Yrag, Iplural, anyone else with good advice, I have a problem.
Saturday, May 29, 2004 by kona0197 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
So I finally decided to get rid of my Nvidia Gforce2 card and install my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro card. So I installed it carefully (while touching metal so there was no static discharge) and then I secured it.
I then booted up the PC and the monitor flickered on but the text on screen was messed up. Seems the card was only displaying every other line and some text was garbled.
So I took out the card carefully and inspected every part of the card under close observation. There seems to be NO cracks or broken parts on the card.
So what is wrong with it? Please keep in mind my board only runs at AGP 4x and it is a old board. BIOS date is in the year 2000. My Nvidia card runs fine so I suspect it is the card that is screwing up. But it was pulled from a working system so I am confused.
I will go test it on a friends system to see what happens. Any other advice?
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I then booted up the PC and the monitor flickered on but the text on screen was messed up. Seems the card was only displaying every other line and some text was garbled.
So I took out the card carefully and inspected every part of the card under close observation. There seems to be NO cracks or broken parts on the card.
So what is wrong with it? Please keep in mind my board only runs at AGP 4x and it is a old board. BIOS date is in the year 2000. My Nvidia card runs fine so I suspect it is the card that is screwing up. But it was pulled from a working system so I am confused.
I will go test it on a friends system to see what happens. Any other advice?
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kona0197
Reply #23 Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:02 PM
Well if it will not work in my friends system that might mean it's toast so then I will trash it. We will see.
Reply #23 Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:02 PM
| Why would you trash the card...do as Jafo suggested to see IF it is the monitor |
Well if it will not work in my friends system that might mean it's toast so then I will trash it. We will see.
Shameless Designs
Reply #24 Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:08 PM
Reply #24 Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:08 PM
I don''t want to interfere here, but I have a question and perhaps a suggestion, depending on the answer. Kona, if your ATI 9600 is an AGP card, does your motherboard use a non-Intel based chipset? The reason that I ask is that I just went through this myself, and found out the hard way that I needed to update the AGP Drivers from the MOBO manufacturer BEFORE installing my ATI 9600. Mine reacted in a very similar fashion to what you describe until I reset everything and started over by installing the updated AGP drivers. It cleared everything up for me.
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Ooooo all this tech talk is getting me Hot!
Sugaree
Reply #29 Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:38 PM
Reply #29 Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:38 PM
Do I know how to clear a room or what? 
Carry on fellas
Carry on fellas
kona0197
Reply #30 Sunday, May 30, 2004 12:09 AM
Reply #30 Sunday, May 30, 2004 12:09 AM
I do have the latest VIA drivers installed. But I still do not know why it will not work on power up. I bet it's my monitor. Gonna go test it on another machine here shortly.
IPlural
Reply #34 Sunday, May 30, 2004 5:07 PM
Reply #34 Sunday, May 30, 2004 5:07 PM
whats the refresh rate on that monitor?
also you might want to disable the AGP shared memory setting in bios.
also you might want to disable the AGP shared memory setting in bios.
kona0197
Reply #35 Sunday, May 30, 2004 5:51 PM
Reply #35 Sunday, May 30, 2004 5:51 PM
I've been running my Nvidia card at 85 hz refresh rate with no problems. Not sure what the actual refresh of the monitor really is. I don't have the option to disable shared anything in BIOS.
MGiff
Reply #36 Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:22 PM
Reply #36 Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:22 PM
My husband had the same problem when he installed his ATI Radeon 9600 Pro card. He had to do something with the bios (?) and then there was a switch inside that he had to move to the other setting. I know that's not any help but I thought it may help if you knew it wasn't unusual and probably is not the card.
MGiff
Reply #37 Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:24 PM
Reply #37 Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:24 PM
Jeeze, all these tornado warnings, I can't hang around to see the solution. 
tjesterb
Reply #38 Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:32 PM
Reply #38 Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:32 PM
I installed the same ATI card a few months ago, and I had to boot up in safe mode and uninstall the old drivers and install the new drivers from there before installing the new card. As I recall I also had to install latest BIOS and/or chipset drivers as well.
kona0197
Reply #39 Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:45 PM
I''m having this problem before windows ever starts. I wonder though... be right back.
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Reply #39 Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:45 PM
| I installed the same ATI card a few months ago, and I had to boot up in safe mode and uninstall the old drivers and install the new drivers from there before installing the new card. As I recall I also had to install latest BIOS and/or chipset drivers as well. |
I''m having this problem before windows ever starts. I wonder though... be right back.
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kona0197
Reply #40 Sunday, May 30, 2004 10:26 PM
Reply #40 Sunday, May 30, 2004 10:26 PM
Nope... still the same result as always. Turn on the power and it only shows every other line on the screen and then it all blinks pretty colors with zeros. I'll find out tommorrow if it works. 
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Reply #21 Saturday, May 29, 2004 9:57 PM