[XP] Radeon drivers do not stay loaded

[stevejr]

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....??

[liam858]

Try booting into Safe Mode, go into Device Manager and delete every instance of Display Adapter listed, then reboot, install the newest drivers from the ATI website, and reboot again.


Liam

[SuperSparks]

If you are saying that the diaplay is fine at the desktop, and you only get the wavy lines online, then I'd have to say that it is a browser. or possibly networking, issue. Have you tried a different browser?

[stevejr]

Liam..I'm certain that I have tried what you suggest...but I'll try again just to be sure ( when I get home tonite).

SuperSparks...yes, desktop is good...and so are the web pages until I re-boot...then wavy scrolling.

I will try FireFox and see...

Thanks for the info..