I recently bought an ATI Radeon 9250 256mb, my computer comes with an nVIDA nforce chipset (Driver: nVIDA Geforce 2 Integrated GPU, VGA compatible). It worked great at first but later i started having problems. Logan (Deathbringer) helped me get it working again...sortof. What he told me to do was to uninstall the previous nVIDA drivers and use a driver cleaner to erase everything the uninstaller did not. It made sense, then i was to put the Radeon card in, start in safe mode and uninstall the Radeon drivers and clean off all the ATI drivers using the DC again. I restarted the computer normally and installed the latest ATI catalyst drivers from the website. I restarted the computer again.

I guess running the computer is fine, except i noticed a few issues:

1. Whenever i minimize a window (the third button from the top right hand corner), I'll see that little animation bringing the window down, but the screen will just hang there for a second before actually minimizing.

2. After installing the ATI drivers and restarting, i kept getting an error message saying the driver restarted itself because of a problem.

3. Whenever the computer starts and goes into the login screen, it'll sortof "fade" right? Well my screen will have like a normal screen (Windows is Starting screen), then a half-grey normal screen, then the login screen. All within a half a second of each other.

Before, all i had to do was remove the ATI card, and everything ran smoothly again. Now even if i remove it I'll get these poor animation problems. Probably because i removed the nVIDA drivers. What i didn't clean from the driver cleaner though, was the one marked "nforce chipset". Is this necessary?

Also, everytime i start my computer, the "power light" beside my "power button" turns red instead of green and starts blinking. The monitor shows nothing at all. I have to turn it off and turn it on again. (And one press of the power button will do it, instead of pressing and holding it) I've been having so many problems with this i hope anyone can help me, the forum in Sapphire technologies website didn't even bother. Thanks!

*Note: I sent this off to moonwitch in a pm because i think she used ot have problems with this too in her previous post?

First try at turning on my computer (Also what happens all the time):
- Press blue power on button
- Beside the power on button, the little green light that's supposed to flash green starts flashing red and there's no indication on the monitor screen, i have no choice but to restart the computer
- I press the power on button again
- This time the computer boots normally
- When it ends up in the login screen,
- I try to click my name but once my cursor goes over the any of the names, all the little display pics of each name will suddenly jump all the way to the right and the computer will hang and never revive itself.
- Turn off computer


Second try at turning on my computer:
- Press blue power on button
- Beside the power on button, the little green light that's supposed to flash green starts flashing red and there's no indication on the monitor screen, i have no choice but to restart the computer
- I press the power on button again
- It starts, the Compaq red logo is the first thing i see. I press F10 for the setup screen.
- I go to PCI devices/controllers (forgot what it is)
- I disable VGA controller which is initally set at IRQ 10.
- I accept everything and save the changes.
- the computer boots up into the login screen.
- I put my cursor over my name, it "glows" like the usual animation but when i put the cursor over any other names it'll make the other 2 display pics jump all the way to the right of the screen and the computer will hang.
- Turn off Computer.

Third try at turning on my computer:
- Press blue power on button
- Beside the power on button, the little green light that's supposed to flash green starts flashing red and there's no indication on the monitor screen, i have no choice but to restart the computer
- I press the power on button again
- It starts, the Compaq red logo is the first thing i see. I press F10 for the setup screen.
- I go to PCI devices/controllers (forgot what it is)
- I disable VGA controller which is initally set at IRQ 10.
- I accept everything and save the changes.
- the computer boots up into the login screen.
- I put my cursor over my name, it "glows" like the usual animation.
- This time, i immediately click it, enter my password and login. It works, but when it loads my desktop, it begins a series of blackouts that end up having a little error screen saying the VPU Recover has reset the graphics accelerator or something and asked me to send an error report.