ATI Woe's

[Mac Medic]

Hopefull this will not turn into a bash ATI thread. One of my PC's has an Asus A7V133 mobo with a VIA KT133A Chipset. My problem is no matter what ATI videocard I put in it (with the exception of a 7000) it bluescreens. Why?. I have ATI cards in other PC's at home, and every PC I build at work uses ATI, so what is it about this particular combo thats causing all these problems. I am currently running a GF3TI-500 in it, but fancied a 9000 pro, and it just keeps locking down, had the same issues with a 7500 & 8500Le. Any ideas?. I am using recent 4 in 1 drivers and a relatively new bios, they are both new enough to have worked out any issues with a 7500 ATI card at least.

[cliffboy]

I also have a problem with the Sapphire Radeon 9100 I just bought. When I load the drivers for Windows 98, my system hangs after re-start. And the images are somewhat scattered all over the desktop. I can't do even a CTRL-ALT-DEL. I really need to press the re-start button. Gosh... I can't seem to find a solution from the FAQs at ATI's site or even Sapphire's.

I'm runnin' Athlon XP 2400+ on an Epox 8K9AI with VIA KT400 chipsets. Since the machine I'm workin' on is dual-boot with WinXP Pro, I was able to install the WinXP drivers. Though it won't freeze like in Win98, but still images somewhat get pasted when I move from one window to another.

This is really givin' me a headache. I have adjusted the AGP Aperture Size back to 64M from 128M, and still the problem persists. I've got DirectX 9 in this system. It came provided with the Radeon's driver CD.

Any help please?

[morriswindgate]

Download the latest drivers, and if you are running XP unplug the network cable to prevent it from going to the internet for the drivers.

[cliffboy]

Thanks, Morris. I'll do that.

[cliffboy]

Now, here is what I did. I removed the Radeon 9100 and put in place my older Radeon 7200 and installed it's own drivers [of course, I uninstalled the drivers for the 9100 before loaded the ones for the 7200]. Now, still here is the problem... whenever I drag a window [i.e. volume control], I get the same "blotted" image problems, kinda like it's pasted as what I have posted above.