Radeon 9200 256MB AGP - please help

arkiebrian

arkiebrian

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I have tried everything I could think of to install this video card. When I have it in the AGP slot and reboot, Windows XP Pro goes to the login screen. When I log in, there is a click and the screen goes black.

Any ideas? I REALLY want to get this installed so I can play DOOM 3!
 
Lorand

Lorand

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If you had another video card before the Radeon 9200, you must first uninstall the previous video drivers.
 
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72montecarlo

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If you REALLY wanna play Doom 3 you REALLY need to get a faster card. Just because it has a crapload of onboard memory means nothing. its only there on cheaper cards because its cheap to add more memory. If you want to play Doom 3 a 9600XT would cut it decently or a nvidia gfx 5900.
 
Lorand

Lorand

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What monitor do you have? The Radeons have some sort of incompatibility with Flatron monitors.
 
Praetor

Praetor

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If you REALLY wanna play Doom 3 you REALLY need to get a faster card
Click to expand...
Believe it or not my roomate managed to play on a XP2000, 256MB and .... GF2MX ... blew my mind (and it wasnt horribly choppy either)
 
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72montecarlo

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must have been an engineering fluke ;)

...maybe im just to picky with games. if a game jumps at all it annoys the hell out of me so i notice even the slightest jitteryness or frame jumps, plus i cant stand running games at lower resolutions then the highest my monitor supports. lol :D
 
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arkiebrian

arkiebrian

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Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
512MB 2700 DDR
ATI Radeon 7500 64 MB AGP (currently)
330w Power Supply
Creative SoundBlaster 5.1 Surround Sound
60 GB Maxtor 7200 HD
20 GB Seagate 7200 HD
 
tristan

tristan

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If you have reinstalled new drivers be sure you have deleted the old ones BEFORE you install the new ones. If you have access to another PSU (one of greater power and quality) I would attempt to see if the PSU was the problem. With 2 harddrives and that new videocard it may just be too much for that psu to handle.
 
arkiebrian

arkiebrian

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OK - here's what I did and it is working now! I uninstalled everything named ATI, drivers, Hydravision, etc...only to have the same problem. So I went into BIOS and selected the Video Card memory size to be 256MB where it was 64MB. I also had the OS handle PnP devices instead of BIOS. Anyway...it WORKS now!

Thanks for the help.
 
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