware. I have enclosed the
Addressess of the site I downloaded from, and the instructions enclosed to
install them.

Drivers Download Page
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/legacy-xp.aspx

Instructions site
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-j5-30-1-b02.html

Is there a way to fix this? Can I tell Windows to leave it alone? Anyone Help?
 
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Shenan Stanley

Flightless Bird
csteele32 wrote:
> I am currently using an older machine a: ASUS P2B-VM slot 1 550Mhz
> with a built in ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X (GT-C2U2) 8MB Ram Video Card
> running 384mb RAM. I am running Windows XP Home Edition and have
> been for quite a while. I have done very little upgrades, even
> though I know it definately needs alot. I haven't had any problems
> with anything until recently. 2 or 3 years ago I downloaded from
> the ATI website a new driver with a display console adapter for
> adjustments. It worked fine in Win 2000 and in XP up until three
> weeks ago. Now XP is trying to protect my CPU and dumping the
> memory saying the Video Driver isn't correct, and windows is
> stating that the ATI software is not upto Windows Standards, or
> something like that. It is good software from the valid site of
> the creation company of the hardware. I have enclosed the
> Addressess of the site I downloaded from, and the instructions
> enclosed to install them.
>
> Drivers Download Page
> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/legacy-xp.aspx
>
> Instructions site
> https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-j5-30-1-b02.html
>
> Is there a way to fix this? Can I tell Windows to leave it alone?
> Anyone Help?


First - "something like that" is not a description one should put when
quoting an error. Try quoting verbatim, please. ;-)

Why not download the latest version of the video device driver and install
it?

The video device - BTW - is supported by the original manufacturer (or not.)
Microsoft has no responsibility surrounding it. They did not create it,
they did not make a driver for it so any of their OSes could use it, etc.
If you are having issues surrounding the video card, it is up to the
manufacturer to fix it (or not.) Unfortunately for you - most manufacturers
stop supporting a product usually at a certain OS level, but sometimes just
at a certain patch level.

I believe you may just have gotten lucky with it working in Windows XP - I
mean you were using a product ATI/AMD decided to stop supporting at the
Windows 2000 level in WIndows XP using what sems to have been a hack that
only redirects you to this web page now (when you click on the second link
you gave...):
http://support.amd.com/us/403/Pages/leech.aspx

It's fantastic it worked for you all this time, it's too bad it is giving
you trouble now - but it was never meant to work. You could uninstall the
driver and just use the machine with a generic VGA driver or you could find
a cheap *supported* Windows XP video card to replace it with (used, friends,
family, ebay, local computer store, etc.)

Windows is not, despite the implications in your post, attacking the driver.
;-) You have not given enough information for anyone to tell what started
the issue - like any updates you did (you said yuou don't do much in terms
of that) or anything else. AFAIK you have been infested/infected with
something because you haven't updated and finally got hit through some
security flaw left unfixed and this is just a symptom - unfortunately.
Could be the ancient video device circuitry is just dying. In order to
provide more, one would have to know what changed between it working fine
and it no longer working.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
 
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SC Tom

Flightless Bird
"csteele32" <csteele32@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:20E568D6-06BC-40D1-BAB4-9B48A05C6396@microsoft.com...
>I am currently using an older machine a: ASUS P2B-VM slot 1 550Mhz with a
> built in ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X (GT-C2U2) 8MB Ram Video Card running 384mb
> RAM. I am running Windows XP Home Edition and have been for quite a while.
> I
> have done very little upgrades, even though I know it definately needs
> alot.
> I haven't had any problems with anything until recently. 2 or 3 years ago
> I
> downloaded from the ATI website a new driver with a display console
> adapter
> for adjustments. It worked fine in Win 2000 and in XP up until three weeks
> ago. Now XP is trying to protect my CPU and dumping the memory saying the
> Video Driver isn't correct, and windows is stating that the ATI software
> is
> not upto Windows Standards, or something like that. It is good software
> from
> the valid site of the creation company of the hardware. I have enclosed
> the
> Addressess of the site I downloaded from, and the instructions enclosed to
> install them.
>
> Drivers Download Page
> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/legacy-xp.aspx
>
> Instructions site
> https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-j5-30-1-b02.html
>
> Is there a way to fix this? Can I tell Windows to leave it alone? Anyone
> Help?
>
>


Along with what Shenan said, you shouldn't be installing drivers from the
ATI site for an onboard video card; you should be getting the driver from
Asus. But since they stopped supporting anything after NT and Win9x for that
board, good luck with that. Windows is probably correct that it's not the
correct driver. You might try reinstalling the original and see what
happens. You'll have to uninstall your current one first, though.

Sounds like it's time to save up your pennies for a new(er) MB, or a new
system. Quite often, you can find ads for entry level PC's for around $200
with Win7 already installed. If what you have now is satisfactory for you,
one of those would be like jumping to a Cray :)

I know that's not what you really want to hear, but eventually some piece of
software or hardware is going to want a much better system than what you
have now and you're going to be stuck with either doing without or getting
an upgrade.
--
SC Tom
 
R

Rich Barry

Flightless Bird
That also may be WinXP telling you that the Rage Pro chip is finally
going south for the winter. I have a slot 1 that is only used for
emergencies. It's nine years old at least. I don't have the heart to throw
it away since it was my first build.
"csteele32" <csteele32@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:20E568D6-06BC-40D1-BAB4-9B48A05C6396@microsoft.com...
>I am currently using an older machine a: ASUS P2B-VM slot 1 550Mhz with a
> built in ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X (GT-C2U2) 8MB Ram Video Card running 384mb
> RAM. I am running Windows XP Home Edition and have been for quite a while.
> I
> have done very little upgrades, even though I know it definately needs
> alot.
> I haven't had any problems with anything until recently. 2 or 3 years ago
> I
> downloaded from the ATI website a new driver with a display console
> adapter
> for adjustments. It worked fine in Win 2000 and in XP up until three weeks
> ago. Now XP is trying to protect my CPU and dumping the memory saying the
> Video Driver isn't correct, and windows is stating that the ATI software
> is
> not upto Windows Standards, or something like that. It is good software
> from
> the valid site of the creation company of the hardware. I have enclosed
> the
> Addressess of the site I downloaded from, and the instructions enclosed to
> install them.
>
> Drivers Download Page
> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/legacy-xp.aspx
>
> Instructions site
> https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-j5-30-1-b02.html
>
> Is there a way to fix this? Can I tell Windows to leave it alone? Anyone
> Help?
>
>
 
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