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2 days ago I got my Sapphire Radeon 9500 128Mb graphics card and it's KIND OF working now. Here's my story:
I tried to install the card right away after uninstalling the Detonator drivers for my old GeForce2 card. After i did that I shut down the computer and switched cards. When I started up everything looked fine in "DOS" but in windows I got colorfull artifacts here and there and after like 10 sec my mouspointer dissappeared! It was there but I couldn't see it. then the system would hang.
So I started hunting down the problem.
I updated the BIOS to the latest (think it was A9) and that got rid of the artifacts.
Then I disabled "Fast Write" in the BIOS and that helped for the dissapperaing mouspointer problem. Guess I can live with the loss of performance here.
Now there's only one problem left.
The monitor seems to be refreshing at a very low rate (60Hz?) even though I set it to a higher rate in Windows. Changing settings in Windows doesn't change anything, I still got poor refreshrate.
I've tried ReForce but it doesn't work. I've tried different monitor drivers like plug and play and default drivers (I got a monitor without any naitive driver so I use default) and even drivers that dont belong to the monitor. Nothing works.
What to do now?
Please HELP!
My systemspecs:
Abit KT7A rev 1.0 something (I know it's under 1.3)
AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz
Sapphire Radeon 9500 128Mb
300W Powersupply
384 Mb of PC 133SDRAM Cas2
Harddrives + DVD-player + CD-burner
Nothing more of importance
2 days ago I got my Sapphire Radeon 9500 128Mb graphics card and it's KIND OF working now. Here's my story:
I tried to install the card right away after uninstalling the Detonator drivers for my old GeForce2 card. After i did that I shut down the computer and switched cards. When I started up everything looked fine in "DOS" but in windows I got colorfull artifacts here and there and after like 10 sec my mouspointer dissappeared! It was there but I couldn't see it. then the system would hang.
So I started hunting down the problem.
I updated the BIOS to the latest (think it was A9) and that got rid of the artifacts.
Then I disabled "Fast Write" in the BIOS and that helped for the dissapperaing mouspointer problem. Guess I can live with the loss of performance here.
Now there's only one problem left.
The monitor seems to be refreshing at a very low rate (60Hz?) even though I set it to a higher rate in Windows. Changing settings in Windows doesn't change anything, I still got poor refreshrate.
I've tried ReForce but it doesn't work. I've tried different monitor drivers like plug and play and default drivers (I got a monitor without any naitive driver so I use default) and even drivers that dont belong to the monitor. Nothing works.
What to do now?
Please HELP!
My systemspecs:
Abit KT7A rev 1.0 something (I know it's under 1.3)
AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz
Sapphire Radeon 9500 128Mb
300W Powersupply
384 Mb of PC 133SDRAM Cas2
Harddrives + DVD-player + CD-burner
Nothing more of importance
