Catalyst Display Driver 7.7 and higher
When a digital panel is connected to a Radeon graphics card between Radeon models 9500 and HD2900 (including X300 through X1950) you will see many errors in the Windows event log listed as "CRT invalid display type"; with the source being "ati2mtag".
AMD/ATi has known about this issue since the end of August 2007 and has supposedly been investigating it. I don't know that they have discovered a fix yet as I just downloaded the newest drivers from last December and have these errors popping up in my own event viewer (hence my own Google chase.)
I figured I would try to save others some trouble. Click the link above to get updated information if/when it arrives. At the time of this posting, the article has been viewed 18227 times and only modified once, the day after the original post. I guess they haven't figured it out yet. :)
Their solution is to install Catalyst version 7.6; and they say it won't cause issues to the system or performance (though from my Googling, it sounds like many have had system hangs/random reboots/screen blankouts because of it.) Your mileage may vary. I haven't seen any reboots myself.
Please comment on your experiences with this issue and any better solutions (if any) you've found.
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This is a pain... BIG time. I have been just fine as up until about a day or so ago. nothing had changed. Just all of a sudden... i started getting a few hang up. Nothing much, just annoying. Then just as soon, i was moving a window when the whole system locked up. It never recovered. I had to hard reboot. Watching a movie, same thing. Then i just now had it happen, only this time, it recovered, but not the driver. My scrolling and window animations are VERY sluggish. it's annoying the piss out of me...
fleshth:
Are you getting the same error in your event logs when this behavior happens?
My system started slowing down on me big time last night doing various non-movie, non-gaming things; but using applications that had other smaller animations in them.
My event log is filled with instances of these messages; especially when the slow-downs happen. I agree with the frustration.
Have you tried going back to Catalyst version 7.6 to see if that helps?
Happens the same to me, i'm gonna try 7.6 drivers then
I downloaded the 8.3 Catalyst Drivers and the issue STILL remains.
Frustration doesn't quite describe it...
after the fact (buying new card) I'm able to see error code in event viewer --I got the 4 beep error codes - monitor issue, no video at all! Bought new vid card (to test/eliminate) and prob went away! Going to RMA card but hearing driver solutions has me wondering/wanting to try old card
(800XL) again w/installed newer drivers 8.4 -first time EVER having vid card failure.
Interestingly, as of today (18 May 2008) AMD/ATi has removed the question I linked to in their knowledge-base from their site.
Maybe they've adopted the "Ignore the problem and it will go away." philosophy. :(
I sure hope not, because they've proven that wrong.
Has anyone EVER seen this problem go away with any version of the Catalyst Drivers?
I have the very same problem and it sucks! My computer freezes at random and I have to hard reset. When I check the Log Viewer after reboot, I have this error message :( I have no other problems than this freezing at random times problem. I remember when I had the original drivers for my graphics card (it says ATI Radeon X300/X550/X1050 in Display Settings, I don't know which one I have) it wouldn't freeze at all. I've begun having this problem just as soon as I reformatted and did a fresh XP installation on my PC. The weirdest thing is people having this problem say they encounter the problem when they play games, run heavily-animated programs etc. I, on the othar hand, face this problem quite randomly. i.e. when listening to music on WMP, when surfing on the internet etc. all light duties. I hope we get a solution soon or else I'm never gonna buy an ATI graphics card again!
Just to let everyone know, I just started having this problem using Catalyst 6.2 drivers on a fresh install of Windows 2000 Professional SP4 ... Tried using Omega drivers and still having the same issue
I installed the 8.12 Catalyst Drivers this morning... I'll watch and see if I still get the error.
@PZN: Thanks for the extra info.
It's now been two days... my kids have played many games and done video applications on the machine.
I have yet to see the error with the Catalyst 8.12 drivers.
Let us know if you have the same luck.
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