Driver problem with ATI 4870 and Vista64

[squall_leonhart69r]

hi,
I have a problem with my computer,I recently replaced my hard drives and installed ATI 4870 512 mb thus need to reinstall Vista, now I get the problem that does not solved.3D applications are immediately turn in to bluescreen or the computer freezes.In Windows, it happens frequently that the mouse pointer become 5 time larger than normal pointer size and then the computer freezes. So I reinstalled Vista and returning to the same problem.

[kiLLer]

hi,
As far as I can tell it's almost always a driver problem.Apart from the graphics driver what else have you changed recently?Make sure that your monitor is set to the primary display? video won't show on anything but primary.

[ApPy10]

you may just need to adjust your screen resolution:

System->Preferences->Screen Resolution.

[Bora Bora]

There are many reasons why you might have a hardware or software driver problem. You might have installed an update that caused your driver to stop working. You might have installed some new hardware and not yet installed the necessary driver for that hardware, or the driver might be incompatible or corrupted.

check this micrsoft guide How to troubleshoot hardware and software driver problems in Windows XP

[Archibald]

follow these steps to remove unused drivers to see if its an unused driver is causng the problem:

1. Press [Windows]+[Break] to bring up the System Properties dialog box.
2. Select the Advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button.
3. Click the New button below the System Variables panel.
4. In the New System Variable dialog box, type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices in the Variable Name text box and 1 in the Variable Value text box.
5. Click OK to return to the System Properties dialog box and then click OK again.
6. Select the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button.
7. In Device Manager, go to View | Show Hidden Devices.
8. Expand the various branches in the device tree and look for the washed out icons, which indicate unused device drivers.
9. To remove an unused device driver, right-click the icon and select Uninstall.