bobhoskins
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Help. I am having major problems with my Gateway Solo 9300 upgrading to XP Professional.
I recently installed a new HDD and decided to upgrade to XP Pro. Everything went smoothly with the XP install and I had no problems with the machine (Apart from a small problem with it taking 45 seconds to go into standby the second attempt).
Anyway I had been reading the posts regarding the ATI Rage video drivers so downloaded 5772.zip from Geocities.
I installed them and everything seemed to be fine. I had no error messages and XP seemed to be unaffected. I got all the advanced features of the ATI card and was quite pleased.
But now I installed WinDVD4 and started to watch movies. Everything is OK if I power on my 9300 and then run WinDVD once XP has loaded. But then if I went into Standby and came out again a second time, when I tried running WinDVD it would first freeze and then the computer would shut itself off and then restart again like the power had been turned off / on. When XP came up I got the error message:-
Computer restarted after an unexpected shutdown. MS windows detected a possible device failure.
The display driver for RAGE Mobility-P (English) seems to be responsible for the system instability.
The error report was:-
szAppName: Drivers.Display szAppVer: 10024C4D649300107B
szModName: ati2drab.dll szModVer: 5.1.2500.5772
Offset: 258706EA
I could run WinDVD again no problems but again after each resume from standby I get the same problems.
I first tried changing the ATI display drivers from Rage Mobility-P to Rage Mobility-M1 but the results were exactly the same (Probably due to the same ati2drab.dll file).
My drivers are as follows:-
Rage Mobility-M1 AGP 2x (English)
Bios 4.236
Date 2000/4/12
Ram 8.0M
Type SGRAM
Driver: ati2drab.dll
Release Ver: M6.12.39 BigZ
Ati2drab.dll file version 5.01.2500.5772
Problem is I rolled back my video driver back to the standard set of XP drivers:-
Atidrab.dll
Microsoft Driver Ver: 5.1.2001
File Version: 5.01.2195.5012
And I still get the same lockup & restart with WinDVD and a different error at XP startup:-
BCC Code: 100000ea BCP1: 81427770 BCP2: 815A00008
BCP3: 8176A170 BCP4:00000001 OSVer: 5_1_2600 SP:0_0
Product: 256_1
I get this everytime I now restart XP.
I have tried with PowerDVD4 WinDVD basic and Platinum with same results each time.
Help me please. Has anyone had this problem and how do I resolve it. I am going to do another format and reload of XP tonight so will have a clean system again by tomorrow. I am now contemplating installing Widows2000 Pro and forgetting XP all together.
Has anyone experienced problems installing Win2000 on a Solo 9300. It seems like there are at least more Win2000 drivers available for the 9300.
I recently installed a new HDD and decided to upgrade to XP Pro. Everything went smoothly with the XP install and I had no problems with the machine (Apart from a small problem with it taking 45 seconds to go into standby the second attempt).
Anyway I had been reading the posts regarding the ATI Rage video drivers so downloaded 5772.zip from Geocities.
I installed them and everything seemed to be fine. I had no error messages and XP seemed to be unaffected. I got all the advanced features of the ATI card and was quite pleased.
But now I installed WinDVD4 and started to watch movies. Everything is OK if I power on my 9300 and then run WinDVD once XP has loaded. But then if I went into Standby and came out again a second time, when I tried running WinDVD it would first freeze and then the computer would shut itself off and then restart again like the power had been turned off / on. When XP came up I got the error message:-
Computer restarted after an unexpected shutdown. MS windows detected a possible device failure.
The display driver for RAGE Mobility-P (English) seems to be responsible for the system instability.
The error report was:-
szAppName: Drivers.Display szAppVer: 10024C4D649300107B
szModName: ati2drab.dll szModVer: 5.1.2500.5772
Offset: 258706EA
I could run WinDVD again no problems but again after each resume from standby I get the same problems.
I first tried changing the ATI display drivers from Rage Mobility-P to Rage Mobility-M1 but the results were exactly the same (Probably due to the same ati2drab.dll file).
My drivers are as follows:-
Rage Mobility-M1 AGP 2x (English)
Bios 4.236
Date 2000/4/12
Ram 8.0M
Type SGRAM
Driver: ati2drab.dll
Release Ver: M6.12.39 BigZ
Ati2drab.dll file version 5.01.2500.5772
Problem is I rolled back my video driver back to the standard set of XP drivers:-
Atidrab.dll
Microsoft Driver Ver: 5.1.2001
File Version: 5.01.2195.5012
And I still get the same lockup & restart with WinDVD and a different error at XP startup:-
BCC Code: 100000ea BCP1: 81427770 BCP2: 815A00008
BCP3: 8176A170 BCP4:00000001 OSVer: 5_1_2600 SP:0_0
Product: 256_1
I get this everytime I now restart XP.
I have tried with PowerDVD4 WinDVD basic and Platinum with same results each time.
Help me please. Has anyone had this problem and how do I resolve it. I am going to do another format and reload of XP tonight so will have a clean system again by tomorrow. I am now contemplating installing Widows2000 Pro and forgetting XP all together.
Has anyone experienced problems installing Win2000 on a Solo 9300. It seems like there are at least more Win2000 drivers available for the 9300.