Radeon 9000 PRO

[Doxy]

Okay, here's the problem. The card seems to work fine now, however the card's utilitie program is not opperational. You know, the area where you have settings for D3D and openGL. When I first installed the card it was all there, but when I then tried to open it's properties tab it crashed. I uninstalled everything and attempted to install it again, however, this time it crashed at the start of the Radeon software suite installation. I was able to somehow install the driver off the CD but nothing else. Moreover, if I try to take a look at the driver's properties via Windows "Device Manager" the system crashes too. I have tried to update the driveras as well,but it will crash. Additionally, I do not find any problems with the DirectX 8.1 And, I have updated the board's AGP and CMedia sound drivers as well.
I can live with this, but it is disappointing not to have it running as it should. Also, I should add, that I bought this card "retail" from Googlegear and I was suprized that the box did not come with the typical shrink wrapping plastic around it. I wonder if it had been returned and then they passed it on to me. I don't know. What are your thoughts on all this.

P4 2.0a Ghz
Win 98 se
512mb DDR PC2700 CL2
Asus p4s533 board
WD 80g 7200 HDD

[Tuf]

I would contact ATI first and Googlegear second. That is not acceptable performance by any means. It does sound like you have a conflict somewhere though. I haven't used a 9000 but I was under the impression that Direct 9 was supported and prefered for any of the 9X00 ATI cards.

Did you remove your old drivers before installing the new ones? A lot of times that can wreak havoc on your sytem.

[Alfie]

In Win98 try this approach to installing the drivers.
First uninstall all drivers for video,do this in safemode,also check in device manager and remove all devices for video(under display devices.
Have downloaded the latest drivers for your card,if this is a powered by ATI(Sapphire or powercolor)check their sites for drivers.
Go to display properties and under video display,choose show all devices and choose standard vga,windows will tell you this is the wrong driver,but proceed.
Restart the computer,the image will appear similar to safemode,that's okay,now install the new drivers.
See if that works.
Also in bios make sure all shadowing is set to disabled,especially video shadowing.

[edge345]

Radeon 9000 PRO in win98 does not work very well, works great in a win xp set-up. microsoft will not be supporting any new video card driver for win 98 and below. ati says to use the win-me drivers and hope it works for your win-98 setup....

I have 2 Radeon 9000 PRO (128meg) card in two of my computers and have no problems but both systems are running win-xp. i tryed a dual boot with win98 and win-xp and the drivers loaded correctly in the win-xp but nothing but trouble with the win-98 setup....