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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 4:57 am
by Igwiz
Hello.
I bought a Radeon 8500 64mb ddr graphics card (this forum has a lot to answer for!:>) but am having problems.
I have a SOYO Dragon Plus motherboard with AthlonXP2000+ and 1024MB DDRRAM.
The problem is, Windows will not recognise the ATI drivers, gets stuck in 16colour 640x480 resolution and then crashes with either a hang or a black screen. I am pretty sure my drivers are up to date and I have followed all instructions.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Edward
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 5:35 am
by Bruce
Which version of Windows?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 5:38 am
by Igwiz
Oops sorry! WIN98SE at the moment...
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 5:44 am
by Bruce
Might also need to know which version of the drivers and where you got them from.
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 6:01 am
by Igwiz
I'm pretty sure the drivers are up to date. But will check tonight when I get home.
It has been suggested to me that it may be a cooling or PSU problem? How on Earth will I be able to tell that?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 8:34 am
by Coldfirex
Have you already tried removing the ati card from Device Manager (that is if its even there)? Either do that and d/l Ati's latest from their site and give it a go. What other hardware do you have?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 8:55 am
by Igwiz
Modem and firewire card are only other devices at present.
Have tried removing and re-installing a couple of times. Is it right that two monitors get detected even if only one is present? That rings alarm bells! Have read something about the maxvcache level which I will also try but that shouldn't effect the lack of resolution levels should it?!?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 9:17 am
by ANApex
I've never had my 8500 detect two monitors when only one is present. Let us know what drivers you are trying to use please.
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 10:03 am
by imposter BILL
http://216.250.251.147/ati.htm
Try the drivers from this page
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 10:37 am
by Igwiz
I used the drivers that came with it and then downloaded the latest off the ATI website...
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 10:47 am
by Bruce
Instead of 'latest', can you give us a URL and version number?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 10:48 am
by ANApex
Were they the "latest" certified or beta drivers?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 10:53 am
by Igwiz
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 11:37 am
by Bruce
Did you upgrade DirectX to 8.1 before installing the video drivers?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 11:47 am
by Igwiz
I think so! What I'm going to do is start all over again with the ideas people have given me and then take it from there! Hope it's not a dodgy card!
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 12:17 pm
by Forge
More likely it's a dodgy OS. Zero problems here with the Radeon1, but I had large numbers of issues similar to what you describe when using 98SE.
Also, not to be a pest, but this IS a brand new copy of Windows, right? Lots of times when I was running 98, old drivers would leave registry entries all over the place, that would totally screw new graphics cards.
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 1:14 pm
by Igwiz
Well, I formatted C: drive and re-installed 98SE - I take it that clears the Registry?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 3:30 pm
by Coldfirex
So you formatted, installed 98SE, installed the cd drivers, installed the latest drivers, and I suppose updates to 98 and it crashes right? On which application does it crash? Have you tried turning down AGP in the bios maybe??
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2002 5:24 am
by Igwiz
Couldn't do much last night as I was out on the beers but will try again tonight!
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2002 5:45 am
by Bruce
A night on the turps and PC re-installing do not mix - I used to work with a guy who had proved that many times.
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 10:22 am
by Igwiz
Not sure exactly which bit of what I did was different but got it to work last night! Thanks guys for all the help.
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 10:39 pm
by EnDlEsS
You may wanna try the newest leaked driver 4.13.9017..
You can find it @
Rage3D ~~!