Windows XP Locks Up after Monitor Power Save is activated with All-In-Wonder Radeon Catalyst Drivers.
I have an All-In-Wonder Radeon 32 video card. I have had this issue since I bought the card many years ago. Both the tech support for ATI and Microsoft pointed their fingers at each other and the solution was never found.... They had me reinstall the drivers for it 5 times (Under Win 98 and also XP). I gave up and just turned off the powersave feature.I have now upgraded the motherboard .... *** the rest has been removed till I do some more trouble shooting with the new board *** it appears that the new board may be crashing coincedentally at the same time the screen saver/power save kicked in. After running the MS memory diagnostic it takes aprox. the same amount of time to lock up and it isn't running windows. Sad to say, I may have to put the old board back in. :-(I'll keep you posted... 1 person needs an answerI do too
July 5th, 2010 6:56am

If you changed the motherboard, did you also install the new motherboard drivers from that maker siteRadeon 32 is a very old card.www.memtest.org have a bootable floppy / cd memory diagnostics tool
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July 6th, 2010 11:15am

It appears that I have solved it... The 2Ghz Intel Celeron processor that was on the board was defective. I just happened to have a 1.5Ghz P4 sitting around somewhere and swapped it in. I haven't had it lock up since... I'm going to let it run for a few hours and see what happens. The power save is working now also. It is too bad I'm losing some speed.But just to note. I had the card in an AOpen AX6B board with a PII 350Mhz MMX (and later a PIII 600mhz) before and never did get the power save to work on it (it worked with another AGP Card). They may have fixed it in this newer driver but I don't think I'm going to try it unless I have to put the old board back in.And yes... that card is old but I payed $500 for it so I'm going to use it till it dies :-) Under 98 on the PII 350 I could play Wolfenstein Enemy Territory and watch TV at the same time (with the old ATI drivers) and it hardly bothered it... under XP- Forget it!!! Too slow. And XP's update utility kept messing up the TV recording every few minutes.
July 6th, 2010 10:30pm

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