I find it absolutely amazing how i get the one board that doesn't like the Radeon9700 Pro. My abit kg7-r board has had MANY gfx cards cause i'm gfx hardware junkie. It's had a GF4 Ti4600, GF3, GF3 Ti200, GF2 Ti, Radeon7500, Radeon8500 and have had no problems what so ever. Now we come to the Radeon9700... I get it in there, plug it into the powersupply and i get a video error bios beep. I check all connections, reseat, same thing. I unplug it from the pwr supply and i get a post on the screen telling me to plug it into the pwr supply, I do so and again i get the bios beep and no post. I then tried taking out all other PCI devices, same thing. I then tried disconnecting all drives, same beep. So then i try swapping out my ram with a brand new chip, same beep. Tried another CPU, same results.
I was beginning to think the card was bad, so i popped it in my old duron machine which has an asus a7v133 board in it, and it worked right off. I then tried it in another computer which had a Tyan motherboard, it worked again. I THEN tried it in another comp with a gigabyte board, worked in there as well. So i try it in my box with the abit board, and again it doesn't work.
Neither abit nor ati has given me any useful information about the problem i'm having. I don't see how i can be using my Ti4600 in this board for many months with no problems then switch over to the 9700 and not have it work.
Anybody else having a problem like this? Anyone know what else i can try that i haven't thought of?
thanks in advance
I was beginning to think the card was bad, so i popped it in my old duron machine which has an asus a7v133 board in it, and it worked right off. I then tried it in another computer which had a Tyan motherboard, it worked again. I THEN tried it in another comp with a gigabyte board, worked in there as well. So i try it in my box with the abit board, and again it doesn't work.
Neither abit nor ati has given me any useful information about the problem i'm having. I don't see how i can be using my Ti4600 in this board for many months with no problems then switch over to the 9700 and not have it work.
Anybody else having a problem like this? Anyone know what else i can try that i haven't thought of?
thanks in advance
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