ATI 8500 and W2k: only trouble

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12feb-1953

Hello

Friends of mine had bought a Radeon 8500 several months ago. It
worked fine with W98SE but after changing to W2K it worked fine
only for a limited time after which the computer had to be rebooted.
The period of error free function was not reproducible, it ranged from
1 min to maybe 30 min. The malfunction started with text getting
scrambled and then the PC locked up after some seconds or minutes.
Now they installed it on a new MB but the effect is the same.
Driver is now Catalyst 4.1 but older versions didn't work better.

Does anybody know this effect? Does anybody know a solution or
work around for this problem?

I don't give any technical detials because I think that it is not a
problem of the hardware (except for the 8500 ;-) ).
If you disagree, please tell me.

TIA

TL
 
I don't have a solution to the problem but it might help to know that I have
an 8500 running on W2k and that was an upgrade from Win98SE as well. The
card runs fine and I use dual monitors for my cad work.

Gary
 
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