[XP] Radeon drivers do not stay loaded
I started having this wavy scrolling problem after I did a repair install of the o/s on this Socket A system. I thought that the Radeon 9200SE 128MB AGP card that had been working great brfore the repair install had somehow gone bad so I put in an old 32 MB Riva TNT 64 card and it worked okay...no wavy scrolling. I bought a Radeon 9250 128MB and installed it and the drivers and it works good until I re-boot the next time...then same wavy scrolling.
I uninstalled every driver in add/remove...uninstalled all ATI Catalyst stuff...used the ATI uninstaller to remove all traces of drivers and related stuff...went to device manager and uninstalled all drivers...tried to start over with a clean slate.
Using either the drivers on the cd, or using the drivers from the ATI site for this card, I get the same results: the drivers work just fine until I re-boot. The desktop screen is okay...it appears that the drivers are working for 'desktop', but it's when I get online that the problem is apparent.
I can re-install the drivers and all is well...as long as I don't turn the computer off or need to re-boot...weird!!
I did a search for "wavy scrolling" and that's where I read to uninstall everything and start clean...and I also read that perhaps Windows is somehow now working quite right and not keeping the drivers loaded?
I'm at a loss as to what to try next....??
