9700 Pro problem with power connector!!!

[jesusbonjovi]

here's an update:

Received reply email and they told me to send it back and even credited my PayPal account for the shipping expenses .....and then damn PayPal took $0.40 of the transaction...

in reply to Captain_Howdy's question as to why i am using Windows 98 is because i have never tried XP and the instalation was giving me a few problems. Windows 98 installed easily for me. Also i was having lots and lots of problems booting and the bios recognizing my hard drives (it took me a while to find out that i needed to manualy specify which hard drive i should boot from!) anyway i barely set this system up and i installed windows 98 on an old 2GB drive just for test purposes and recovery. i used the 2gb drive as a guinepig since my other drives seemed to have corrupt boot sectors eversince i connected them to this computer and tried to boot. I intend to run windows 98 until i can succesfully back up an 80GB drive (which is also backed up to a 160GB drive) i think i only need about 60gb of that stuff.... and it seems i will be burning the whole thing onto DVDs....

once i am done with the long and tedious process of backing up and organizing i shall try to instal windows xp.... i hope i will have my replacement video card by then

thanks for everyone's help

 

[RiDE]

Hope it works out for you.

I've had 3 9700s and all 4 pins were intact.

 

[eRacer]

I also have an Abit KV8, A64 2800+ and Radeon 9700 Pro with the floppy connector. I have the same problem with 3DMark 2001. It ALWAYS locks up on one of the Dragothic or Lobby levels. The only 3D game I've played with it so far is Star Trek: Armada II and it has run flawlessly. I also opened up the case thinking heat might be a problem, but that didn't help. I tried changing from Cat 4.6 to Cat 4.7 drivers with no improvement. Fast writes are off. This is a clean install of Windows XP so old drivers remnants and such aren't a problem. This same Radeon 9700 Pro worked fine in my Epox 8K9A/AXP 2500+ system.