I bought an ATI AIW 8500 128 meg two weekends ago to replace the old G400MAX. Install was a breeze and it worked great for a couple of days. Then for no apparent reason(ie no new hard/software) the screen shrank vertically and I could only resize with the monitor controls to the point where a couple of black bands about 6 mm wide remained top and bottom. The really odd part is that the screen stayed squashed even during the bios boot sequence right into windows. I always assumed that the bios boot sequence screen resolution was part of a standard for vid card manufacture.
Since I was installing XP on my wife's comp this last weekend I put the AIW in her machine and there were no problems so it went back into mine and its working fine again with the default XP drivers.
I haven't had time yet to download the latest set from ATI.
Anyone have any thoughts about what could be causing this behaviour?
Since I was installing XP on my wife's comp this last weekend I put the AIW in her machine and there were no problems so it went back into mine and its working fine again with the default XP drivers.
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Anyone have any thoughts about what could be causing this behaviour?
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