DirectX?

[what]

My computer restarts for some reason whenever I try to play games or when I do the directdraw test in dxdiag. Additionally, there are apparently no input devices or direct3d or agp.

I tried downloading directx from the microsoft site, but it just says that the installation is complete after a few seconds without actually installing or anything. After that, I tried installing the redist version but the problem persists.

Any ideas?

 

[Deathstar1]

What video card do you have?

 

[what]

I have a radeon9200se, drivers installed and everything, except for the directx components, that is.

 

[Deathstar1]

What driver are you running?? Catalyst 6.4?? they're known to be buggy. If you are try the 6.3's or the 6.5's
Are you running XP?
What version of DX are you trying to install?

 

[Half Evil]

DX 9.0c is the newest to date.

 

[Ronco Rox]

the newest Direct X that i know of is Direct X 9.0c, i think it is

 

[Deathstar1]

well there's your problem the card is DX 8.1 capable according to the ATi site not DX9.0 capable, provided he is trying to install DX9.0c that is.

ATi Site

Full support for DirectX ® 8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware

LINK

 

[Ronco Rox]

wow ArrizX, could we not post the same thing at the same time lol?

 

[X1337]

omg lol, dude check your Dx again.. if its 9c than when You try to install it will just skip the install and say its done

 

[what]

Hey I got it to work!
It turns out there was a problem with the drivers.
Thanks everyone for your help.