ATI driver help

[EineBeBoP]

Im on a friends laptop ATM, and were having driver problems (were assuming, nothing else has worked short of A) new laptop B) formating [[which were working on right now]])

anyone know wtf is wrong? when i load halo, the screen flashes and lines appear from everywhere. Ill get a screen if i can. but ive tryed all sorts of drivers, and nothing has helped.

the laptop has a ATI radeon mobility 9000.

weve tryed all sorts of drivers, and are preparing to wipe the HD.

any help is appreciated :)

[Navaron]

I'd check the halo boards and see if anyone else is having the same problem before I'd wipe anything. When the newest driver was installed, was the old uninstalled completely? Radeon drivers have to be installed exactly how the instructions say.

[EineBeBoP]

http://www.valdosta.edu/~swbrogdo/UploadFiles/halofreakinout.jpg

fucking laptop I hate you.

[Sputty]

What Nav says is about the best you can do. Make sure you have Catalyst 3.8 too.

[EineBeBoP]

http://www.valdosta.edu/~swbrogdo/UploadFiles/halofreakinout2.jpg

uninstalled, then reinstalled again and got that.

sputty, can u link me thoes drivers? ill try them out. (they work on a mobility right? most dont work on them unless they say so)

[EineBeBoP]

well, tryed installing old drivers 9came on CD with laptop)
didnt work. gunna wipe the HD now.

[NoSurrender]

powda had "special" laptop drivers. Id go try the omegas 3.7s because the 3.8s are crap.

[Zatrais]

looks alott like a fried chip to me, had the same problem on an older card. Course it could be something completely different but it looks alott like the symptons of a dead chip to me.

[Ait'al]

have you considered your frame rate (60mhz,72mhz) setting is wrong for your monitor capabilities?IE tried it on different settings to see if it helps.

[EineBeBoP]

Yeah, we've tryed all that. fraged the HD now, and it still has problems. my friend is trying to get fujitsu to take it back, and give him a new laptop.

[Ait'al]

test waht zat said and open it up and try another spare card in it. Or close to it and see how it performs. Or if you have a good enough onboard card try reinstalling/reactivating it and try it too.

If you can do that and show its the card, If its still on waranty or ther just nice, you can tell them that and they may send you a new card and just put it in instead of a whole new laptop.

[EineBeBoP]

..its a laptop. you can replace parts of a laptopas easily as a regular comp.

cant take it appart without special tools/extra pieces.

[Ait'al]

you can always try the onboard thing. you dont hve to remove it, just shut it off in your comp and turn the other one on. atleast for a quick test.(NM, if you dont have one.)