ASUS / ATI incompatibility, please help!

[suragati]

My system specs:
P4 3.06
ASUS P4G8X Deluxe MoBo
1GB of Kingston HyperX DDR370
ATI radeon 9700 Pro All In Wonder
2xMaxtor 120GB HD

Dual channel DDr is on
Hyper threading is on
All drivers and MoBo software is upgraded.

OK, I have tried everything to get that 9700 to work. I spent $133 talking to ATI in long distance phone calls, and they claim everything should be working OK. They claimed that there are no incompatibilities between ASUS MoBos and ATI hardware. Which, funny enough, is exactly the same thing ASUS said about their MoBo. However, it does not explain the fact that the performance with the 9700 is only slightly above my P3 500 with a TNT2 Ultra. How stupid is that? I dont thing that is quite right for top of the line hardware.

Now, the problem was repeated with my friends Radeon 8500 card. That is what I am using right now, because this card, unlike the 9700, does not make my computer crash every 5 minutes. Oh yeah, I forget to mention that too. The 9700 card is completely unusable because the system crashes almost immediately after bootup, and if not, than almost certainly right after I try to run ANY game. The 8500 still makes the machine hang up and crash, but at least it is semi usable, even if the card does not deserve to be in a mchine like this. All that happens, is that the games will crash every now and then, which is nothing a quick reboot will not fix.

I also used my brothers GeForce 3 card, and when that was in the machine, there were absolutely NO PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER!

So, whats the deal here peole? I know they tested the 9700 pro AIW cards in machines with my same MoBo, so maybe there is no hardware incompatibility between ASUS and ATI. However, that does not explain why it does not like the 8500 card very much either. So whats the deal? How is it that MY computer's MoBo does not like ATI cards but all the other P4G8X Deluxe MoBos out there have no problems with it whatsoever?

Please help! If you have any info whatsoever, I would be VERY happy to hear it! It has been 5 months since I built this rig, and hours of tech support phonecalls, and I still dont have a working computer! Please help!

Thanks in advance for any info.

Suragati

 

[Mem]

What`s your PSU,I hope it`s a good quality with adequate wattage?

 

[suragati]

My PSU is an AntecTru430. I think that should work just find

 

[Viper96720]

Some 9700 Pros and Intel 7205, 865, 875 chipset boards don't work well together

 

[suragati]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
Some 9700 Pros and Intel 7205, 865, 875 chipset boards don't work well together

Which ATI boards dont work well with the new Asus P4P800 board? I believe it uses the 865PE chipset. I think I have simply decided to scrap this system as inherently flawed, and start over on a new 800MHz FSB system. I am just tired of it. I spent $2800 between Jan and March of this year building this system, and I still dont have a working computer.

Its time to cus my losses, sell the parts and soak the money lost, and just build a completely new PC....sucks, but I see no other way...

 

[Viper96720]

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[ronnn]

Originally posted by: suragati

Originally posted by: Viper96720
Some 9700 Pros and Intel 7205, 865, 875 chipset boards don't work well together

Which ATI boards dont work well with the new Asus P4P800 board? I believe it uses the 865PE chipset. I think I have simply decided to scrap this system as inherently flawed, and start over on a new 800MHz FSB system. I am just tired of it. I spent $2800 between Jan and March of this year building this system, and I still dont have a working computer.

Its time to cus my losses, sell the parts and soak the money lost, and just build a completely new PC....sucks, but I see no other way...

I have a 9700pro rev 00 with an Asus P4P800 and kingston 3500 256 X2 ram. Works flawlessly, not one issue with any game or ap that I have tried.