Huge problem with ATI video card

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I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista Home Premium. Everything went good. Only thing is my graphic card, Nvidia GeForce MX4000 128mb, couldn't run Windows Aero or Windows Movie Maker. Fine, so I went and bought the ATI Radeon X1050 256mb AGP 8x graphic card. I then Uninstalled the GeForce card and installed the ATI card. I turned on the computer and put the disc in and I got a blue screen saying "Input not supported." I have a 15 inch LCD Insignia EDTV. So then I found out that my power supply was only 250 wats and the card needs 400 and more. I went out and bought a 500 watt power supply. I installed it and the same blue screen came on again.

I am totaly stuck.

At the moment, I have the old card in, or else I wouldn't be able to use the computer.

Please please help.
 
Did you actually uninstall the old card's drivers too before taking the card itself out?
 
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hmm first make sure you have the right drivers and if ur still having problems try goin in bios and change grapvhics to agp 8x or try pci and maby c if that works, one time i tried a radeon xpress 200m on a 10 inch and it said inout or output is out of range so u might want to try a differnt screen although i doubt it
 
First off the replacement card is a little old at this time where the latest ATI updates won't work on that model. The Catalyst 7.2 to 7.4 would be options once all traces of the former card's drivers are removed. That may require the driver removal tool provided by NVidia maybe included on the original cd to be performed.

With Vista and a need to go with a newer model the HD 2600Pro would have been a good option for an updated card for an ATI model. That can easily use the latest Catalyst 7.11 update. The blue screens being seen are definitely incorrect if not remaining NVidia drivers causing that to be seen.
 
Thanks man. I'm downloading the 7.2 version and see if it works.

Also, I made a topic about this but no replies yet...My BIOS setting are locked and I can't change them for some reason. Is their a way I can unlock it so I can change the settings? This way I try changing some video card settings.

Thanks...I'll keep you updated.
 
Bios setting found locked can be one of two things there. The first would be a need to update or simply reflash the bios if the programming was corrupted somehow or the battery on the board is going on you. Most people building their own case never assign passwords there but to user accounts when seeing more then one.

On one old build here all kinds of odd things were seen until one day I went to press the power switch and nothing. Out of curiousity I went out and bought a new battery for the board suspecting that to be the likely cause on the 1yr. old build at the time. Sure ebough it fired right up like it never had a problem and ran better!

A corrupted bios or failing eprom however spells headaches fast. Board manufacturers will send out a new chip while asking which version of the bios revision you will want on it. Asus replied on one inquiry for their brand with the $25 price for one older board.
 
ATI Sucks.. I have had so many bad experinces with them. I tried the hd cards, the radeon cards. they never work right. Every since i used nvidia, i been a happy camper and no issues, and if i had one nvidia fixed them over the phone in less then minutes.
 
Ok so I downloaded Catalyst 7.2 and now I'm using a driver removal tool to delete everything my old card has.

Hope this works. Or else...too the computer hospital we go!!
 
You may want to run one of the NVidia driver removal toolsr as well to insure nothing from the previous card is still remaining. As far as the ATI line of card I've run both ATI and NVidia models over the years and found ATI cards quite reliable once the correct drivers are installed.

The catalyst versions change fast for each newer series however. The 9xxx series catalyst versions upto the 5.14 are no longer seen with omegadrivers.net seeing upto the Radeon 9250. A second site guru3d sees the Catalyst 5.11 for 9xxx there however.
 
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