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The ATI driver is the one causing all the problems. I disabled it and where before I had dotted lines on the Windows 7 splash screen... which obviously signaled that something was not right, now that is no longer happening and I've yet to crash the machine, no matter how many HD videos I look at.
Of course, many of the eye-candy in Win7 is now gone, because it has lower resolution but I have another ATI card (older than the 9600 :)) with many less features and if I can squeeze a good picture and resolution, I might stick with that. I'll just have to open up the AGP Aperture to 256 in the BIOS (does that make sense) because that other card has only 32 RAM, which is very little.
Now, if you know where I can find a good driver for the 9600 because the one that installed with Win7 is simply not working. Look great, buy only until you push it.
The AMD site will not allow me to download another driver for some reason.
Many Thanks!
McQ