I have Windows XP Pro SP3 on one of my old rigs that my friend uses in a LAN party playing Warcraft. Almost every game, there are occasions in which his screen turns completely black. He has to alt-tab out of Warcraft 3 to bring the video back up and running. I assume it has something to do with the video card.
I updated the 9200 LE Radeon to the newest 8.5 catalyst software but it won't let me finish the install because its not supported by my video card. I downloaded the old 6.11 9200 Radeon catalyst software and it says it doesn't support this Windows Version. I assume because its SP3.
I am highly considering downgrading to SP2 to get the latest software for the 9200 LE (which is 6.11) but is there a way to stop the screen from going blank?
Cliff Notes
- Comp Specs: P4 2.8 ghz HT, 1gb pc-2700 ram, 9200 Radeon 128mb
- I never had to install any video card from clean XP install
- XP comes with its own video card for the 9200 card
- displays desktop pretty well at 32-bit coloring
- can play wc3 smoothly and fine
- Computer screen turns black in the middle of playin warcraft 3 game
- must alt tab out of wc3 in order to get screen working again
- Installed newest 8.5 catalyst software in AMD website, but no success as it says it doesn't support video card
- Went to AMD website again to find the 9200 software and downloaded it (its 6.11)
- Installed in computer, everything seems to go fine
- tell me to restart computer
- restarted computer and screen is all cheezy in 4/8-bit color mode
- it tells me that the operating system version is not support (assuming its SP3 fault)
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I updated the 9200 LE Radeon to the newest 8.5 catalyst software but it won't let me finish the install because its not supported by my video card. I downloaded the old 6.11 9200 Radeon catalyst software and it says it doesn't support this Windows Version. I assume because its SP3.
I am highly considering downgrading to SP2 to get the latest software for the 9200 LE (which is 6.11) but is there a way to stop the screen from going blank?
Cliff Notes
- Comp Specs: P4 2.8 ghz HT, 1gb pc-2700 ram, 9200 Radeon 128mb
- I never had to install any video card from clean XP install
- XP comes with its own video card for the 9200 card
- displays desktop pretty well at 32-bit coloring
- can play wc3 smoothly and fine
- Computer screen turns black in the middle of playin warcraft 3 game
- must alt tab out of wc3 in order to get screen working again
- Installed newest 8.5 catalyst software in AMD website, but no success as it says it doesn't support video card
- Went to AMD website again to find the 9200 software and downloaded it (its 6.11)
- Installed in computer, everything seems to go fine
- tell me to restart computer
- restarted computer and screen is all cheezy in 4/8-bit color mode
- it tells me that the operating system version is not support (assuming its SP3 fault)
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