ATI Catalyst Control Center can't launch and crashed... HELP!!

[einhander]

Hi

I just bought a new Dell Studio XPS 435T which comes with Vista Home Premium. There wasn't any problems with the ATI Catalyst Control Center launching and tweaking until I have updated the drivers via Windows Update. Worse still, the update crashed my Vista. There wasn't any blue screens but when Vista started up, nothing is displayed - pure black screen until I tried to launch Task Manager. It returned some error which said something like "security login error". Nevermind that coz I went for a clean install of Vista with the DVD which came with the PC.

Subsequent re-installs and video graphics driver update did not crash Vista anymore but it crashed the Catalyst Control Center (dammit!! ). This is the problem signature:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MOM.exe
Application Version: 2.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: e7e5045d
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a7a6
Exception Code: c000007b
Exception Offset: 00009cac
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: CLI.exe
Application Version: 2.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: e7e5045d
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a7a6
Exception Code: c000007b
Exception Offset: 00009cac
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3

Every time I tried to re-initialize the Catalyst Control Center, I get an error like this: "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b)". Anyway to fix this error? I wouldn't want to keep my graphics driver outdated.


There is an issue which I believe has got to do with the re-installing of Vista as some of my games worked before the re-install has been carried out. For example, Devil May Cry 4 which worked then but it crashed every time I tried to launch the game after the re-install. Any ideas on how to fix this?