ATI Radeon 3400 series problem

I've had my computer for over a year now, and when I got it, it was running Windows Vista. A couple of days ago, I upgraded to Windows 7. The computer has a ATI Radeon 3400 series video card, though I'm not sure where to find exactly what card it is. Anyway, every once in a while, when I had Vista, I would be in the middle of just browsing the web, and, all of the sudden, my screen would freeze up, then everything would go all funky (the colors were right, but the picture was all screwy, I don't know how to explain it), and finally, my screen would go blank, then the picture would come right back up, but the colors would be somewhat off. What I mean is the picture just looked like it had a lot less quality. There would be something down in the bottom right of the screen that said "ATI Radeon... had an error and restarted" or something to that effect. Now that I've upgraded to Windows 7, I was hoping that if it was a software problem between Vista and this card or something, it would go away, but unfortunately, now instead of my picture coming back up after the screen goes all funky, I go to the good ol' blue screen I love so much. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Hello,

Try updating the drivers for your GPU

Check the Nvidia web site

How long have you had this card?

When did u install it? Did u use antistatic bands/ or ground yourself before hand?

I'm asking because this happened to me once when i didnt use a band, it killed the card and it gave strange colour outputs with vertical lines!

That scared me enough to buy antistatic bands and work mat!

Burrell

 

Actually, I bought this computer and it was already built for me straight from dell. I do build some of my computers, but I was getting this for college and decided I wanted the warranty stuff for it. I'll try updating stuff, though.

 

what are your system specs (does it have onboard graphics?), what make and model power supply do you have?

One thing you can do (if you have onboard graphics) is to uninstall the drivers (ati3400) and ati control panel if installed, shutdown the pc, unplug for a minute and pull the card out. reboot using the onboard graphics, let it load up then re-shutdown, reinstall the video card and let windows 7 choose the driver automatically. That may solve your problem in the event it is a driver conflict.

 

if detroit's suggestion doesnt work, then i would say your card isnt win 7 compatible or its had some kind of static shock.

Can you try another card in the system?


Burrell