Asus P4C800 and Radeon 9800 Pro Odd Colors

[niteshadw]

I just finished setting up my system but when I run my ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128MB card, I get strange lines, blue, green and yellow when I'm in bios, dos and windows. When I connect my old PCI card, the colors are fine. I have the latest bios version, ati catalyst drivers and all, but I'm guessing I need the Virtual GART drivers but I can't find them, I've tried searching Intel.com and Asus but they do not have such a thing. The manual says I need those so my card will work proerly, if I don't get it then I may have a blank screen in windows (which I did when I installed the ati drivers - I had the lines only when I did not install the drivers). I'm guessing that is my problem so if anyone knows the solution, please let me know. I really need to know if I can solve this problem or should I get another card or what not.

 

[_Tron_]

Would you mind listing your system specs please. there could be incompatibilities with that card and your motherboard, for instance

 

[niteshadw]

My system includes:

3.0C P4
2 x 512 DDR 400 PC3200
Asus P4C800 Deluxe (1007 BIOS)
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB
120GB JB WD HDD
Sony DVD+/- RW
Samsun CD-RW/DVD combo
SB Audigy 2 Platnium

I have checked a lot of things and I'm thinking that I need a Virtual GART (AGP) driver for the motherboard, as stated in the manual, but I'm unable to located on Asus.com nor Intel.com

 

[niteshadw]

oh and I'm running Windows XP Pro, havn't had the chance to install linux yet =/

 

[_Tron_]

I've lookd all through the downloadable pdf document user manual from the asus taiwan site dated april 2003, but I don't see any mention of a "virtual gart" driver.
I'm aware of "SmartGART" as part of the ATI driver installation, is this what you meant?

Regardless of the gart issue, if you have video discrepancies appearing on screen while you're in the bios even, then a windows driver isn't going to help one bit.

May I ask which particular power supply you're using? also the brand/model number of the memory may help.

Try the card in a different system, even if you had it in one before you built this rig.
let us know any updates please. this is very similar to the type of system I'm going to be building very soon. thanks

 

[niteshadw]

Yea, I was thinking that the card was damanged or my AGP on the motherboard was damanged. I finally did check it on an older system and noticed that I get the samething. I've called up both ATI and Asus. Asus stated that they have tested that card on my motherboard and all the tests passed so I shouldn't be having these issues. ATI just concluded that its most probably damaged so I rma it. Thanks for your help though! =)