Asus EAH 4850

[ssg10587]

I have been having this problem for a while now. I have an acer 19'' screen and an ASUS EAH4850 as the title suggests. My problem is that when I am playing games or just doing something related to video get weird errors. They are:

1) Blue Screen saying a driver is in infinite loop and the system was shut down
2) Blue screen relating to file ati2diag saying driver malfunction
3) My screen doesnt show xp login screen it shows the xp loading screen the my monitor turns loses input for some reason and the light on it is orange instead of green. This also happened when I was in a game. The monitor lost input but I had itunes on and the music was still playing.

I have reinstalled drivers many times. I got rid of 8.12 recently and I am now on 9.1
I am thinking maybe I am uninstalling them wrong so here is what i do:

1) use the ati software utility to do the 2nd option: remove all ati components (graphics/chipset). I dont have an ati chipset so i didnt think this was a problem.
2) Reboot then I run driver cleaner pro and run cab cleaner on driver.cab and sp3.cab. There also are two things of sp3.cab for some reason on the drop down.
3) run the driver cleaner to get rid of all the files.
4)reboot and install new drivers.

Also for my settings on my ati as this could be the problem. I have custom on the main slider. application settings for AA and anisotropic filtering. I have adaptive AA on set to quality as well as mipmap detail level.

I apologize for the long read. I wanted to try and include as much information about this as possible to see if I was going wrong somewhere. I have rmaed the card in the past and asus sucks with it and apparently there wasnt anything wrong with it.

Also I reinserted the graphics card and the clip that holds it in fell off. Is this a big problem? I wasnt even really fiddling with it and it popped off so...

 

[ssg10587]

Anybody have any clue?

 

[Specialist[X]]

hmm maybe try a diff card from ati?

 

[Talonz]

I have a similar laundry list of problems with the same card:

Under XP:

1) 9.1 Cat's CCC fails to recognize card, won't start control panel
fixed by installing drivers, then ccc seperately.
This did not happen the first time I installed the CCC/Drivers bundle

2) Certain games will cause the card to send an out of range signal to the monitor and the lock the computer after 15-30 seconds. The repeatable culprit is Defense Grid Demo from Steam. Problem solved through the same steps as in #1

3) Folding@Home for GPU causes random VPU recovers only in the GUI mode. However, it can also run for a long period of time. Seems to be related to user input. Doesn't have a problem when running minimized to tray. Not solved.

Vista:

1) DVI doesn't work, period. Where I would normally get the login screen, I just get no signal from the computer. Temporary solution: connect VGA and it works. I can also get a signal through DVI by connecting VGA & DVI at the same time, and having the drivers set to clone the desktop. Removing the VGA cable immediately makes it stop working.

I have had nothing but trouble with this card, but I'm not sure if it's related to my motherboard. I'm going back to nvidia by next generation if not sooner, which is really too bad since it's a great card when it works (most of the time).