ATI Drivers and the Blue Screen of Death

loopnut · 04-10-2003, 07:53 PM

I've been getting the infamous Blue Screen of Death without fail when running the Aquarium screen saver. I've tried a few different resolutions and color-depths but to no avail. The error invariably references a dll that starts with "ati" (video driver!). I'm running a custom built P4 2.53Ghz w/ an ATI All-In-Wonder 8500 128Meg video board. The latest drivers from ATI (version 6.14.0001.6307) and upgrade to DirectX9 have not been enough for me to avoid these blue-screens and reboots. Anyone else experience this, or have a clue for a frustrated fan of Aquarium screen saver?

Cheers,
Loopnut

feldon34 · 04-10-2003, 09:46 PM

Are you running MA2 or MA1.1?

loopnut · 04-10-2003, 11:05 PM

Have tried both (DEMO ONLY), with same result. Most recent error is in ati3d2ag.dll, error message was something like "error writing to read-only memory", I think. Have also seen "page fault in non-paged area". I saw that one with MA1.1, haven't seen it yet w/ MA2 demo, but haven't had it long either. The wierd part is, it will run, for a while. But after a while (sometimes hours, sometimes minutes, I even saw it die 5 seconds once) it bombs. Nothing helpful in the event log.

theechap · 04-11-2003, 12:45 AM

I have the same vid card, drivers, and dx9. I've never had a problem. Sorry.

drfish · 04-11-2003, 04:52 AM

Same for me, but mine's not an AIW and it only has 64megs...

loopnut · 04-11-2003, 07:04 AM

Based on "theechap"'s comments above, maybe it's not the video drivers. Perhaps the video board itself? That would suck! But if that were the case I would think it would bomb on other 3D screensavers (which it doesn't), or would have crashed and burned when running 3DMark2003 (which it didn't). Both errors are memory-related, right? Could it be a bum DIMM? FYI, I've got a single MULTIWAVE 512MB PC2100 266MHZ NON-ECC CAS2.5 DDR DIMM sitting in a Shuttle AV49N Motherboard with the rest of the hardware mentioned earlier, and that's it (audio & LAN are on the M/B). BIOS is current, I flashed it about 2 weeks ago when I first started trying to figure this problem out.

One last thought for "theechap": How do you have the screensaver configured? (i.e., what resolution, color depth, fish, etc) Which version of Aquarium do you have?

loopnut · 04-11-2003, 11:01 AM

one other note:
Operating system=WinXP Pro SP1

theechap · 04-11-2003, 07:43 PM

i run it at 1024x768x16. i have lionfish always come on and everything else set to random. auto lights, fps limit at 58. i run winxp home sp1.

hope that might help.

04-10-2003, 07:53 PM	#1
loopnut Registered Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 4	ATI Drivers and the Blue Screen of Death I've been getting the infamous Blue Screen of Death without fail when running the Aquarium screen saver. I've tried a few different resolutions and color-depths but to no avail. The error invariably references a dll that starts with "ati" (video driver!). I'm running a custom built P4 2.53Ghz w/ an ATI All-In-Wonder 8500 128Meg video board. The latest drivers from ATI (version 6.14.0001.6307) and upgrade to DirectX9 have not been enough for me to avoid these blue-screens and reboots. Anyone else experience this, or have a clue for a frustrated fan of Aquarium screen saver? Cheers, Loopnut

04-10-2003, 09:46 PM	#2
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,938	Are you running MA2 or MA1.1? "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

04-11-2003, 04:52 AM	#5
drfish the Doc Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Zeeland, MI Posts: 5,353	Same for me, but mine's not an AIW and it only has 64megs... I don't watch commercials.

04-10-2003, 11:05 PM	#3
loopnut Registered Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 4	Have tried both (DEMO ONLY), with same result. Most recent error is in ati3d2ag.dll, error message was something like "error writing to read-only memory", I think. Have also seen "page fault in non-paged area". I saw that one with MA1.1, haven't seen it yet w/ MA2 demo, but haven't had it long either. The wierd part is, it will run, for a while. But after a while (sometimes hours, sometimes minutes, I even saw it die 5 seconds once) it bombs. Nothing helpful in the event log.

04-11-2003, 12:45 AM	#4
theechap Registered Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5	I have the same vid card, drivers, and dx9. I've never had a problem. Sorry.

04-11-2003, 07:04 AM	#6
loopnut Registered Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 4	Based on "theechap"'s comments above, maybe it's not the video drivers. Perhaps the video board itself? That would suck! But if that were the case I would think it would bomb on other 3D screensavers (which it doesn't), or would have crashed and burned when running 3DMark2003 (which it didn't). Both errors are memory-related, right? Could it be a bum DIMM? FYI, I've got a single MULTIWAVE 512MB PC2100 266MHZ NON-ECC CAS2.5 DDR DIMM sitting in a Shuttle AV49N Motherboard with the rest of the hardware mentioned earlier, and that's it (audio & LAN are on the M/B). BIOS is current, I flashed it about 2 weeks ago when I first started trying to figure this problem out. One last thought for "theechap": How do you have the screensaver configured? (i.e., what resolution, color depth, fish, etc) Which version of Aquarium do you have?

04-11-2003, 11:01 AM	#7
loopnut Registered Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 4	one other note: Operating system=WinXP Pro SP1

04-11-2003, 07:43 PM	#8
theechap Registered Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5	i run it at 1024x768x16. i have lionfish always come on and everything else set to random. auto lights, fps limit at 58. i run winxp home sp1. hope that might help.