ATI Radeon x1650 by HIS Lockup/Crash

Shadowclaimer · 03-28-2008, 06:35 PM

Alright, purchased a new ATI Radeon x1650 Pro by HIS online off Newegg last week, installed it, everything went fine, until I installed drivers.

Upon installing drivers and rebooting, everytime windows starts up it now locks up/black screens/white screens/blue screens. I swapped up the drivers later on using a driver cleaner and a few other things and tried all the following drivers..

Catalyst 7.1
Catalyst 8.2(3)
Omega

System Specs:
450w Power Supply
PCChips M160 Motherboard
Athalon 3000 Processor
1gig DDR(something) Ram
ATI Radeon x1650 Pro AGP

After much testing we've swapped out PSU with a better one, RAM, and a few other things but nothing is seeming to working.

I have a big LAN tomorrow so if anyone can help me fix this I'd be GREATLY appreciative =(

**emosun** · 03-28-2008, 09:42 PM

Have you downloaded the latest bios for your motherboard?

Shadowclaimer · 08-25-2008, 02:53 AM

Really hate to necro this old post of mine but here goes.

I initially "solved" the problem after searching the internet by finding REALLY old Catalyst Drivers that worked, but killed my performance, I stuck with them however because they worked even though I was churning out a whopping 20 FPS on COD4.

However I reformatted last night with Vista 64-bit and the problem is happening again, and figured this time I'd hit it face first instead of just side-stepping it like last time.

I've updated BIOS, Motherboard, everything possible at this situation, it is a driver issue.

Also to note: Vista doesn't allow installing/uninstalling during safe mode, is this normal? is there a way to change that?

Edit: New bit of fun, I'm going to have to reformat again given that for some reason Vista keeps locking up when I run Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking when it hits crcdisk.sys, wasn't doing this last night but started this morning.

**emosun** · 08-25-2008, 03:57 AM

To tell you the truth even with the best drivers in the world , I couldn't see an x1650 AGP getting anything higher then 20fps in COD4. It is a 4 gerneration old card. Your system is more geared tward xp then vista 64bit.

Shadowclaimer · 08-25-2008, 04:27 AM

Bleh oh well, guess I'll just wait till next week when I get the money and rebuild the whole mess, I always figured the X1650 was a much better card than it is I guess.

**emosun** · 08-25-2008, 11:30 PM

Naw. I had an x16 series a few years ago , and it was sure disapointing for the price.

03-28-2008, 06:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
Shadowclaimer Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 27 OS: Vista Ultimate	ATI Radeon x1650 by HIS Lockup/Crash Alright, purchased a new ATI Radeon x1650 Pro by HIS online off Newegg last week, installed it, everything went fine, until I installed drivers. Upon installing drivers and rebooting, everytime windows starts up it now locks up/black screens/white screens/blue screens. I swapped up the drivers later on using a driver cleaner and a few other things and tried all the following drivers.. Catalyst 7.1 Catalyst 8.2(3) Omega System Specs: 450w Power Supply PCChips M160 Motherboard Athalon 3000 Processor 1gig DDR(something) Ram ATI Radeon x1650 Pro AGP After much testing we've swapped out PSU with a better one, RAM, and a few other things but nothing is seeming to working. I have a big LAN tomorrow so if anyone can help me fix this I'd be GREATLY appreciative =(

03-28-2008, 09:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
emosun Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: usa Posts: 7,077 OS: xp pro sp2 My System	Re: ATI Radeon x1650 by HIS Lockup/Crash Have you downloaded the latest bios for your motherboard? __________________ Gpu Benchmarks Cpu-Z Power supply information and selection Gpu-Z Video card quick list

08-25-2008, 02:53 AM	#3 (permalink)
Shadowclaimer Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 27 OS: Vista Ultimate	Re: ATI Radeon x1650 by HIS Lockup/Crash Really hate to necro this old post of mine but here goes. I initially "solved" the problem after searching the internet by finding REALLY old Catalyst Drivers that worked, but killed my performance, I stuck with them however because they worked even though I was churning out a whopping 20 FPS on COD4. However I reformatted last night with Vista 64-bit and the problem is happening again, and figured this time I'd hit it face first instead of just side-stepping it like last time. I've updated BIOS, Motherboard, everything possible at this situation, it is a driver issue. Also to note: Vista doesn't allow installing/uninstalling during safe mode, is this normal? is there a way to change that? Edit: New bit of fun, I'm going to have to reformat again given that for some reason Vista keeps locking up when I run Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking when it hits crcdisk.sys, wasn't doing this last night but started this morning. Last edited by Shadowclaimer; 08-25-2008 at 03:10 AM.

08-25-2008, 03:57 AM	#4 (permalink)
emosun Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: usa Posts: 7,077 OS: xp pro sp2 My System	Re: ATI Radeon x1650 by HIS Lockup/Crash To tell you the truth even with the best drivers in the world , I couldn't see an x1650 AGP getting anything higher then 20fps in COD4. It is a 4 gerneration old card. Your system is more geared tward xp then vista 64bit. __________________ Gpu Benchmarks Cpu-Z Power supply information and selection Gpu-Z Video card quick list

08-25-2008, 04:27 AM	#5 (permalink)
Shadowclaimer Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 27 OS: Vista Ultimate	Re: ATI Radeon x1650 by HIS Lockup/Crash Bleh oh well, guess I'll just wait till next week when I get the money and rebuild the whole mess, I always figured the X1650 was a much better card than it is I guess. Last edited by Shadowclaimer; 08-25-2008 at 04:29 AM.

08-25-2008, 11:30 PM	#6 (permalink)
emosun Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: usa Posts: 7,077 OS: xp pro sp2 My System	Re: ATI Radeon x1650 by HIS Lockup/Crash Naw. I had an x16 series a few years ago , and it was sure disapointing for the price. __________________ Gpu Benchmarks Cpu-Z Power supply information and selection Gpu-Z Video card quick list