Cat 8.1 Hotfix

In eternal optimism I installed these after reading the link First of One
provided about restored functionality for AGP card (Barton 3200, X1650 Pro
512Mb, XP Home SP2) and was immediately treated to the dreaded "Zero Display
Service Error" . Restoring to the Cat 7.5's made it functional again. I
think this X1650 Pro is going on eBay and a 7800GS is in my immediate
future.

So much for the hotfix. Looks like it breaks more things than it fixes...

You should notice a nice speed boost with the 7800GS.

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"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"Augustus" <> wrote in message
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> In eternal optimism I installed these after reading the link First of One
> provided about restored functionality for AGP card (Barton 3200, X1650 Pro
> 512Mb, XP Home SP2) and was immediately treated to the dreaded "Zero
> Display Service Error" . Restoring to the Cat 7.5's made it functional
> again. I think this X1650 Pro is going on eBay and a 7800GS is in my
> immediate future.
>

I gave up two months ago.. running 6200 and all is well... well building a
new machine w/8600gt... no more ati till amd sells it..

stubs

"Augustus" <> wrote in message
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> In eternal optimism I installed these after reading the link First of One
> provided about restored functionality for AGP card (Barton 3200, X1650 Pro
> 512Mb, XP Home SP2) and was immediately treated to the dreaded "Zero
> Display Service Error" . Restoring to the Cat 7.5's made it functional
> again. I think this X1650 Pro is going on eBay and a 7800GS is in my
> immediate future.
>

Sounds like your system is very similar to mine - Barton 3200,
Sapphire X1950 Pro and 2GB DDR400 Dual Channel memory. I formatted
the hard drive c: this morning and did a clean install of Vista Home
Premium 32bit and after all the update installed the ATI 8.1 and had
the same problems as before. Then I read this newgroup and download
the ATI hotfix; after the install my Windows Experiencd Subscore went
from 1.0 to 5.9 for Graphics and from 1.0 to 5.8 for Gaming Graphics.
I also tested the directx device by playing hearts.

Over than that white spot in the upper left hand corner of the desktop
my system seems to be working again. Oops I just noticed you use
Windows XP, I use Vista Home Premium. Hope you get it working.

Al


On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:21:40 GMT, "Augustus" <>
wrote:

>In eternal optimism I installed these after reading the link First of One
>provided about restored functionality for AGP card (Barton 3200, X1650 Pro
>512Mb, XP Home SP2) and was immediately treated to the dreaded "Zero Display
>Service Error" . Restoring to the Cat 7.5's made it functional again. I
>think this X1650 Pro is going on eBay and a 7800GS is in my immediate
>future.
>

Do the Direct3D tests in DXDiag work properly for you too?

The white spot in the upper left hand corner reportedly goes away if you
disable the useless ATi icon in the system tray.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Alfred Kaufmann" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Sounds like your system is very similar to mine - Barton 3200,
> Sapphire X1950 Pro and 2GB DDR400 Dual Channel memory. I formatted
> the hard drive c: this morning and did a clean install of Vista Home
> Premium 32bit and after all the update installed the ATI 8.1 and had
> the same problems as before. Then I read this newgroup and download
> the ATI hotfix; after the install my Windows Experiencd Subscore went
> from 1.0 to 5.9 for Graphics and from 1.0 to 5.8 for Gaming Graphics.
> I also tested the directx device by playing hearts.
>
> Over than that white spot in the upper left hand corner of the desktop
> my system seems to be working again. Oops I just noticed you use
> Windows XP, I use Vista Home Premium. Hope you get it working.
>
> Al
>
>
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:21:40 GMT, "Augustus" <>
> wrote:
>
>>In eternal optimism I installed these after reading the link First of One
>>provided about restored functionality for AGP card (Barton 3200, X1650 Pro
>>512Mb, XP Home SP2) and was immediately treated to the dreaded "Zero
>>Display
>>Service Error" . Restoring to the Cat 7.5's made it functional again. I
>>think this X1650 Pro is going on eBay and a 7800GS is in my immediate
>>future.

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:51:09 -0500, "First of One" <root@127.0.0.1>
wrote:

>Do the Direct3D tests in DXDiag work properly for you too?
>
>The white spot in the upper left hand corner reportedly goes away if you
>disable the useless ATi icon in the system tray.


I ran DXDiag and did not see any problems. The white spot in the
corner is gone now that disabled the useless ATI icon in the tool
tray. Thanks.

BTW I just finished upgrading that system to Vista Home Premium SP1 RC
so unless you are running the same system you may not get the same
results.

Al

Do you find it ironic to run a release-candidate version of a service pack?

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"Alfred Kaufmann" <> wrote in message
news:...
> BTW I just finished upgrading that system to Vista Home Premium SP1 RC
> so unless you are running the same system you may not get the same
> results.
>
> Al