I started having problems with my Win XP freezing and even blue screens
indicating that the video driver had caused an infinite loop. I upgraded the
drivers (latest ones dated Dec 05), but problems continued. Rolled the
drivers back to some old ones and still the same problem. The video board is
a Gigabyte GV-RX60X128V based on the ATI Radeon X600 XT chipset.

By installing a completely clean Win XP Pro as an alternate boot, I got the
same problems. Eliminated RAM as a problem by doing swaps and still had
failures. By switching to the on-motherboard video the problems went away.
It appears that I have identified the video board as being defective and
have requested an RMA from Gigabyte.

Here is my question to the list. How does the video processor cause the
system crash of the OS? To me it seems a very poorly designed OS if a video
processor can cause the OS to lose control. Of course, Microsoft gave up
much of NT stability when they incorporated the video into the OS with the
release of NT 4.0 - I still don't see how the hardware causes the crash, but
it does.

Thank you, and happy new year.

Peter
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