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Ati2mtag causing crash - ATI vid card (by 11 users)

posted by Katanjy on Sep 21, 2007


I have an ATI radeon 9800xt AGP 256 video card *the listed is the closest one i could find* . Ever since i upgraded with Catalyst, the video card causes my PC to crash when I play games. In the event log, i get spammed with ati2mtag errors which seems to coincide with the crashing. I have since reinstalled my driver, deleted and reinstalled World of Warcraft, and even reformatted my Pc to fix the problem. Nothing so far as worked. The crashes cause my pc to lock up and the more I play, the more frequent I crash. All of my searching indicates it's my video card causing the crashes. Is there anything I can do to fix it short of buying a new Nvidia card? Please help =/

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10 Other Users Have The Same Problem

Comment by Guest, posted on Jul 18, 2008

same problem: shut down at any times, no further steps taken...

Comment by tylmoore, posted on Jun 26, 2008

Same exact problem. ATI Radeon 9800 128 i believe

Comment by Guest, posted on Jun 19, 2008

My computer suddenly reboots when viewing U-Tube videos or when editing jpegs or just about anything else. There is no definite pattern. I have an ATI Radeon X700 graphics card. I'm ready to get rid of this card as I've tried re-installing drivers. The events folder always shows error ati2mtag at the exact time of the reboot. This problem has only been apparent in the last couple of months. There was no problem when I originally installed the ATI card years ago. (I can't recall just when I got the card.)

Comment by Guest, posted on Jun 09, 2008

computer shuts down saying
CRT invalid display type
source ati2mtag
no start up errors when booting again
runs web and editing photo
only when playing etc wow, cod etc.
my graphic card is a ATI RADEON X850 256mb
any solutions?

Comment by Guest, posted on May 17, 2008

My pc crashes constantly I had to remove the card altogether

Best Solution
posted on Dec 25, 2007
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EnzoMatrix


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The ATI Web site says; they are aware of this problem, since (in their opinion) it does not represent a problem they have no 'Fix', if you don't want the CRT error is Event Viewer roll back to
Catalyst 7.6 and that version does not have the problem.
Personal opinion; they have known for the past FIVE months and done nothing.... is it a coincidence that is about the same time AMD took over ATI?
So, bottom line, roll back to ATI Catalyst 7.6 and loose all the improvments since to get rid of a bug that they really do not care about. "Merry Christmas" from ATI.
lol
EnzoMatrix

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Solution #2
posted on Dec 30, 2007
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Guest

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i have tried the uid download and another site i tried mentioned that a fully up to date .net framework could be another problem. Like crumb82 im trying to run CoD4 and its just not stable, sometimes i can play a level or two and other times it will crash before it loads properly.
Its defo around this issue of the drivers i think, i've tried using an older version of Catalyst Control Centre with a newer display driver and that doesnt seem to have helped.
If i update past version 7.6 of the catalyst drivers none of my games including world of warcraft will work, 3d acceleration will just not initiate when any game attempts to load.
However, using older drivers i can play virtually any game including wow and im getting a solid 40 - 60 fps on wow during raids with graphics at moderate settings.

i Just dont understand why this is happening, other avenues i need to explore is to try some omega drivers and try the uid update now i've fully updated the .netframework but im not holding out much hope, seems to me i just need to replace this absolute runt of a card which is a pain in the ass as i only got this one as money was and still is tight for me :S

one odd thing is that it will run, just wont run stable which is what is really baffling me.

System specs :-

AMD 3000XP "Barton"
2 gig of ram
RADEON 9550 AGP 256MB (AAAAARGHHH!!!)
Windows xp home

blah blah more specs

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Solution #3
posted on Oct 30, 2007
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Guest

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go to micrisoft update and into the hardware updates and get the uid download after a year of crashing my pc and replacing ever thing but mobo that fixed it

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Solution #4
posted on Feb 07, 2008
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Guest

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Your Awesome Thanks for the tip

Give this a shot - solves the problem for sure:
Right click-mouse over My Computer
Properties
Hardware(Tab)
Device Manager(button)
Click [+] next to System devices
right-mouse on CPU to AGP Controller (or whatever your controller is called, mine was SiS AGP)
Update Driver(button)
Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
Next(button)
Select Don't search. I will choose the driver to install.
Next(button)
Select PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
Next(button)
Finish(button)
Reboot.

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Solution #5
posted on Jan 13, 2008
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elkabong


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Give this a shot - solves the problem for sure:
Right click-mouse over My Computer
Properties
Hardware(Tab)
Device Manager(button)
Click [+] next to System devices
right-mouse on CPU to AGP Controller (or whatever your controller is called, mine was SiS AGP)
Update Driver(button)
Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
Next(button)
Select Don't search. I will choose the driver to install.
Next(button)
Select PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
Next(button)
Finish(button)
Reboot.

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Solution #6
posted on Nov 16, 2007
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Crumb82


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I have the same card and the same problem, but with call of duty 4. you could try flashing the gpu bios , the latest i could find is version 008.015.058.00. this didnt help me but this time but has helped me before with other games. i am now going to try going back to catalyst 7.9 and see if it helps. oh, i am using omega drivers based on catalyst 7.10 and also tried regular old ati drivers, i will let you know how i go!

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Solution #7
posted on Jun 20, 2008
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Rhyle


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Ugh. This was painful. My system seems to be stable and working now.

First I upgraded to the latest Catalyst software 8.6 from ATI.com (part of AMD these days)

The key appears to be an updated motherboard AGP chipset driver that I installed from my manufacturer's website (MSICOMPUTER in my case). Windows update didn't catch it.

The particular game that was causing me problems (Spore) also need a minor adjustment to the firewall to allow it to connect to the internet.

Good luck.
MSI K8T Neo-V motherboard/AMD 3700+/2GB RAM
ATI All-in-Wonder x800 AGP

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Solution #8
posted on Apr 02, 2008
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Guest

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hey

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Solution #9
posted on Mar 05, 2008
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MaVchew


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I'm having the same problem as "ati2mtag : CRT invalid display type" .
and also roll back to CAT 7.6.
changed CPU to AGP Controller to PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
modified the Monitor type to VGA 1024 x 768.
and also use the MOD radeon OMEGA drivers but all failed to works on it.
i'm still looking forward the best solution. Seriously, i'm regret to buy this ATI's card.

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Solution #10
posted on Jul 11, 2008
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sag5


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Hallo, das Problem ist der Chipset vom Motherboard.Habe andere Treiber und Hilfsprogramme probiert - ohne Erfolg. Dann habe ich nur MSI PM8M3-V mit Via Chipset ausgebaut und gegen ASUS P4P800E-Deluxe mit Intel-Chipset getauscht - Fehler behoben.

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Solution #11
posted on Jun 26, 2008
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eldar756


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I had the same problems, with the ati2mtag stucked into a loop, and i finally changed my power supply, havent got any more freezes or artefacts since this.

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Solution #12
posted on Jun 22, 2008
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Guest

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I had this problem with SPORE. Whenever I started spore it would bomb out after the initial splash screen. And spit this error to my logs.

I changed my AGP aperture from 256 to 128 in my bios and it let me play. Now it's doing it again. Why? I have no idea.

Radeon x800XT 256 AGP

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Solution #13
posted on Jun 06, 2008
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Scandal_UK


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I also started getting this problem after updating the driver. Mine's a Radeon x800gto agp - as it's not pci-express I won't be trying the "agp to pci" change.

Indeed I had other problems before and rolled back, but hoped the recent update would be OK...

Maybe only the newer cards are considered in the updates these days. AMD certainly seems to have little interest in older ATI cards.

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Solution #14
posted on May 08, 2008
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ianbase


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Here another frustrated player. Gonna smash that raedon A9600 card to the wall. grrrrrr

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Solution #15
posted on Apr 02, 2008
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Guest

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I'm having the same problem with my ati card. but when I change CPU to AGP Controlller to PCI standard my computer stopped freezing but my fps was lowered with around 40... anyone know why? My ati card is Radeon x800 GTO.

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10 Other Users Have The Same Problem - Continued

Comment by xlang, posted on Apr 24, 2008

Yeah, I got the same exact problem, but with a ati x700 pro.

Comment by Guest, posted on Apr 21, 2008

ati2mtag

Comment by E_f_o, posted on Apr 11, 2008

 I have the same problem with video card.The PC time to time freesing and I have to restart it. Event viewer shown  error:
  ati2mtag / CRT invalid display type
The PC have:
Motherboard    ASRock K7VT4A+
CPU               AMD Sempron, 1500 MHz
Video             ATI Radeon 9550 / 256MB/ (RV350)
Ram              512

How can I avoid restarting the PC every time ?

Comment by Guest, posted on Dec 30, 2007

Newest version 7.12 ati drivers fixed all the problems i had! (ATI 9600)

Comment by Guest, posted on Dec 29, 2007

same problems with ati radeon 9600 pro, systems hangs, ati2mtag: crt invalid display type and I use newest ccc. I'm going back to an older version.

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