I was told this by an ati technician based on my problem with my computer

"Based on our experience, the error "The drivers for the display adapter got stuck in an INFINITE LOOP" is a result of a system communication mishap. On some systems, the error "Unable to complete a drawing operation", or an ATI VPU recover error may also occur. This error does not occur on all system configurations.

This issue can occur using any motherboard or graphics chipset along with the Windows XP Operating system. It appears that in most cases this problem is due to a BIOS setting, specifically options affecting the way the RAM, CPU and graphics card communicate with XP and DirectX. Improper timing settings can result in system lock ups or random system reboots.   The following suggestions may help to correct this issue:

Verify that the system has updated software

Adjust basic settings within the system BIOS 

 Adjust advanced settings with the system BIOS

Test with different hardware configurations "

I have updated all drivers and the bios is up to date. The problem was with a game im playing (FEAR) btw

My question is,can I do any of the following on my Dell 4600 Dimension desktop:

Video BIOS Shadow - DISABLED

Init Primary Display - AGP (Toggle this setting if your video card is PCI)

 AGP MASTER 1W/S READ/WRITE - ENABLED/DISABLED (Toggle this option)

AGP Aperture size - 128 MB

AGP Driving Control - AUTO

Disable AGP 8x/4x mode in the BIOS.

Disable AGP Fast Writes in the BIOS.

AGP Driving Control - AUTO

AGP Performance Control - ENABLED/DISABLED (Toggle this option)

Assign IRQ for VGA - ENABLED

System Bios Cacheable - DISABLED

Video BIOS Cacheable - DISABLED

VIDEO RAM Cacheable - DISABLED

Read Around Write - ENABLED/DISABLED (toggle this setting)

PnP OS installed - YES

Advanced options:

Load optimized defaults in your BIOS

Set your memory settings to default values (I.e.. DRAM Timing = SPD)

Lower the memory frequency to 133/166mhz (effectively DDR266/333mhz)

 If available increase AGP Voltage to 1.6 - 1.8 in the BIOS

 SDRAM Cycle length - 2.5

Bank Interleave - ENABLE/DISABLE (toggle this setting - It will only make a difference if you have more than one memory module.)

 DRAM Burst length - 4

I have a Dell Dimension 4600(Pentium 4 cpu 3.20 GHZ),2.00GB ram Windows xp sp2, ATI Radeon 9800XT,

and Direct X 9.0c.

Please help,as Ive never really tinkered much with the bios. I hit F2 and didnt see anything like this. Do I need to access these options through another interface? Thank you in advance!!!

DS