Sapphire 9800 Non-Pro 128Mb - Arrives Tomorrow

Well here goes nothing. A friend upgraded his PC from a GF4 ti-4200 the
other week and after formatting his system because it fell over from putting
a 9600 Radeon in, I must say that I am not looking forward to tomorrow. For
nearly 16 months I have had Win 2k installed at just under 1.2Gb System
install with loads of apps and games on other partitions.

I obviously do not see why I should have to re-install a system because of a
graphics card so I have taken a few precautions:

Downloaded Det Destroyer
Turned off fast Writes in the Bios
Gonna change the Graphics card to standard VGA before restart.
Gonna use the standard drivers that arrive on the CD first.

Will let you know what happens: Fingers crossed.

Good luck. It's a great card. If you scrub out all those nasty Nvidia files
and install the latest Catalysts and matching control panel from
www.ati.com, you should come back with only happy tales to tell ;)

"Dam6" wrote in message
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Well here goes nothing. A friend upgraded his PC from a GF4 ti-4200 the
other week and after formatting his system because it fell over from
putting
a 9600 Radeon in, I must say that I am not looking forward to tomorrow.
For
nearly 16 months I have had Win 2k installed at just under 1.2Gb System
install with loads of apps and games on other partitions.

I obviously do not see why I should have to re-install a system because of
a
graphics card so I have taken a few precautions:

Downloaded Det Destroyer
Turned off fast Writes in the Bios
Gonna change the Graphics card to standard VGA before restart.
Gonna use the standard drivers that arrive on the CD first.

Will let you know what happens: Fingers crossed.

Dam6 wrote:
Well here goes nothing. A friend upgraded his PC from a GF4 ti-4200 the
other week and after formatting his system because it fell over from
putting a 9600 Radeon in, I must say that I am not looking forward to
tomorrow. For nearly 16 months I have had Win 2k installed at just under
1.2Gb System install with loads of apps and games on other partitions.

I obviously do not see why I should have to re-install a system because
of a graphics card so I have taken a few precautions:

You don;t need to reformat to install a new peice of hardware, unless it's
chipset, and even then you can often get away with it if you approach it in
the right way.

Downloaded Det Destroyer
Turned off fast Writes in the Bios
Gonna change the Graphics card to standard VGA before restart.
Gonna use the standard drivers that arrive on the CD first.

Will let you know what happens: Fingers crossed.

My process would be:

Change to standard VGA, reboot.
Det Destroy
Turn off
Replace Card
Install Cat3.7 straight off.
Install DX9b

Ben
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I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String...

You could always run a repair reinstallation of Windows (it gets rid of
everything in the registry concerning devices in the system, but leaves all
of your files/settings/etc. intact).

A little OT, but where did you get the 9800np and what brand is it? I have
seen its sources dry up and increase in price even though they don't have
them in stock (Newegg and Allstarshop). I have one and ordered it just in
time it seems from NE. It is a Sapphire Atlantis and I have it O/C'ed to
350/310 with no problems. Great card if you can find one. I also was worried
about installation and disabled (running XP Pro) my Geforce in device
manager, turned off "restore", wiped out any Nvidia references I could find,
SD, then installed the card, rebooted, then installed drivers from the
supplied CD. They were Cat 3.4 and run fine. Maybe I was lucky, but it
wasn't the nightmare I expected. Of course, I'm still running the Cat
3.4--does that say "chicken' to anyone--I think so.

"Dam6" wrote in message
...
Well here goes nothing. A friend upgraded his PC from a GF4 ti-4200 the
other week and after formatting his system because it fell over from
putting
a 9600 Radeon in, I must say that I am not looking forward to tomorrow.
For
nearly 16 months I have had Win 2k installed at just under 1.2Gb System
install with loads of apps and games on other partitions.

I obviously do not see why I should have to re-install a system because of
a
graphics card so I have taken a few precautions:

Downloaded Det Destroyer
Turned off fast Writes in the Bios
Gonna change the Graphics card to standard VGA before restart.
Gonna use the standard drivers that arrive on the CD first.

Will let you know what happens: Fingers crossed.

Sorry, I see it is a Sapphire--mea culpa

"Dam6" wrote in message
...
Well here goes nothing. A friend upgraded his PC from a GF4 ti-4200 the
other week and after formatting his system because it fell over from
putting
a 9600 Radeon in, I must say that I am not looking forward to tomorrow.
For
nearly 16 months I have had Win 2k installed at just under 1.2Gb System
install with loads of apps and games on other partitions.

I obviously do not see why I should have to re-install a system because of
a
graphics card so I have taken a few precautions:

Downloaded Det Destroyer
Turned off fast Writes in the Bios
Gonna change the Graphics card to standard VGA before restart.
Gonna use the standard drivers that arrive on the CD first.

Will let you know what happens: Fingers crossed.

"TheHasselhoff" wrote
You could always run a repair reinstallation of Windows (it gets rid of
everything in the registry concerning devices in the system, but leaves
all
of your files/settings/etc. intact).


Hi.
forgive me for asking, but how do you do a repair install of WinXP Pro?. I
did have one or two attempts but I got a bit lost. I think I ended up in
the recovery console or something? (A black DOS like screen requiring
command prompts).

If this question is tricky to answer then no sweat, but if its a simple
process then any chance you could enlighten me

Thanks,

--
Wayne ][

Boot from the CD. Go as to install the OS from scratch (i.e. hit 'enter' to
begin setup). XP will, then, say 'detected another instance...' etc... It
will prompt you to 'repair' it, or wipe it. Hit the R button.

Follow prompts

-
Wayne Youngman stood up at show-n-tell, in
, and said:

"TheHasselhoff" wrote
You could always run a repair reinstallation of Windows (it gets rid
of everything in the registry concerning devices in the system, but
leaves all of your files/settings/etc. intact).


Hi.
forgive me for asking, but how do you do a repair install of WinXP
Pro?. I did have one or two attempts but I got a bit lost. I think
I ended up in the recovery console or something? (A black DOS like
screen requiring command prompts).

If this question is tricky to answer then no sweat, but if its a
simple process then any chance you could enlighten me

Thanks,

--
Strontium

"It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every
now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit

"Wayne Youngman" wrote in message
...

"TheHasselhoff" wrote
You could always run a repair reinstallation of Windows (it gets rid of
everything in the registry concerning devices in the system, but leaves
all
of your files/settings/etc. intact).


Hi.
forgive me for asking, but how do you do a repair install of WinXP Pro?.
I
did have one or two attempts but I got a bit lost. I think I ended up in
the recovery console or something? (A black DOS like screen requiring
command prompts).

If this question is tricky to answer then no sweat, but if its a simple
process then any chance you could enlighten me

Thanks,

--
Wayne ][



Hi,

Just about to buy a 256Mb Gigabyte ATI Radeon 9800 Pro DVI/TV DDR Retail.
just curious what is Det Destroyer?

cheers


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Hello,

I read reviews all over the shop after looking at www.overclockers.co.uk to
see what they had around £200. It bites that I have to spend that much
money but seeing as it is leagues ahead of the ti-4200 then why not. My
point about re-installing a system was made because the guy with the Rad
9600 had serious errors all over the shop when he installed his card. Even
after a clean install he had to tweak things. He was quite annoyed that he
had to change 'anything'. He still maintains that the GF drivers are great.

I aim to do it right first time. In fact, I'm off next door to see if it
has arrived.

Oh yeah.


"Tom Salvin" wrote in message
...
A little OT, but where did you get the 9800np and what brand is it? I have
seen its sources dry up and increase in price even though they don't have
them in stock (Newegg and Allstarshop). I have one and ordered it just in
time it seems from NE. It is a Sapphire Atlantis and I have it O/C'ed to
350/310 with no problems. Great card if you can find one. I also was
worried
about installation and disabled (running XP Pro) my Geforce in device
manager, turned off "restore", wiped out any Nvidia references I could
find,
SD, then installed the card, rebooted, then installed drivers from the
supplied CD. They were Cat 3.4 and run fine. Maybe I was lucky, but it
wasn't the nightmare I expected. Of course, I'm still running the Cat
3.4--does that say "chicken' to anyone--I think so.

"Dam6" wrote in message
...
Well here goes nothing. A friend upgraded his PC from a GF4 ti-4200 the
other week and after formatting his system because it fell over from
putting
a 9600 Radeon in, I must say that I am not looking forward to tomorrow.
For
nearly 16 months I have had Win 2k installed at just under 1.2Gb System
install with loads of apps and games on other partitions.

I obviously do not see why I should have to re-install a system because
of
a
graphics card so I have taken a few precautions:

Downloaded Det Destroyer
Turned off fast Writes in the Bios
Gonna change the Graphics card to standard VGA before restart.
Gonna use the standard drivers that arrive on the CD first.

Will let you know what happens: Fingers crossed.