ASUS P5A and ATI RADEON 7000 PCI W2K issues

[THEWIORACLE]

Having trouble keeping new Radeon 7000 PCI 64MB video card working in Windows 2000 prof. It either locks up in a few minutes or causes monitor to go to sleep during bootup. ASUS P5A Super7 ATX motherboard. Newest BIOs 1010 Beta 1. It only works if I have "Hardware Acceleration" set to none in Windows. As soon as I turn acceleration on by moving the slider button...my monitor will go into sleep mode. Monitor is Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 21FS. My original BIOS that I started with was a 1009 Beta BIOS - I have been running with it for 2 years with a older ATI ALL-IN-WONDER PRO PCI Card. I used the original driver that came with the ATI CD and downloaded ATI's newest RADEON 7000 driver. This is a PCI video card and not an AGP card. Running a AMD K6-3 400 with ALI Aladdin V chipset and newer 300watt ATX Power Supply - AMD approved.

 

[AA0]

have you tried disabling any bios settings in the bios? my p5a ran fine with my 8500 for a few days.

 

[THEWIORACLE]

Did you say you had a Radeon 8500 AGP running in your P5A? If so what did you have to do to make it work? Which version of BIOS? Did you have to change voltage settings? I'd love to get a AGP card to work in this "one of the first AGP boards out" P5A.

 

[BFG10K]

Running a AMD K6-3 400 with ALI Aladdin V chipset and newer 300watt ATX Power Supply - AMD approved.

Motherboards for old AMD processors are notorious for having widespread AGP problems. Make sure you're running AGP x1 mode and turn off all AGP features like fastwrites or sidebanding. Also make sure you have the latest chipset drivers for your system.

 

[AA0]

I had a beta bios, forget which version, made about jan of last year. Stuck it in, and it worked fine. ATI uses much less power then nvidia, so agp problems with older boards aren't as much of a factor.

 

[THEWIORACLE]

Got the PCI-based ATI Radeon 7000 to work. It was either PCI Latency Timer (0, I changed to 25) or Frame Buffer Posted Write (disable). It works great now.

 

[thecrews]

oh my gosh the Frame Buffer Posted Write being disabled fixed my problem. I can boot win98 now
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