ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 driver problem

FrYGuY · 12-03-2005, 09:53 PM

Yar.

So, my old, beloved Sony Vaio SRX series laptop had its keyboard connector on the motherboard short (The thing was 10" and weighed 5 pounds with an 8-hour battery, so I miss it badly), and I got an IBM R51 Thinkpad as a replacement.

Problem is, best uptime I've gotten with the laptop is 1 day because the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 driver ( ati2dvag ) goes into an infinite loop, and XP BSoD's as a result. Sometimes the crash can happen before the logon screen...

What's my first responce? Obviously, I update the driver. Download the newest one from IBM's website (The one from ATI's doesn't work for whatever reason). Problem persists.

Second responce. I uninstal the driver completely, and reinstall. Problem persists.

Third responce. I uninstall the CPU to AGP bridge and replace it with a generic PCI-to-PCI brigde. Problem persists (I then reinstalled the CPU-to-AGP bridge)

I'm really at my wit's end. Any ideas?

FrYGuY · 12-05-2005, 07:57 PM

Cmon, anybody? Please?

FrYGuY · 12-14-2005, 04:31 AM

So, I finally got it to be acceptably stable. I installed the Omega ATI drivers, seems to have fixed the problems. I suspect that Omega disabled fast writes, something which I couldn't seem to do otherwise. Wierd.

Anyway, I now have a working IBM Thinkpad R51, and am still broke. But at least I have a working laptop again...

12-03-2005, 09:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
FrYGuY Member Type Guy Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 501	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 driver problem Yar. So, my old, beloved Sony Vaio SRX series laptop had its keyboard connector on the motherboard short (The thing was 10" and weighed 5 pounds with an 8-hour battery, so I miss it badly), and I got an IBM R51 Thinkpad as a replacement. Problem is, best uptime I've gotten with the laptop is 1 day because the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 driver ( ati2dvag ) goes into an infinite loop, and XP BSoD's as a result. Sometimes the crash can happen before the logon screen... What's my first responce? Obviously, I update the driver. Download the newest one from IBM's website (The one from ATI's doesn't work for whatever reason). Problem persists. Second responce. I uninstal the driver completely, and reinstall. Problem persists. Third responce. I uninstall the CPU to AGP bridge and replace it with a generic PCI-to-PCI brigde. Problem persists (I then reinstalled the CPU-to-AGP bridge) I'm really at my wit's end. Any ideas? __________________ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GB/G/H/J/MC/S d-(--)@ s+:+ a-- C !U--- P--- L--(-) E- W N-(--) !o K--- w++ O--- M--(--) V-- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP- t-- 5-- X- R(+) tv(++) b-- DI+ D---- G- e+++ h-- r* y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Yeah, my computer sucks. You try and do better.

12-05-2005, 07:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
FrYGuY Member Type Guy Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 501	Cmon, anybody? Please? __________________ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GB/G/H/J/MC/S d-(--)@ s+:+ a-- C !U--- P--- L--(-) E- W N-(--) !o K--- w++ O--- M--(--) V-- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP- t-- 5-- X- R(+) tv(++) b-- DI+ D---- G- e+++ h-- r* y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Yeah, my computer sucks. You try and do better.

12-14-2005, 04:31 AM	#3 (permalink)
FrYGuY Member Type Guy Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 501	So, I finally got it to be acceptably stable. I installed the Omega ATI drivers, seems to have fixed the problems. I suspect that Omega disabled fast writes, something which I couldn't seem to do otherwise. Wierd. Anyway, I now have a working IBM Thinkpad R51, and am still broke. But at least I have a working laptop again... __________________ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GB/G/H/J/MC/S d-(--)@ s+:+ a-- C !U--- P--- L--(-) E- W N-(--) !o K--- w++ O--- M--(--) V-- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP- t-- 5-- X- R(+) tv(++) b-- DI+ D---- G- e+++ h-- r* y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Yeah, my computer sucks. You try and do better.

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