Guru's of the world...Help please!

cmhalon · **Guru's of the world...Help please! -** 09-17-2008, 18:57 | posts: 1

I have an older system, but I use it pretty much solely to play WoW so it doesn't need a ton of horsepower. Last night I had wow open at the character screen while looking at some things on a website on my other monitor, then it struck. Blue screen of death because of a problem with Atapi.sys. For a while my computer wouldn't post so I waited a bit thinking maybe it had something to do with heat. After a while it did come back up, but the opening screen for my mb looked like it was in 8 bit (almost monochrome) color which it's never done. When I got in windows, I checked it's temp and it's actually running very cool, but the fps in wow are actually below 1fps. I tried to run Jericho for the hell of it last night and it decided to simply reset on me. I hope the card isn't dead, my system is an older agp system and I simply don't have the $$$ right now to upgrade everything for a new pcie system. I thought that maybe if I tried reflashing the bios and basically resetting the card to factory default, that it could perhaps help, but I can't find the bios anywhere for a Powercolor x1950 pro 256mb agp card. I'm out of ideas guys, you all have any?

FULMTL · 09-18-2008, 03:13 | posts: 6,150 | Location: Portland, Oregon

8bit mode? I havent seen that since windows xp. maybe reinstall the graphics drivers?
Dont know if you said it, but try resettting bios instead of reflashing? Try to use your IGP if your mobo has one.
Ive never heard of a vga simply just dying. I put my vga's through a ton of stress, OC'ing and over heating; even throwing them around the floor and they still work.

EAK · 09-18-2008, 21:16 | posts: 463 | Location: Omaha, NE

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Originally Posted by cmhalon

I have an older system, but I use it pretty much solely to play WoW so it doesn't need a ton of horsepower. Last night I had wow open at the character screen while looking at some things on a website on my other monitor, then it struck. Blue screen of death because of a problem with Atapi.sys. For a while my computer wouldn't post so I waited a bit thinking maybe it had something to do with heat. After a while it did come back up, but the opening screen for my mb looked like it was in 8 bit (almost monochrome) color which it's never done. When I got in windows, I checked it's temp and it's actually running very cool, but the fps in wow are actually below 1fps. I tried to run Jericho for the hell of it last night and it decided to simply reset on me. I hope the card isn't dead, my system is an older agp system and I simply don't have the $$$ right now to upgrade everything for a new pcie system. I thought that maybe if I tried reflashing the bios and basically resetting the card to factory default, that it could perhaps help, but I can't find the bios anywhere for a Powercolor x1950 pro 256mb agp card. I'm out of ideas guys, you all have any?

atapi.sys, huh? You are running xp, seems like something happened with your system bus drivers to me. Reload your motherboard chipset drivers. I dont think your graphics card took a dive. I only suggest this because part of windows xp are still under-developed even with SP3. You could try reloading the newest video drivers for your card but i dont believe they are at fault