After installing new drivers for an old ATI All-In-Wonder, every time the system booted up, atievxx.exe would crash. Annoying, but not tragic, and I lived with it for a while. Cleaning out the old drivers didn’t help, nor did reinstalling the OS. On the chance that it was a hardware problem with the card, I went ahead and replaced it with a newer model, new drivers and everything… and still, that atievxx.exe crash.<\/p>\n
I finally tracked it down to a conflict with UltraVNC’s “video hook” driver. Who knew? Curiously, without its video hook driver, UltraVNC is a bit of a slug, so I replaced it with RealVNC, which I’ve been using on other systems with dual-monitor setups for a while.<\/p>\n
On another system, I installed the operating system from scratch<\/em>, and the next step was to install the drivers… But the installation program locked up the system. After trying permutations of everything (there weren’t many permutations of software to try) I resorted to ATI support — who mostly sent me form letters about where to find the latest drivers and asked if my power supply was adequate. Intriguingly, the drivers worked fine if I let Windows install them with the “found new hardware” wizard, but the ATI installer choked no matter what I did.<\/p>\n The problem? A Lucent winmodem sitting in one of the PCI slots. As far as I know, it works perfectly well, but it’s been disconnected for a long time, and god knows why the ATI installer doesn’t like it (or vice versa) but there it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After installing new drivers for an old ATI All-In-Wonder, every time the system booted up, atievxx.exe would crash. Annoying, but not tragic, and I lived with it for a while. Cleaning out the old drivers didn’t help, nor did reinstalling the OS. On the chance that it was a hardware \u2026 Continue reading