banjoterror
New Member
Howdy do. I'm new to the forum so sorry if this has been covered before.
I just got a new motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ CPU, I also got a Radeon 9800SE AGP card. I have 512MB RAM. I got the motherboard installed but had to completely reinstall windows XP from a CD. That was a bummer. Now I have downloaded as many new drivers as I could (and installed them) and I got all the various windows auto updates. I installed a pair of games and fired one up. The game ran until I was at the loading screen just before the game starts... and then froze up completely (couldn't get to the task manager via ctrl-alt-del). I tried again. Same result. Other game. Same result. After that at two seemingly random times the computer has just frozen up.
At one point I got a message suggesting I should install a vga driver or video control device when I was installing the latest Radeon Catalyst 5.1 drivers. That installation couldn't be completed succesfully. I went into the device manager control panel and ascertained that I have no video control device installed on my computer, but am uncertain what getting one entails. I did a google search but couldn't find anything new or even recent, all the vga controllers seemed to be for older versions of windows.
I suspect that the games are unable to initialize some video control device or another that doesn't exist. I should work on that. But I am confused and horribly angered by the fact that the computer has frozen several times for no apparent reason. ANyone know why this might be happening?
I just got a new motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ CPU, I also got a Radeon 9800SE AGP card. I have 512MB RAM. I got the motherboard installed but had to completely reinstall windows XP from a CD. That was a bummer. Now I have downloaded as many new drivers as I could (and installed them) and I got all the various windows auto updates. I installed a pair of games and fired one up. The game ran until I was at the loading screen just before the game starts... and then froze up completely (couldn't get to the task manager via ctrl-alt-del). I tried again. Same result. Other game. Same result. After that at two seemingly random times the computer has just frozen up.
At one point I got a message suggesting I should install a vga driver or video control device when I was installing the latest Radeon Catalyst 5.1 drivers. That installation couldn't be completed succesfully. I went into the device manager control panel and ascertained that I have no video control device installed on my computer, but am uncertain what getting one entails. I did a google search but couldn't find anything new or even recent, all the vga controllers seemed to be for older versions of windows.
I suspect that the games are unable to initialize some video control device or another that doesn't exist. I should work on that. But I am confused and horribly angered by the fact that the computer has frozen several times for no apparent reason. ANyone know why this might be happening?
