ATI Radeon 9600 XT Driver Errors

[Tatsumi888]

Hey, I recently reformatted my computer and had to reinstall all the drivers for my hardware. Everything went fine until I was installing the drivers for my video card, an ATI Radeon 9600XT. First, I installed the driver through Windows Update and restarted my computer. When it got to the Windows XP Welcome Screen, I moved the mouse and the screen went black. I restarted a few times and got the same problem. So I did a system restore to before installing through Windows Update. Next I tried the driver from the disc my card came with. Same problem, so I restored again. Next, I went to ATI's website and downloaded their newest Radeon Driver... Same thing. I had this problem when I first built this PC a bit over a year ago. I fixed it by installing the driver that I found in Windows Update that time, but that doesn't seem to help this time. I am beginning to think that it is just a compatibility issue between my CPU and the card... Or that it's just a garbage card. If that is the case does anyone have any recomendations for a new card around the 100-200 dollar range for a card thats not an ATI?

Here's my setup:
AMD Athlon 64 2800+
AOpen AK86-L Motherboard
2x512mb PC3200 Ram
450w power supply
ATI 128mb Radeon 9600XT card
If any additional info is needed just ask

Thanks for all the help,
Tatsumi888

[icecube]

Check to make sure that the card is fully seated in its slot.

The second thing I would try, is to set the video to regular VGA in device manager and then reboot. Then try to reinstall the drivers for the card.

[Junior_co]

I recently found in my BIOS that there was a spot where I could set my primary graphics slot...

there was a choice of PCI and AGP... my MB was set to PCI and it was really messing with my system....

Might check that out...

Good luck

Junior