MSI 945 GM4 FI motherboard problem with radeon graphics

Hi i am using a msi 945 gm4-FI motherboard and i have problems getting it to work with my msi ati radeon 5770 graphics card in windows 7.
Everytime i try to insert my 5770 graphics card on my motherboard it got hang on starting windows screen on windows 7. That was when my ami bios is version 7.0
After i update my motherboard ami bios to version 7.4 it got worse as it does not even have display on the lcd monitor screen!
But when i try and use my onboard intel graphics it works perfectly in windows 7. It boot up to windows 7 no problem. The problem only comes in when i use this graphics card. Also it has absolutely no problem at all when i use it with windows XP professional with bios version 7.0 with the 5770.
Right now i am considering whether to downgrade back to version 7.0 and use back windows xp or is there any solution you guys can recommend? I really need to get this graphics card working with windows 7 with my current motherboard. Your help is greatly appreciated thank you. This problem has been bugging me for years.
Below is my system specs
intel core 2 duo 6420 2.13ghz processor
Msi 945 gm4-fi motherboard
msi ati radeon 5770 1gb pm2D1G 1GB GDDR
2x 1gb 667 mhz ram
coolermaster 650 watts PSU
1tb western digital cavier green hdd
160 gb western digital hdd
22 inch lg monitor

Tried friend's nvidia card and it works under windows 7. But i need to get my radeon 5770 card with my mobo working under windows 7. Any suggestions?

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PC=0x0099E54C; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x3AA4C34E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0099EFA0; R1=0x19D63AC0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x0099FF28 0x0099EFA0 0x00997468 0x00988020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00000000
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0x981000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x4b3000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x4c6000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x4fc000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x4e6000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2CD3AC80)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2CDA8000)
PC=0x900078B8; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0xE0FA8000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x90007438; R1=0xBFFEE3D0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 1): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 1:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x00090C38 0x0009402C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2CD3AC80)
PC=0x0099E54C; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x3AA4C34E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0099EFA0; R1=0x19D63AC0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x0099FF28 0x0099EFA0 0x00997468 0x00988020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00000000
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0x981000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x4b3000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x4c6000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x4fc000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x4e6000
Exception state (sv=0x2CDA8000)
PC=0x900078B8; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0xE0FA8000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x90007438; R1=0xBFFEE3D0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - Sp
The distnoted.crash.log refers to the following exception:
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000006
(I can post this whole log if it would be helpful.)
Any thoughts on what might be causing this problem? I will continue to test the effects of changing various aspects of my configuration, but since I can only get the problem to occur once a day (after my computer has been asleep for a while), it might take me a few days or weeks to track the problem down through blind trial-and-error.
Thanks!
Dual 1 GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.5 GB SDRAM, GeForce4 Ti 4600 LCD display, LaCie 1394 external drive

After a little experimentation, I've managed to narrow the problem down a little, but still haven't resolved it. My computer still crashes almost every time I wake it up after a long sleep (multiple hours). Things work fine for a few minutes, but then some aspects of the display start to get mangled (e.g. strange lines appearing, text becoming distorted, etc.), then some applications start crashing and the system hangs. Sometimes I get a kernel panic, but not always - but I always need to reboot to solve the problem.
The errors in the system log files differ from crash to crash, but the one thing that seems to be consistent is that I get a "Graphics chip error". Is this usually a hardware problem, or can it be due to a software problem? Sometimes this graphics chip error is the first error to occur, although sometimes an application will crash a few seconds before the graphics chip error is recorded in the system.log.
In my original post, I suggested that the problem might be due to an AppleScript that mounts an external drive. I have since determined that this is NOT the cause of the problem.
Any thoughts on what might be going on?
Here's the relevant part of the system log file from today's crash:
From /var/log/system.log:
Mar 31 13:52:18 nitrogen kernel: System Sleep
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: System Wake
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: Wake event 0020
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: enableClockSpreading returned with 0
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: AppleNMI unmask NMI
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: Adaptec warning: Resetting SCSI bus.
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: FWOHCI handleSelfIDInt - nodeID not valid (reset bus and retry 1)
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Half Duplex
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen mDNSResponder[159]: mDNSResponder Waking at 19764350
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen mDNSResponder[159]: -1: DNSServiceRegister("Bill's Mostly Celtic Music", "daap.tcp.", "local.", 3689) failed: Client id -1
invalid (-65549)
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen mDNSResponder[159]: -1: DNSServiceRegister("iTunesCtrl5DC89B66EC5DD60B", "dacp.tcp.", "local.", 3689) failed: Client id
-1 invalid (-65549)
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen SymMissedTask - parent[240]: sleeptime recorded: Thu Mar 30 17:58:59 2006
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen SymMissedTask - parent[240]: waketime is: Fri Mar 31 13:52:30 2006
Mar 31 13:52:50 nitrogen crontab[659]: (root) LIST (root)
Mar 31 13:52:50 nitrogen crontab[661]: (root) LIST (sage)
Mar 31 13:57:07 nitrogen kernel: Graphics chip error! Restarted.
Mar 31 13:57:24 nitrogen last message repeated 19 times
Mar 31 13:57:24 nitrogen crashdump: Started writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/WindowServer.crash.log
Mar 31 13:57:24 nitrogen crashdump: Finished writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/WindowServer.crash.log
Mar 31 13:57:25 nitrogen kernel: Graphics chip error! Restarted.
Mar 31 13:57:31 nitrogen last message repeated 42 times
Mar 31 14:00:00 nitrogen CRON[667]: (root) CMD ("/Library/Application Support/Symantec/Scheduler/SymSecondaryLaunch.app/Contents/schedLauncher" 1 "/Applications/Symantec Solutions/LiveUpdate.app/Contents/MacOS/LiveUpdate" " " "oapp" "aevt" "exAG" "-update LUdf -liveupdatequiet YES -liveupdateautoquit YES")
Mar 31 14:00:00 nitrogen /Library/Application Support/Symantec/Scheduler/SymSecondaryLaunch.app/Contents/schedLauncher[667]: launch for id = 1 event = oapp result = 0
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for LiveUpdate[674]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for loginwindow[686]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for SecurityAgent[690]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for IRTool[710]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for loginwindow[836]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for SecurityAgent[839]
Mar 31 14:01:55 nitrogen sudo: sacks : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/private/var/log ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown -r now
Mar 31 14:01:55 nitrogen shutdown: reboot by sacks:
Mar 31 14:01:57 nitrogen syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Mar 31 14:08:44 localhost syslogd: restart
Dual 1 GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.5 GB SDRAM, GeForce4 Ti 4600 LCD display, LaCie 1394 external drive

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