ati2vag

[disnurse]

I have radeon 9250, windows xp service pack2). How can i tell if its the video card, everything in the device manager looks good. I have tried reloading the drivers, driver cleaner and I am still not able to start windows without scan disk running, several attempt before all the squiggles on the monitor become clear and the pages load in a fade in sort of way from top to bottom. often takes 4 tries to startup, once running everything seem fine except the way the pages load and my scroll is weird.
80GB, amd 64 bit, 512 RAM, xp home editon

 

[Blue]

Usually if scan disk runs this means there is a problem with the hard drive. Although the other problems you mention would suggest the video card is acting up. If you've tried everything from installing different drivers to reinstalling windows and you still have the problem then perhaps you might try a different video card. Although the video has nothing to do with scan disk.

Don't mean to sound insulting but you are powering off your PC correctly? how are you doing this?

 

[Geoff]

Is this an AGP or PCI card? if its PCI, try moving it to a new slot, this usualy solves issues with PCI cards.

If that doesnt work, try clearing or resetting the CMOS, sometimes that solves the trick with error messages.

 

[computerhakk]

I have radeon 9250, windows xp service pack2). How can i tell if its the video card, everything in the device manager looks good. I have tried reloading the drivers, driver cleaner and I am still not able to start windows without scan disk running, several attempt before all the squiggles on the monitor become clear and the pages load in a fade in sort of way from top to bottom. often takes 4 tries to startup, once running everything seem fine except the way the pages load and my scroll is weird.
80GB, amd 64 bit, 512 RAM, xp home editon

i have the same card.

does everything work now? just for the scrolling of pages and windows moving the windows around?

 

[disnurse]

Thanks but still no luck. I am restarting in the right way, this happens even when I need to restart after installing the new drives. Often times the computer won't even start, I just get lots of lines on the monitor. Wouldn't the device manager or windows detect a hard drive problem? Also I have not tried reinstalling windows, would I need to reformat?

 

[Blue]

Also I have not tried reinstalling windows, would I need to reformat?

Well assuming you have exhausted all other possibility's such as drivers and such it does not hurt to reformat and install. Things that I've been unable to fix in the past where not so magically fixed by reinstalling.