help gaming problem

[william6]

I an having a problem mith my games. My cmbo as i start to play the CP just goes to a blank screen and restarts. hear are my pc specs:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Build 2600

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name FAMILYCP

System Manufacturer GATEWA

System Model N0CPP063

System Type X86-based PC

Processor x86 Family 15 Model 0 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~1296 Mhz

BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551, 8/20/2001

SMBIOS Version 2.3

Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS

System Directory C:\WINDOWS\System32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)"

User Name FAMILYCP\William Poole

Time Zone Pacific Standard Time

Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB

Available Physical Memory 327.86 MB

Total Virtual Memory 4.88 GB

Available Virtual Memory 4.56 GB

Page File Space 4.38 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

0xFF800000-0xFF8FFFFF Intel® 82850/82860 Processor to AGP Controller - 2532 OK

0xD6900000-0xF69FFFFF Intel® 82850/82860 Processor to AGP Controller - 2532 OK

0xF8000000-0xFBFFFFFF Intel® 82850/82860 Processor to AGP Controller - 2532 OK

0xE8000000-0xEFFFFFFF RADEON 9000 PRO OK

0xFF8F0000-0xFF8FFFFF RADEON 9000 PRO OK

0xE0000000-0xE7FFFFFF RADEON 9000 PRO - Secondary OK

0xFF8E0000-0xFF8EFFFF RADEON 9000 PRO - Secondary OK

0xFF9FFC00-0xFF9FFCFF SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211 Series) OK

0xFF9FE000-0xFF9FEFFF BCM V.90 56K Modem OK

0xFFF00000-0xFFFFFFFF Intel® 82802 Firmware Hub Device OK

0xFFB00000-0xFFBFFFFF Intel® 82802 Firmware Hub Device OK

0x0000-0x9FFFF System board OK

0xFEE00000-0xFEE00FFF System board OK

0xA0000-0xBFFFF Intel® 82850/82860 Processor to AGP Controller - 2532 OK

0xA0000-0xBFFFF RADEON 9000 PRO OK

0xE0000-0xFFFFF System board OK

0x100000-0x1FFFFFFF System board OK

0x20000000-0xFFAFFFFF PCI bus OK

Name RADEON 9000 PRO

PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4966&SUBSYS_00021002&REV_01\4&252D6E8&0&0008

Adapter Type Radeon 9000 (IF) Pro, ATI Technologies Inc. compatible

Adapter Description RADEON 9000 PRO

Adapter RAM 128.00 MB (134,217,728 bytes)

Installed Drivers ati2dvag.dll

Driver Version 5.1.2600.0

INF File oem3.inf (ati2mtag_RV250 section)

Color Planes 1

Color Table Entries 65536

Resolution 1024 x 768 x 60 hertz

Bits/Pixel 16

Memory Address 0xE8000000-0xEFFFFFFF

I/O Port 0x0000C800-0x0000C8FF

Memory Address 0xFF8F0000-0xFF8FFFFF

IRQ Channel IRQ 11

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF

Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\ati2mtag.sys (6.13.10.6218, 527.63 KB (540,288 bytes), 11/7/2002 10:20 PM)

Name RADEON 9000 PRO - Secondary

PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_496E&SUBSYS_00031002&REV_01\4&252D6E8&0&0108

Adapter Type Radeon 9000 (IF) Pro, ATI Technologies Inc. compatible

Adapter Description RADEON 9000 PRO - Secondary

Adapter RAM 128.00 MB (134,217,728 bytes)

Installed Drivers ati2dvag.dll

Driver Version 5.1.2600.0

INF File oem3.inf (ati2mtag_RV250 section)

Color Planes Not Available

Color Table Entries Not Available

Resolution Not Available

Bits/Pixel Not Available

Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xE7FFFFFF

Memory Address 0xFF8E0000-0xFF8EFFFF

Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\ati2mtag.sys (6.13.10.6218, 527.63 KB (540,288 bytes), 11/7/2002 10:20 PM)

Name Creative Sound Blaster PCI128 (WDM)

Manufacturer Creative Technology Ltd.

Status OK

PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1274&DEV_1371&SUBSYS_13711274&REV_09\4&2B96F39&0&50F0

I/O Port 0x0000DF00-0x0000DF3F

IRQ Channel IRQ 3

Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\sbpci.sys (5.12.01.2065, 481.13 KB (492,672 bytes), 10/26/2001 2:00 AM)

Name Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device

Manufacturer Microsoft

Status OK

PNP Device ID MODEMWAVE\0\{AE1EF17B-6527-4CC1-AF8A-4441FD035E1C}

Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\modemcsa.sys (5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148), 15.75 KB (16,128 bytes), 12/13/2002 10:43 PM)

Please help

William Poole

[Schrullenhaft]

I suggest downloading and installing Catalyst 2.3, which isn't the latest driver (v. 2.5). It's the second driver in this list.

Some users of Catalyst 2.4 (and possibly 2.5) have reported the 'blank screen' problem, with may be due to FSAA (which ATI calls something else). However the easiest bet is to go back to 2.3.

Looking at your current drivers it seems, according to the version numbers, that you have a driver that was actually intended for Windows 2000 rather than XP (though they're often interchangable).