Hello everyone i hope i can explain my problem here ok for everyone, i have a problem loading my video drivers for my ATI x800xl 256mb agp video card i am running for a OS XP Pro 32bit, Ok this started when my hard drive decide to take a dump on me so i installed a brand new HD and reinstalled XP and the video card work fine with the basic window drivers.

but when i went to install the ATI drivers from ATI website it would not install the drivers it would only install the software part, now after i installed the software and apperently the drivers my pc would get to the part where it would shows windows loading with the blue line scrowing across the pc and the it would just keep rebooting.

now also it would get to one screen where it ask you to start windows normaly and i would say yes and that is where it would just keep rebooting, now if i say no and click on the one that says start windows from last known location that worked it would boot up fine but my video looks ok but when you scrow using the mouse the video looks like it is in slow motion.

Again i got all the latest drivers for it of ATI website so i am wondering if maybe the video card is gone bad since it seems not to let me install the drivers for it.

Any body have a clue as to why my video card will not load the drivers.

Thanks.

You need to unistall the Windows drivers first before you can install the ATi drivers over them I think. Boot into Safe mode (press F8 before you get the scrolling bar). Open up device manager and right click on your graphics card (should be under display adapters). Click properties then the Driver tab and unistall the drivers. Reboot and install the ATi drivers and everything should work fine.

Quote: Originally Posted by eascarface You need to unistall the Windows drivers first before you can install the ATi drivers over them I think. Boot into Safe mode (press F8 before you get the scrolling bar). Open up device manager and right click on your graphics card (should be under display adapters). Click properties then the Driver tab and unistall the drivers. Reboot and install the ATi drivers and everything should work fine.

Well i tried everything that you had mentioned and it was a no go, so i ended up finding another AGP video card to use and it is now working perfit, i did notice that when i was trying to install the drivers for my x800xl it smelled funny and was running pretty hot so i think the card chipset must of burned out causing me not to be able to load the drivers for it.

So as of right now it has been running for about 4hrs and running like it should be with no hang ups.

Thanks for your help..