Up until Saturday 14th April my driver seems to break down very often. I've installed it every four hours when the games are like a car with no gears. I've updated the driver but it seems to get worse. Now my graphics card stuffs up every 10min . How is this possible? I've reinstalled Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 but my ATi 9550SE just won't slice through. It definately can't be overheating or could it

It's never happened before and it happens anytime anywhere

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System Specs.

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.7 GHz
RAM: 768MB DDR
GPU: ATi Radeon 9550SE
Motherboard: Gigabyte 7VAX 1394
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Live!

What exactly happens when you try and play LFS? Why would the car having no gears have anything to do with a video card driver?

Are you reinstalling LFS or your video card driver?

A little more detail is needed I think. Screenshots if something is visually screwing up. If you have another computer with a video card, if you could try that it may help you to know if your card is what's causing the problem.

Um It must be the graphics card because IT WAS WORKING PROPERLY A FEW DAYS AGO :gnasher:
And whats the point? LFS just says there's something wrong with the driver.

And for a car with no gears : Up until Saturday 14th April my driver seems to break down very often. I've installed it every four hours when the games are like a car with no gears. I've updated the driver but it seems to get worse. Now my graphics card stuffs up every 10min . How is this possible? I've reinstalled Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 but my ATi 9550SE just won't slice through. It definately can't be overheating or could it

It's never happened before and it happens anytime anywhere

Ever heard of similies or you're just :homersimp

well your first post make little sense, and i can't understand what's in your second post except subtle digs at someone trying to help

Well I don't :headbang:know but it sound like your video card has a :bandit::gandalf: cold or something with it getting stuffed up. Maybe you should :sppalpati:lfs::dnfnoob: just give it some rest and it'll feel all better.




Now, to be serious.

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Um It must be the graphics card because IT WAS WORKING PROPERLY A FEW DAYS AGO :gnasher:
And whats the point? LFS just says there's something wrong with the driver.

Yes, it must be one arbitrary piece of hardware that you picked out. Pure genius. Can you tell us exactly what it says is wrong with the driver? (Video card driver, correct?)

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And for a car with no gears : Up until Saturday 14th April my driver seems to break down very often. I've installed it every four hours when the games are like a car with no gears.

What does this even mean? How is it like a car with no gears? I can't use similes to figure out some technical problem with a computer. You'll have to do better than that.

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I've updated the driver but it seems to get worse. Now my graphics card stuffs up every 10min . How is this possible? I've reinstalled Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 but my ATi 9550SE just won't slice through. It definately can't be overheating or could it

Well, it's possible if your graphics card is overheating I suppose, or if some other piece of hardware isn't at 100% health. But again I'll ask (because you were too busy giving me a hard time to answer any questions in my first post here) Screenshot of it messing up? Do you have another graphics card that you can test?

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It's never happened before and it happens anytime anywhere

In a box? With a fox? Down a river? Giving you a shiver?

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Ever heard of similies or you're just :homersimp

Ever heard of spelling/being considerate/answering troubleshooting questions/spelling again/being helpful to those helping you/not using so many smilies still gets points across?

Then before I reinstalled Windows XP PRO everything was working properly and then with the same driver it stuffed up

Picture of it stuffing up when I turn on the computer
doesn't tell me anything about the crash or why the graphics card isn't working properly
And I used a Nvidia 7300GS and that game never stuffed up (I reinstalled the game daily so It can't be the game's fault)
It happens to LFS too. I was watching people play in multiplayer when i saw only cars hovering in the air (or the track dissapeared momentarily.) I'll be pretty lucky if I get to go through a day without crashing.
The message (attached below) can pop up anytime - when I'm playng a game, surfing the web, watching videos or anything that might require extensive use of the GPU.
It might be overheating but it seems the graphics card stays at 40C and two fans are are few centimeters away.

Sounds to me like your graphics card has kicked the bucket. Are you using the catalyst 7.3 drivers? If not, see if they help, if so, get a new graphics card.

How long did you use the 7300GS before confirming that it wasn't crashing?

Can you specifically define "stuffing up", and give examples of precisely what happens?

Yup the are the 7.4 drivers and the Nvidia 7300GS didn't ever stuff up
What happens (in LFS) things tend to move like the driver's race uniform. It's like a really big heart beat (i'll try to upload video of that). In NFS the ground where the car is parked the floor moves but no effect on the car.

Just a thought, but have you tried overclocking your card using ATI Tools or similar...if so, that could be the cause..try easing it off a bit (unless its too late and its already fried!)

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Just a thought, but have you tried overclocking your card using ATI Tools or similar...if so, that could be the cause..try easing it off a bit (unless its too late and its already fried!)

The ATi tools don't give me overclocking power (probably because of no fan) unless you mean the memory clock and the other one what wast that again?

just pics of what happens to the letters sometimes

Hi ethan520,

first of all I have had hard times to understand what you really mean by your posts.I think you have problems using you own language .

Secondly the 7300GS is NVIDIA card so you couldnt use it with 7.4 drivers(ATI drivers) as you claimed.
Why you have replaced your 7300GS with this ATI card?
How did you reinstall your windows?Did you format the C:drive and then installed Windows XP from scratch?

Seems the ATI 9500SE card have broken memory thats why you see flashing textures and text corrputed on your desktop.

Give me some more hints and then I will try to do my best to give you some advice/help.

Well if I installed the 7.4 drivers, how would the graphics card work? And the 7300GS is used on another computer. sigh :ashamed:

Specs on that computer (7300GS)

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
1GB RAM
Gigabyte S3-965
Nvidia 7300GS
700GB RAID 0

Well C: was newly formatted and Win XP Pro was installed from scratch.

And just remember, it's a 9550SE.

The driver mysteriously doesn't work everytime I restart my computer. This also happens with the sound card driver but the driver sometimes the driver doesn't work when I'm in the middle of anything, sometimes the speakers don't work even when I restarted after installing the driver! (Creative Soundblaster Live!)

The soundcard also works with another computer.

Ok.
To understand better.With which PC spec you have problems.Please dont mix 2 things together because its hard to understand where the problem really is.

Windows has already some generic drivers for most of the graphic cards.

I've seen such artifacts on my PC too - on mine it was relatet to the Power Supply (too old - too hot - voltage drop). If u have an old CPU cooler or something like that mount it on your power supply and see if it helps. Otherwise you could download a demo version of Everest and check the Voltages there (enable protocolation, play till u get the false drawings and then look up your min values of +3.3V (if it gets under 3.1V or even under 3 it sould be in cause of overheating or just because its too old). With the extra cooling your power supply won't live much longer, the problem will get worse very fast. So buy a new one if it causes it.

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.7 GHz
RAM: 768MB DDR
GPU: ATi Radeon 9550SE
Motherboard: Gigabyte 7VAX 1394
PSU:650W
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Live!
(the one I talked about at the top of the forum)

whats the PSU?