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- Lancaster, CA
This is weird to me...
I installed the new Sapphire card on a brand new NF7-S v2.0 motherboard and loaded a fresh install of Windows 2000 Adv. Server.
The card worked fine when it was just running without any drivers. It wasn't until the time when I installed the latest Catalyst drivers after installing Service Pack 4, and the latest nForce 2 chipset drivers that it started acting up.
When I am prompted to restart after installing ATI's drivers, here is what happens:
The system boots up normally and I get to the screen where you are asked to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then type in your password. After I type in my password, the system hangs for a split second and then flips right back to the window asking me to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE again.
The cycle just keeps repeating itself and ocasionally it will hang up and stop repsonding and I am forced to restart. If I load up in safe mode, it works just fine. So this tells me that it is most likely a driver related isssue. Although I am sure someone out there has the same setup as I do...
Any ideas as to what the problem could be?
I have already tried to install other versions of the ATI and nForce2 drivers, with no luck. The one thing I didn't try was to update my bios. I just got this board as an RMA replacement and I noticed something weird about the BIOS date on the POST screen. It said something like this 12/24/2020. That was weird to me. So I decided to flash to the latest BIOS and I accidentally flashed it to the latest BIOS for the 1.1-2 revision. Of course I am screwed and I had to order a new chip.
Any ideas guys?
I installed the new Sapphire card on a brand new NF7-S v2.0 motherboard and loaded a fresh install of Windows 2000 Adv. Server.
The card worked fine when it was just running without any drivers. It wasn't until the time when I installed the latest Catalyst drivers after installing Service Pack 4, and the latest nForce 2 chipset drivers that it started acting up.
When I am prompted to restart after installing ATI's drivers, here is what happens:
The system boots up normally and I get to the screen where you are asked to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then type in your password. After I type in my password, the system hangs for a split second and then flips right back to the window asking me to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE again.
The cycle just keeps repeating itself and ocasionally it will hang up and stop repsonding and I am forced to restart. If I load up in safe mode, it works just fine. So this tells me that it is most likely a driver related isssue. Although I am sure someone out there has the same setup as I do...
Any ideas as to what the problem could be?
I have already tried to install other versions of the ATI and nForce2 drivers, with no luck. The one thing I didn't try was to update my bios. I just got this board as an RMA replacement and I noticed something weird about the BIOS date on the POST screen. It said something like this 12/24/2020. That was weird to me. So I decided to flash to the latest BIOS and I accidentally flashed it to the latest BIOS for the 1.1-2 revision. Of course I am screwed and I had to order a new chip.
Any ideas guys?
