Topic: Device failure in windows xp home (Read 9271 times)

[RS]Cincinnatus · « **Reply #20 on:** February 11, 2003, 02:31:04 pm »

HEHE, the past few posts since my post have been boggling because of various responses to MY problem and to USSDelta's problem.

Anyway... about -my- problem

Here are the results of various tests people have presented:
I followed the "uninstall drivers, reinstall dx9, reinstall drivers" procedure. Same error

I tried downgrading to the latest reference drivers for Catalyst (2.5). No go.

I then tried DX 8.1 and Catalyst 2.5 (by doing a massive system restore back to December 17th.) The problem was fixed, but the reason I upgraded to DX9 and Catalyst 3.0 is because I needed them to fix several errors and enable several features. If reverting to ancient drivers that do not incorporate the following necessities...

run Armada 2
use truform
use fast writes
play Asheron's Call 2 and Serious Sam 2 without SERIOUS display corruption
allow 16x Anisotropic Filtering
run things 24% slower according to all benchmarks and tests
allow over and underclocking
properly display vid card and RAM temperatures
properly read my video RAM as 128mb ddr instead of 64mb sdr
stop the random hard drive demounts (yes- ouch )

....is the only way I can get my system to stop crashing, I may as well reformat my hard drive to clear out the ATI drivers and pop my (slower) GeForce 3 in, as it will probably end up running faster than the Radeon 9700 on Catalyst 2.5, and the GeForce will CERTAINLY have fewer bugs (I used the Geforce 3 for almost 2 years and after the very first driver patch I never had any graphics-related performance OR stability issues, anywhere, and I am a hardcore gamer and graphics editor. Perhaps what I need is a "faster" GeForce, as long as the same rock-solid stability remains.)

So please, what is your secret? How can I get these "WHQL certified" [ha! hahahahahaha!] Catalyst 3.0 drivers to work?!

BTW: to try one last suggestion by a poster, I will include the dxdiag readout now. Edited to reduce the length of this already long post. Hey, considering the size of some peoples' signatures+pics, this isn't TOO bad.

Many thanks to any who have actually read the DxDiag report even if you don't have any suggestions

EDIT:There is a problem with attaching files here. Apparently, according to the FAQ, you can't.

I'm not going to post it here because it is gigantic, it will take up almost an entire page of this thread. Ridding myself of frustration is not worth a whole page.

But on the other hand.. if anyone really would like to help I can email it to you... post your email here if interested... TIA!

USSDelta · « **Reply #21 on:** February 11, 2003, 02:41:11 pm »

goto start - run then type in dxdiag, when the bar at the bottem of the screen has vanished goto the display part, then click on test direct3d, if it comes up about something about your display drivers not being compatable with direct3d 9 then goto your graphics card manufacturers website and download the latest drivers, install them and run the test again, you shouldn't have any problem with direct3d, that may have been the problem, i'll get back to you on that

USSDelta · « **Reply #22 on:** February 11, 2003, 02:55:29 pm »

IT WORKS!!!!

Rod O'neal · « **Reply #23 on:** February 11, 2003, 03:06:16 pm »

After reading this post I went to ATI's site and found that there are newer drivers and control panel available. Released yesterday. Seems like USSDelta allready found them though. Anybody else having probs might want to check it out

USSDelta · « **Reply #24 on:** February 11, 2003, 06:19:21 pm »

mine aren't the most upto date, but they work fine, so does SFC 3, that works perectly(finaly)

Dash Jones · « **Reply #25 on:** February 11, 2003, 06:30:28 pm »

Glad to hear they work. My drivers have been working fine on the ATI...but I also have refrained from upgrading to DX 9 yet due to some things I had heard concerning it. If the new drivers are clearing things up, I might finally upgrade to it...maybe.

USSDelta · « **Reply #26 on:** February 05, 2003, 06:01:28 pm »

when i try to play after a while in the campiagn and skermish modes i get an error from windows saying theres a device failure though it don't say which device

my pc specs are as followed

win xp home
amd athlon XP 1900+
S3 graphics Pro savage
direct x 9(though i got the patch)
500+mb SDR RAM

please help me

BuckStrider · « **Reply #27 on:** February 05, 2003, 09:14:01 pm »

I don't understand...Does the game just crash and you end up back at your desktop?...Do you play for a bit,then it crashes?

My game crashes as well in single player (says that I have an EAX problem...I REALLY dont think I have a problem)

Sometimes I crash fast..Other times it takes an hour or so.

In any event..Who knows?...Well...I do know 1 group of people that know

Pestalence · « **Reply #28 on:** February 05, 2003, 10:01:46 pm »

Quote:

I don't understand...Does the game just crash and you end up back at your desktop?...Do you play for a bit,then it crashes?

My game crashes as well in single player (says that I have an EAX problem...I REALLY dont think I have a problem)

Sometimes I crash fast..Other times it takes an hour or so.

In any event..Who knows?...Well...I do know 1 group of people that know

Buck,
Are you using any soundblaster equipment on your system? If so, then check out the Soundblaster EAX page.. they may have a solution to your problem...

http://www.soundblaster.com/eax/

USSDelta · « **Reply #29 on:** February 06, 2003, 06:39:54 am »

i'm fine in the menus when you set up the skirmish or are choosing the mission you want in the campign, it's just in the game while in a skirmish or playing a mission it crashes to the desktop and windows pops up that message

USSDelta · « **Reply #30 on:** February 07, 2003, 07:49:34 am »

doesn't anyone know how to fix this

Dash Jones · « **Reply #31 on:** February 07, 2003, 08:08:33 am »

No clue. Are your drivers up to date?

ksfung · « **Reply #32 on:** February 07, 2003, 08:22:50 am »

Go into the event handler and see what the device error is.

Control Panel -> Admin -> Event Manager

look at the hardeare and application logs

[RS]Cincinnatus · « **Reply #33 on:** February 07, 2003, 12:22:19 pm »

From the Event Handler:

Event Type:   Error
Event Source:   ati2mtag
Event Category:   None
Event ID:   108
Date:      2/7/2003
Time:      12:22:55 PM
User:      N/A
Computer:   [removed by me for privacy]
Description:
The driver ati2dvag for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00000000 00520003 00000000 c004006c
0010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0020: 00000000 00000000
//==========================================
So what's going on?? We have pretty dissimilar systems, yet get the same error. BTW does your desktop switch to 640x480 resolution and 4 colors when this error occurs? Mine does. And this error occurs not only SFC3 but in any application at all where video card demands are high: Warcraft 3, web browsing certain pages, Asheron's Call 2, Jedi Knight 2, the list goes on...
This problem has been bugging me for over a month. I can't seem to resolve it after MANY different driver tweaks. The ONLY thing I can see from here that I have in common with USSDelta is we both have DX9 and XP Home. We have a totally different vid card/sound setup. I swear, if this is a DX9 problem I'll never forgive Microsoft.... DX 9.0 clearly states it is not a beta, it is the runtime for home users... if it can't properly interface with WHQL certified ATI Catalyst 3.0 drivers posted on 12/18/2002 then I see no reason for DirectX to exist as a software library at all - they can't even keep up with their own Windows Hardware Quality Labs!

XP Professional
Directx 9*
P4 2.5 ghz
Soyo P4X400 motherboard (latest VIA Pentium 4 chipset)
SB Audigy Gamer*
PowerColor brand generic R300 chipset (100% Radeon 9700 compatible)*
Maxtor 98196H8 80.0 gb hard disk
2 (Two) case-mounted USB 2.0 controller boards, 4 sockets each
450w ATX power supply
500 mb DDRAM

Possible problematic BIOS Settings
Fast Write combining for AGP: ENABLED*
Video BIOS Shadow: DISABLED*
DBI Output for AGP 3.0: ENABLED
System BIOS Cacheable: ENABLED
* = Possible problem?

If anyone sees a glaring mistake here - be it incompatability or a known bug - let me know!

USSDelta · « **Reply #34 on:** February 09, 2003, 02:39:20 pm »

yeah, mine does goto a 600x480 screen with 4 colours, and the only way i can sort it out is to restart my pc

and my drivers should be upto date

Laflin · « **Reply #35 on:** February 09, 2003, 03:21:01 pm »

I've been running EAW on XP Pro and DX9 with no problems...

zaniwhoop2 · « **Reply #36 on:** February 09, 2003, 07:18:42 pm »

Try sytem restore to pre DX9 (if possible)
Uninstall drivers
Reboot
Install DX9
Reboot
Install Drivers

That might work. I have had device failures on my video card before (never the Radeon 9700 though, only the Kyro 2), but only with UT2K3. Whenever I got a device failure, it was after I had to restart the computer after it locked up. I don't have SFC3, but SFC2 works just fine.

USSDelta · « **Reply #39 on:** February 10, 2003, 02:18:26 pm »

i have got an LCD moniter, but i can run SFC 2 Orion Pirates, i have got another pc that it works on but i'd rather play it on this one

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