Hp Media Center M7560n + Ati Video Card = Crash, Looking for some diagnosic help.

[vtnwesley]

Hi,

I recent purchased an HP Media Center

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Speci...cation.do#tabs

When I first got it, I did extensive hardware testing to make sure it all worked. It all seemed to check out. I reinstalled the Windows XP Media Center 2005 OEM OS (as many know, these things usually come loaded with adware and spyware, enough to make even an Athlon 64 x2 or Core 2 Duo slow to a crawl). After all was done and installed and working, I installed a Radeon x700 Pro which is very tested and working. The video card driver crashes all over itself. It usually can't produce a login screen. I blindly type in my password, and it logs in, then the VPU recovery tool featured as a part of the ATI control center tells me it crashed, and had to reinitialize. It jumps between doing that and a blue screen.

It seems to be running fine on integrated video, and the video card does in fact work. I've been using it for a long time now on another system. All of my drivers are up to date. I've tried several different ATI drivers.

My working theories are:

1. AMD integrated northbridge needing drivers that are not available to me
2. The nForce (410/430, forget which) simply not liking ATI video cards
3. The ATI driver not being media center compatible.

If anyone knows anything about this, let me know whats up. This is the first AMD system I've worked with post-64, so maybe I am missing something obvious.

Thanks in advance.