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Problem with Gexcube Radeon 9600 & Asus A7N8X
Hi folks,
a friend of mine has an Asus A7N8X motherboard (latest Bios and drivers) with a GexCube GC-R9600-C3 Radeon 9600. He's running Windows 2000 which is totally up to date with Windows Update. His problem is he can't get the Catalyst drivers other than 3.4 to load properly. We have tried installing later revisions of the driver and also the Omega drivers to no avail. Once installed the system denies all knowledge of the graphics card and the hardware screen shows it has a VGA (save) installed instead of the 9600. Obviously there is some incompatibility somewhere in the system. Has anyone else had any experience with a similar setup, if so what can we do to get it to work? (if anything) TIA |
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wrote: Hi folks, a friend of mine has an Asus A7N8X motherboard (latest Bios and drivers) with a GexCube GC-R9600-C3 Radeon 9600. He's running Windows 2000 which is totally up to date with Windows Update. His problem is he can't get the Catalyst drivers other than 3.4 to load properly. We have tried installing later revisions of the driver and also the Omega drivers to no avail. Once installed the system denies all knowledge of the graphics card and the hardware screen shows it has a VGA (save) installed instead of the 9600. Obviously there is some incompatibility somewhere in the system. Has anyone else had any experience with a similar setup, if so what can we do to get it to work? (if anything) TIA Are you uninstalling the old driver and rebooting, before installing the new driver ? That is recommended for any brand of graphics card. http://www.ati.com/support/includes/tips.html A video card driver needs a chipset AGP driver, in order for AGP to work. Without going crazy on the various Nforce2 driver sets, just check the Device Manager, to see if there is something that the ATI driver can use in the way of an AGP device. If that requirement is met, there shouldn't be any complaints from SmartGART, that it cannot load. VGA mode is a sign that the ATI package isn't happy with what it found in the Device Manager. It is reverting to a safe mode of operation until it is fixed. HTH, Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... In article , "second_coming" wrote: Hi folks, a friend of mine has an Asus A7N8X motherboard (latest Bios and drivers) with a GexCube GC-R9600-C3 Radeon 9600. He's running Windows 2000 which is totally up to date with Windows Update. His problem is he can't get the Catalyst drivers other than 3.4 to load properly. We have tried installing later revisions of the driver and also the Omega drivers to no avail. Once installed the system denies all knowledge of the graphics card and the hardware screen shows it has a VGA (save) installed instead of the 9600. Obviously there is some incompatibility somewhere in the system. Has anyone else had any experience with a similar setup, if so what can we do to get it to work? (if anything) TIA Are you uninstalling the old driver and rebooting, before installing the new driver ? That is recommended for any brand of graphics card. http://www.ati.com/support/includes/tips.html A video card driver needs a chipset AGP driver, in order for AGP to work. Without going crazy on the various Nforce2 driver sets, just check the Device Manager, to see if there is something that the ATI driver can use in the way of an AGP device. If that requirement is met, there shouldn't be any complaints from SmartGART, that it cannot load. VGA mode is a sign that the ATI package isn't happy with what it found in the Device Manager. It is reverting to a safe mode of operation until it is fixed. HTH, Paul Hi Paul, yes we've uninstalled everything thoroughly and still no joy. I'll have a look if the SmartGart driver is installed properly thanks |
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