radeon 9550 nightmare

[mitchy24]

What was a ten minute favour , has turned into a 12 hour nightmare, the thing is the card seems to work ok until i install the drivers , then it keeps crashing the pc, or it says its out of range or the the screen just stays black.ive tried 2 different versions of th ati drivers making sure i fully installed the other drivers, to rule things out ive done 3 clean installs and trying installing the drivers straight away but still it keeps screwing up. the m/b im insstalling the card on has onboard graphics but you cant disable them.Only when the monitor is plugged in to th o/b graphics slot, is when the option to see how much shared memory to use is available in the bios. Do you think its worth trying the omega drivers(if i can find them) or if any of you guys can help it would be much appreciated...... thankyou for even reading this

 

[semi-pro waster]

Is there anything like maybe a jumper to disable the onboard graphics or is it meant to auto-sense if a secondary graphics card is present? By all means try different drivers but it sounds like it is a more fundamental problem than that, have you got another graphics card you could try in its place to see if maybe the AGP slot is damaged?

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[ACESHIGH]

Have you gone into the bios to either disable the onboard graphics or set the AGP slot as primary graphics device? Worth a try if you havent.

Do you have the drivers for the onboard graphics stil linstalled?
Use driver cleaner to remove them.

http://www.drivercleaner.net/professional.php

Omega drivers ...
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati.php

 

[mitchy24]

cheers guys the onboard graphics arnt installed, ive tried a different card so i know the agp s is working and ive selected agp as primary adaptor, ill try these omega drivers to see if they work .... thanks for the link