Radeon X1650- Ati2dvag infinite loop/Power save enable/etcerrors/@WITS END/help plz

After just getting my PC up and running again after a month or 2 by the

reset bios jumper since I'd accidentally set it to detect system fan, a

few days later having played this game Roma Victor since Februrary up to

the point it up and 2 days after fixing it... I load it up and a

few minutes into the game it freezes. The whole computer. It wouldn't

let me alt tab, use ctrl alt del, nothing. Restart manually, and I start

getting "ati2dvag.dll" infinite loop errors, sometimes at load up,

sometimes before windows even loads, sometimes at desktop. Other times

the windows loading screen will be scrambled.

Now I'd had trouble when I first started playing this game as it froze

every 2-5 minutes, but it didn't take the whole comp with it. I resolved

that after I found the solution to change "VIA CPU to AGP controller" to

"PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge" and it's been set on that ever since.

I've had minimal success switching around options in catalyst control

center. The best I'll get is a half an hour out of the game, and then it

screws up again, the bulk of the time within 10 seconds or less it

freezes up, even on the loading screen now and again. I also get just as

often "power saving enable monitor will shut down..." messages and every

so often a "frequency out of range" error. My HDD temp shows

consistently at lower 30s celsius and below...

My graphics card is a Radeon X1650

I'm running Windows XP SP3

I've tried

- changing screen refresh rate

- enabling/disabling write combining

- enabling/disabling vpu recover

- changing agp speed between off and 4x

- setting 3d gpu settings to performance instead of quality

- changing 3d refresh rate override between disabled/set to

desktop/60hz

- and combinations of these ^

- uninstalling display adapters in device manager and uninstalling

drivers in add/remove programs then try different graphics card

compatible drivers from amds website from 9.2 package to 9.3

- restoring computer to multiple earlier points

- running a full disk check

From hours of googling these specific errors related to amd and radeon

the problem seems widespread but mine came out of nowhere. I don't

remember downloading anything or making ANY setting changes. I was

playing my game fine for hours, closed it, loaded up later and bam. I'm

pretty much fed up with scouring forums with no results

RE: Radeon X1650- Ati2dvag infinite loop/Power save enable/etcerrors/@

Try power-off to pc,remove battery,locate & move the CMOS jumper pin

from 1-2 to 2-3 position for 20 seconds or so,then move the pins back to 1-2

position,replace battery.On pc start,enter BIOS,set the basics

(date/time/etc),

locate at exit page,load set-up defaults,or performance settings,return to

BIOS

& set for add-ins (video card,sound,etc),save & exit BIOS.

"softmachine" wrote:

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>

> After just getting my PC up and running again after a month or 2 by the

> reset bios jumper since I'd accidentally set it to detect system fan, a

> few days later having played this game Roma Victor since Februrary up to

> the point it up and 2 days after fixing it... I load it up and a

> few minutes into the game it freezes. The whole computer. It wouldn't

> let me alt tab, use ctrl alt del, nothing. Restart manually, and I start

> getting "ati2dvag.dll" infinite loop errors, sometimes at load up,

> sometimes before windows even loads, sometimes at desktop. Other times

> the windows loading screen will be scrambled.

>

> Now I'd had trouble when I first started playing this game as it froze

> every 2-5 minutes, but it didn't take the whole comp with it. I resolved

> that after I found the solution to change "VIA CPU to AGP controller" to

> "PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge" and it's been set on that ever since.

> I've had minimal success switching around options in catalyst control

> center. The best I'll get is a half an hour out of the game, and then it

> screws up again, the bulk of the time within 10 seconds or less it

> freezes up, even on the loading screen now and again. I also get just as

> often "power saving enable monitor will shut down..." messages and every

> so often a "frequency out of range" error. My HDD temp shows

> consistently at lower 30s celsius and below...

>

> My graphics card is a Radeon X1650

> I'm running Windows XP SP3

>

> I've tried

> - changing screen refresh rate

> - enabling/disabling write combining

> - enabling/disabling vpu recover

> - changing agp speed between off and 4x

> - setting 3d gpu settings to performance instead of quality

> - changing 3d refresh rate override between disabled/set to

> desktop/60hz

> - and combinations of these ^

> - uninstalling display adapters in device manager and uninstalling

> drivers in add/remove programs then try different graphics card

> compatible drivers from amds website from 9.2 package to 9.3

> - restoring computer to multiple earlier points

> - running a full disk check

>

> From hours of googling these specific errors related to amd and radeon

> the problem seems widespread but mine came out of nowhere. I don't

> remember downloading anything or making ANY setting changes. I was

> playing my game fine for hours, closed it, loaded up later and bam. I'm

> pretty much fed up with scouring forums with no results

>

>

> </span>