i had this maya binary file, pretty big.. around 30meg
its a polygon fountain model applied with texture lighting and stuff

it crashed everytime i open it in maya 5 (tried patch to 5.01 with same result)

so.... out of the frustration i remove this fireglx2(256meg) and place the old quadrofx1000(128meg) back in

guesss what... the file works perfectly..

ati sucks