W3V Vid Card Driver Problem Please Help

Hey everyone,

I was hoping someone more knowledgeable than me with these things could help me out. My notebook is locking up now that I've installed new video card drivers. I have an Asus W3V with XP Pro. I just tried updating my video card drivers today (it's an x600) with the Radeon Omega 3.8.330 drivers. I was using 3.8.2xx without any problems.
I deleted the old drivers, rebooted and then installed the new ones and rebooted again. After reboot performance was noticeably laggy and within a couple minutes the system locked up. This continued. I tried reinstalling again, same result.
Anyone have any ideas? I'd rather just use ATI Catalyst mobility drivers anyways but they don't seem to support Asus notebooks. Anyone found a way to get the new Catalyst drivers to work with the Asus? What about these Omega drivers I'm using now? I don't get what the hell happened.
Any help would be appreciated!

 

Hi Corrid,

I've also noticed that any newer Mobile Catalysts (7.1 and onwards at the very minimum) are disabling 2D acceleration and locking up the W3V when using 3D. The Omega 3.8.330 drivers are based on Catalyst 7.1, so it's no use to go to a new version of the standard ATI drivers. I'm using Catalyst 6.9 right now without problems; I haven't tested 6.10 - 6.12.

It looks like there's a driver-level bug right now - nothing that can be fixed on our end, unless someone finds out there's a specific configuration issue. You'll just have to hold onto slightly older drivers.

 

I appreciate the response Mystic. I'm still messing with the computer, and I'm going to try putting the 6.12 drivers on and see if that works. Being bored in class and deciding to update my video card driver was a mistake today...