9600np POS

[KMurphy]

I tried to upgrade video cards from an Asus V7700 Geforce 2 GTS to a PowerColor 9600np today. This is the single most difficult upgrade I have ever attempted. The Asus card is starting to flake out in 3D games by making a high pitched whining sound and displaying a blue background with white penstripes. The lockups are getting more frequent, but only in 3D applications.


Issue #1
Connected monitor (Nokia 446Xpro) to VGA port on card. Booted up to see green text/graphics where normally white text is on BIOS POST.
Shut down and used DVI-VGA adapter to connect VGA monitor to DVI input on card and this resolved the issue.

Issue #2
Card installed and try to install ATI software, but system locks up midway through installation. The conflict is with my SCSI driver "fireport.sys". I tried 3 times, each locking up to blue screen indicating fireport.sys had crashed. I copy driver CD to harddrive and remove my SCSI adapter. Drivers/ATI software installs.

Issue #3
Rebooting after successfull hardware and software installation locks up after Windows 2000 splash screen. This time ATI is conflicting with LSASS.EXE. This is the first time I see the cool immenent shutdown notification screen telling me how many seconds I have before all work in progress is lost. This operating system has been through numerous hardware upgrades and never have I experienced anything this bad.

I will be exchanging the 9600np for an FX5600 as I know nVidia drivers work on this system. Has anyone else had these troubles switching to ATI?

Admittedly, most of my hardware is ancient in computer terms; but still performs acceptably. Windows 2000 has accepted everything I've thrown at it with no problems.

One gripe I have about the ATI installation is that you have to execute the software for it to automatically install drivers. I would prefer to point to the correct driver from hardware manager and avoid the automagic stuff.

I tried everything within reason to get this card to work on what should have been a painless installation. I even RTFM, which is something I never have to resort to when installing hardware.

 

[clicknext]

Strange, I had no troubles switching a friend from Geforce2 MX to that exact card a few days ago.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

"OMGZ, my ancient GhettoTech computer isn't working with the latest video card ..."

Let me guess, you just pulled out the gF2 and dropped in the ATI card, right? Didn't uninstall drivers at all, let alone a few shots with NFR and DriverCleaner?

- M4H

 

[Quixfire]

I haven't had any problems installing ATI cards in any system. I have had more trouble updating drivers on Nivida cards than ATI. Did you uninstall the video drivers before changing the video cards?

 

[CraigRT]

I switched from a 4200 to a 9700 Pro

I usually just do upgrades and don't care.. I pulled out the 4200, put in the 9700 and installed the software... not the right way to do it.. and hey it works perfect.. haha

i have issues in some games, but, i am sure it's not that.. cause most games run like a charm i love my 9700 pro overall.

 

[Sid59]

gotta remember to uninstall nvidia drivers , purge the registry.

 

[Rogodin2]

I do reformats between vendors cards just do know that it's not a driver problem.

Sounds strange though (the artifacting) what's your system temp and did you ground yourself when installing?

rogo

 

[Peter]

Sounds like it's not the (previous) graphics card who's on his way out ...

If your system acts up, and continues to do so after you changed your suspected component, then you've changed the wrong one.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Peter
Sounds like it's not the (previous) graphics card who's on his way out ...

If your system acts up, and continues to do so after you changed your suspected component, then you've changed the wrong one.

I agree here. You may have a video driver issue but it sounds like you've got another problem that's not video related as well.