Radeon 9600 Pro 256

xracer900zxracer900z
edited April 2004 in Hardware
I just purchased a Radeon 9600 Pro 256 card for my computer over the holiday. I couldn't get it to play any games whatsoever, it will lock up or crash my computer within about 1 minute. I tried the same card in my friends Compaq P4 2.0 mechine and it works beautifully. I tried reloading my entire system, running XP as the OS, and I still have the same problem. Here are my comptuer specs....AMD Athlon 1.0GHZ, Radeon 9600 Pro 256, Linksys Ethernet card, Soundblaster X-Gamer card, And a Mach1 56k Modem....which isnt necessary it was just left in computer from when i upgraded to cable internet. If anyone has any suggestions or has had the same problems with constant lock ups during any gaming related activity, please help me out. thanks.....Mark

Comments

  • NebulousNebulous New York, The Empire State
    edited January 2004
    Hmmm, what video card did you have before installing the 9600 pro?

    Did you uninstall the old video card drivers?

    I had a similar problem with my 9700 pro. I had a GF4 Ti4600. I went into device manager and uninstalled the gf4. Then i put in an old pci vid card to be able to uninstall all the leftover drivers. Once that's done, then i installed the 9700 pro and windows xp installed it's generic drivers. I then downloaded the latest Ati drivers and installed those. Evrything went smooth as silk.

  • xracer900zxracer900z
    edited January 2004
    At first, i deleted all of the old drivers. That didnt work, so i reloaded my whole system using the 9600 during reload. So it had no memory of the old card....it still didnt work, which leads me to believe its a hardware issue.
  • NebulousNebulous New York, The Empire State
    edited January 2004
    Hmmm, I see it's an 8X card. Does your mobo support 8X? I have a gut feeling your 1ghz machine can't support it.
  • VasaVasa
    edited April 2004
    Nebulous wrote:
    Hmmm, I see it's an 8X card. Does your mobo support 8X? I have a gut feeling your 1ghz machine can't support it.


    Hmmm. Even if the mobo would be 4X, it would still run the video card but only at 4X.

    But... This happened to my friend. He bought a Complaq Athlon. And he always told me that Athlon is so much better than Pentium. My brother told me that Athlon is good but the mobos made for Athlon are extremely bad. So there is always a chance of a mother board being defected or something. Anyway, my friend bought GeForce 4 MX, and it didn't work on his comp. It would work for like 5 minutes and then the PC would continuously freeze. I bought myself a new PC, but I didn't have a video card, so I borrowed his GeForce 4 and guess what, it worked perfectly on my PC.

    So the problem could be in mother board.
  • rapturerapture
    edited April 2004
    I just bought one too and have it running in a KT133a chipset board. Before this same board has problems running a FX5600 which is now in a KT266 board running fine.

    Could be a power thing, an old driver thing or something else. I'd look for BIOS updates for your mobo first.
  • gr8hehegr8hehe
    edited April 2004
    hey...maybe you need to connect it to powersupply..those new atis and nvidias need that.....
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