Service Pack 2 = Screen Blacking Out

I have installed and uninstalled service pack 2 three times now and each time
I install it, it seems to cause graphical gliches in games and mess up the
video feed to my monitor at random intervals causing the screen to go black
untill a restart making using the computer almost impossible to use while sp2
is installed. I have a asus p4p800 motherboard, Ati radeon 9800 pro and, one
stick of hyperx 512mb ram if you need more info to analise the problem just
ask. I would also like to know if anyone else is having this problem.

Have you tried using the latest windows XP drivers from the hardware
manufacturer?
Especially video and motherboard drivers?

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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"Algammon" <> wrote in message
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>I have installed and uninstalled service pack 2 three times now and
>each time
> I install it, it seems to cause graphical gliches in games and mess
> up the
> video feed to my monitor at random intervals causing the screen to
> go black
> untill a restart making using the computer almost impossible to use
> while sp2
> is installed. I have a asus p4p800 motherboard, Ati radeon 9800 pro
> and, one
> stick of hyperx 512mb ram if you need more info to analise the
> problem just
> ask. I would also like to know if anyone else is having this
> problem.

I got the same problem when i installed SP2. Display blank and crash until i
restart. Ramdom occured. I don't know how to fix this.

"Algammon" wrote:

> I have installed and uninstalled service pack 2 three times now and each time
> I install it, it seems to cause graphical gliches in games and mess up the
> video feed to my monitor at random intervals causing the screen to go black
> untill a restart making using the computer almost impossible to use while sp2
> is installed. I have a asus p4p800 motherboard, Ati radeon 9800 pro and, one
> stick of hyperx 512mb ram if you need more info to analise the problem just
> ask. I would also like to know if anyone else is having this problem.

I have the same problem. Random. Several people have suggested that SP2
screws up drivers, various people have mentioned usb mice, sound card
drivers, and CD-DVD drivers. Try re-installing video driver.
I haven't fixed mine yet, but don't know how to re-install drivers
because the program keeps saying I don't need new ones since I have the
latest version and it's "working fine."
But it's not working fine.

Susan

PPP wrote:

> I got the same problem when i installed SP2. Display blank and crash until i
> restart. Ramdom occured. I don't know how to fix this.
>
> "Algammon" wrote:
>
>
>>I have installed and uninstalled service pack 2 three times now and each time
>>I install it, it seems to cause graphical gliches in games and mess up the
>>video feed to my monitor at random intervals causing the screen to go black
>>untill a restart making using the computer almost impossible to use while sp2
>>is installed. I have a asus p4p800 motherboard, Ati radeon 9800 pro and, one
>>stick of hyperx 512mb ram if you need more info to analise the problem just
>>ask. I would also like to know if anyone else is having this problem.

Got one suggestion today that seems to work so far. Uninstall the
Windows file indexing service through the Add/Remove Programs -
Add/Remove Windows components. And make sure it's all gone.
(check task manager for instances of cidaemon.exe)
Susan


Susan Cragin wrote:

I have the same problem. Random. Several people have suggested that SP2
screws up drivers, various people have mentioned usb mice, sound card
drivers, and CD-DVD drivers. Try re-installing video driver.
I haven't fixed mine yet, but don't know how to re-install drivers
because the program keeps saying I don't need new ones since I have the
latest version and it's "working fine."
But it's not working fine.

Susan

PPP wrote:

I got the same problem when i installed SP2. Display blank and crash
until i restart. Ramdom occured. I don't know how to fix this.

"Algammon" wrote:


I have installed and uninstalled service pack 2 three times now and
each time I install it, it seems to cause graphical gliches in games
and mess up the video feed to my monitor at random intervals causing
the screen to go black untill a restart making using the computer
almost impossible to use while sp2 is installed. I have a asus p4p800
motherboard, Ati radeon 9800 pro and, one stick of hyperx 512mb ram
if you need more info to analise the problem just ask. I would also
like to know if anyone else is having this problem.