2 Formats in 24 hours and I'm still screwed *__*

[Frodolives]

Note: I did post about this in a recent related topic, but no response, and I need help please.

Apparently this started a while back when I updated my radeon drivers. My radeon 7200 started getting recognized as a pci device. I have no idea how that happened or how I didn't notice, but apparently it did, because I started noticed really bad texture stress/artifacts when trying out Tribes 2 after that update, but I just figured bad driver combination in a game that already has support issues.

Funny thing is I haven't been playing any other such graphically demandiing games and actually didn't get a clear idea that there was any other problem with graphics for a while. Well finally I see that it's on pci bus, and for 3 days now I've been doing almost nothing but trying to fix this.

Of course I've done various combinations of uninstalling the device, installing new/old/same drivers (and yes, I do know how to kill ATI drivers, deleting infs, registry, blah blah etc), updating via drivers, reverting via drivers, tried amd drivers even, default bios, reset escd, and so on. It's pretty maddening since everything has worked just fine in this configuration through previous installations, and I have pretty high confidence that it's not hardware. So I need ideas from people smarter than me, which means you!

A couple of things I haven't done yet. Mess with irq's or clear cmos. System information says that my radeon is on irq 11 along with ACPI IRQ holder for PCI IRQ Steering. Comments welcome!

btw, I am planning to buy myself a budget graphics upgrade for my bday in a couple of weeks. Not anything spectacular, but my point is: I need to fix this anyway to know what's going on, and to impact my choices. Thanks for anyone with a word of encouragement

98se
1.2 tbird
asusA7v133
512mb sdr
dx8.1

 

[gwlam12]

change your OS

clear your CMOS (that should be pretty simple)

try ur video card elsewhere, OR, try a diff vid card in ur system.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

uh...my nVidia card..has the following when doing " Properties " on it in WinXP(pretty sure every AGP vid card shows it as well ) ...PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0 <edit> pretty sure that's correct for all AGP slots...

 

[deramon]

I would suggest getting a driver uninstaller or cleanup app from the mfger. They usually have something that will clear out all the device drivers after which you could start fresh.

 

[Frodolives]

Thanks guys for the input. I do think I misjudged the problem as Scrap may have been suggesting, but at any rate in dxdiag agp texture acceleration was disabled and not available.

At some point during the second restoration I seemed to have got the magic combination of drivers and dumb luck and that much at least is straightened out. I'm confident enough at least to go ahead and choose my next card