ATI says they want $2.45 per minute to answer questions. I'll pay it
but wanted to ask other W8000 users first.

--
Will
westes AT earthbroadcast.com


"HH" wrote in message
. ..
What does ATI say???? The OEM is always the best source on non-Compaq
hardware in a Compaq.

HH

"CHANGE USERNAME TO westes" wrote in message
...
I have a Compaq Professional Workstation W8000 with dual 2.4 GHz
processors
and 2 GB of physical memory. I have been using the ATI RADEON 9500 in
that
system very successfully. I recently tried to upgrade to the RADEON
9700,
but on power on I get blinking characters on the screen, a kind of
mosaic
color pattern that blinks on and off. No part of the BIOS boot up
sequence ever appears, although it is obvious that the computer is in
fact
booting up successfully in the background. I can ping the host from
another computer after it finishes booting.

At first I thought I had a defective RADEON 9700 card. I returned it
to
ATI, and they returned a new one, but included a note saying nothing was
wrong with the first one. I then put the new 9700 into the W8000 and
I
get the same result: blinking mosaic on power on, that never goes away.
Nothing on the monitor is readable from BIOS or the Windows 2000 boot
up.
As soon as I go back to the 9500, the BIOS messages are readable and
Windows
2000 boots fine.

What are possible causes of this problem? It looks like the Compaq
W8000
may have some motherboard or BIOS level incompatibility with the RADEON
9700. Has any other W8000 user experienced this? Is there a
workaround?

--
Will
westes AT earthbroadcast.com