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Dracolich
![]() Join Date: August 28, 2001
Location: Hurricane Valley
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Hey all, I am at my wit's end here, here is my situation.
I have a Voodoo 3 2000 video card that I have been using and the new one is a Radeon 8500 AGP 128DDR card. I went into my Bios Settings and set up everything in it for the AGP card and uninstalled all the Voodoo drivers and there card. Then I shut down pulled out the old, put in the new and restarted, windows recognized the card set up its drivers for it and booted up, then I installed the drivers from the new card's CD and rebooted as asked. Then boof system lock up in normal mode, safe mode is just fine. So then after several failed attempts of trying I uninstalled it and put back in the voodoo. Went to Radeons site and downloaded there most current driver and saved it to a zip disk ![]() Any idea's comment's etc would be wonderful |
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Harper
![]() Join Date: October 2, 2001
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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OK, what motherboard are you using? Certain (mostly socket 7 designs) cant support a newer AGP card. (anything capable of AGP in 4X mode). IF your using a motherboard that old you wont be able to get anything out of the Radeon.
Other than that, try the radeon in another machine, see if its something in yours. And what OS are you using. Win98 is getting obsolete now, wont be all that much longer before drivers for win98 become impossible to get. I woudnt be surprised if there are already issues with this. You might have some luck with reinstalling windows, but thats a last resort.
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Symbol of Cyric
![]() Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Montana, USA
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Sounds like it might be a display problem, what is your motherboard/chipset make and model?
I had very similiar problems when I took out the crappy mfg's 4mb video card and dropped in a voodoo 5 5500 64mb agp. I ended up on the phone with support, and had to change a jumper that was creating conflicts with the increased thru-put. - as i recall (dimly!), I also had to reassign irq #'s ???? in the CMOS. I certainly hope someone who is sure about this responds (they will ![]() ![]() having a via chipset and an AMD processor has proven to be a serious pain, as I have ended up talking to the folks at AZZA who built my board more than a few times in the last couple of years. Start with help for your card, then to your board builders, if you don't have a pre-made box. good luck! btw, does tech support website for your new card mention any probs with the DDR memory and old bus architecture? I had to reconfig my cmos again when i put in the extra 80g HD and the cd-rw, master and slave the drives, and change from DMA to UDMA. *grr* old junk - can't wait to update!
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SMASH IT Elif!!!!! It will make you feel good! [img]smile.gif[/img] Until you realise what you have done [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Dracolich
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![]() The mother board I have is an A7A266 Socket A ALIMaGIK 1 Chipset ASUS with an AMD 1.2 Processor (Thunderbird) It has full AGP support to X4 and loads of other crap that I have no idea how to use but I am learning. I was told that I should download some AGP drivers from the manufacturer but I have no I dea what to look for, but I am learning ![]() |
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Dracolich
![]() Join Date: August 28, 2001
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Still having an issue, anyone else have any ideas ?
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