Before I do my clean install, I was just wondering about this problem...
I went ahead and installed the ATi drivers for the 9800XT and rebooted like you're supposed to. However, after the first flash of the WinXP green status bar, I get no signal on the monitor for about 10 seconds, then the computer reboots itself. The only way I can get it started up is to use the last known good configuration.
Went back in and tried to uninstall the ATi drivers but they were not found. So then I thought that I would try to use the Omega drivers. Same story on the reboot.
Looking in my device manager, I'm seeing that the 9800 Primary and Secondary are there, but they have the yellow "not working" icon. After installing the drivers, I've uninstalled both of the displays and did a scan for new hardware. With the ATi drivers, it came back 9800 P/S with the yellow icon and with the Omega it doesn't come back at all except for a
VGA display adapter.
Any reason why my computer would do the reboot on starting up after I've installed the display drivers? Either way, I'm doing a clean install but I was just curious.
Thanks,
Rob