Ice-N

Im having major problem trying to set up my graphics card. Iv tryed everything i can think of. I cant seem to get any help from ATI on this, so the next best thing i figured is to try here. The problem im having is after i install AGP Chipset drivers, i immediately experience graphical corruption a distorted display on screen, also after installation of video drivers i tryed to take look at the display properties for my video card and the system crashes.

I hope someone out there has some technical experience at this sort'a thing. What should i do to correct this problem ? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanx

PS - The systems clean. I just formated it.

Judas

By the sounds of it, it's likely a Video card hardware issue. Either A) Incapatible (HIGHLY UNLIKELY) or B) The card is physically damaged in some form or way.

I'd suggest you take it back or RMA it.

I had a similare issue, Graphical corruption in everything. (i could get through windows usually fine with the occasional freeze). I thought it was my rig, reinstalled and still there, only it would freeze within 10 seconds of playing now. Took it back and brought home a replace but SAME card, popped it in and worked like a charm.

Hopefully you can take it back and get a over the counter exchange ans IMO, it looks like a Video Card hardware failure.

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Ice-N

Well yea thats what i thought, but i have two videocards by ATI a 9600 XT and a 9600 Pro and get this, they'v both been sent back before to be repaired multiple times actually.

Anyway I have a 9800 card i orderd on the way. If thats defective also, i guess ill just have to have a talk with there technical support and find out what tha hells goin on.

BTW - Does anybody now of a good diagnostic utility i can download to test my video RAM with ? Maybe i can find out myself if it realy is a defective card or not. Apparently ATI has no way of doing this. Kinda makes ya wonder if thier taking videocards that other people have sent in for repair and sending them back out without taking a through look at them first

Dyre Straits

I have RMA'd cards to ATi before and I can assure you, they don't just push them through and send them back out without either fixing them or replacing them.

Since you're having similar problems with several different cards on the same motherboard, I'd begin to suspect there's a problem on the system rather than on the cards you're using. Since you haven't supplied any detail about your system, that's just an educated guess. You should post your system specs for further help.

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Ice-N

Im not sure exactly what information your looking for. Iv tryed everything i could think of, and i still cant figure out whats going on. As i stated before "the systems clean i just formated" but here goes >

pr0digal jenius

it could actually be your motherboard...it you cracked or connected traces, it may very well do that.

Try putting the cards into a different machine. If they work fine there, then you need a new mainboard

Judas

if your experiencing the same problems from multiple cards, it has to be a motherboard issue. Some trace, some connection or something interferring is really not right. Sorry to have to agree wit PJ and Dyre on this as replace a Motherboard is not a pretty/nice thing to do

BTW, not sure why i didn't do this last time, but i moved this here thread to the ATI Graphics Cards forum

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EnDlEsS

Seem like ur using a KT600 chipset based mobo. Try either set the AGP to 4x or bump up the AGP voltage by 0.1v.

Zardon

From what I hear the KT600 chipset (KT400 renamed) does not do AGP 8x auto calibration.

So, when the defaults don’t work, the only option is to play with the AGP drive strength and possibly voltages. Unfortunately this is trial and error. You could also try forcing AGP 4X in the system bios.