rad 9800 Probs!!

[Surrey_Man]

Hi all ive got a rad 9800 256mb agp 8

any ways prob is when i install the drivers from the ati site the card keeps crashing

If i leave the card with the standed windows drivers its fine

Any one got any ideas???


Cheers
all

 

[furnace]

I'm not sure on this, but you might need to use an older version of the drivers - they could have discontinued support for that card..?

Like I say, it's a guess

 

[LeeMc]

Have you installed the agp drivers for your mobo ?

 

[Surrey_Man]

I'm not sure on this, but you might need to use an older version of the drivers - they could have discontinued support for that card..?

Like I say, it's a guess

do u have a link??

 

[Surrey_Man]

Have you installed the agp drivers for your mobo ?

Arh thats a good question i dont think i did as Xp does it for me but ill do it now (if i can find the moto disk)

 

[Surrey_Man]

still get the same probs and yes now installed the agp drivers

any one got a link for older drivers??

 

[Behemoth]

Try the omega drivers, see if that helps, I had a similar problem when I was isntalling my X1800 XT.

 

[Ak!ta]

any one got a link for older drivers??

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/radeonx-xp.html

 

[Surrey_Man]

thanks all will try that

 

[Surrey_Man]

still got probs the vpu keeps crashing

 

[FoxEye]

I had problems with my old ATI AGP card (a 9600xt). I had to lower the AGP Smart Gart feature from 8x (default setting) to 4x.

After that, no crashes. That was a known problem with the 9600xt cards, and might not be what you are experiencing, but worth a try

The setting is in ATI's control panel, or Display Properties.

 

[YorkshirePadd26]

still got probs the vpu keeps crashing

I had the same problem with an ATi 9700pro that I had.

I took the stock cooler of and replaced it with an artic cooler something or other and must have damaged something as the card card worked fine under windows with windows standard drivers. But as soon as you put an ATI driver near it , it crashed and had graphicial corruption in everything.

AFAIK, the windows default driver don't stress the card at all, but as soon as the proper ati drivers go near it that when it all goes pete tong.

Borked card I'd reckon,
Google bios flashes and see if you can get another bios for it ! a bit risky but if its knackered your not going to do any harm.

 

[an4rew]

6.3 or 6.4 always worked fine for me anything later didn't.

 

[p4radox]

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