ATI 8500LE 128mb tsk tsk tsk..... Problems Problems problems

[Kerouactivist]

Ok I buy a refurbed ATI built card from newegg.
Put it in my system, installed the latest drivers from ATI
1.333
8k7a+
512ddr
Antec 1040 400 watt
Windows XP pro

It locks ups doing just normal things,like a mofo can't even al-control-delete.
it locked up one time before when I tried to post here.

Locks up in battlefield 1942 after about a minute.

Should I send the card back to newegg?

Or is it another one of ATI' famous driver problems?

Please help me ASAP I gotta leave for awhile but, I will have to RMA this card back to newegg in the next day or two to get my money back.

and a preadvanced thanks ATers your lifesavers

 

[GTaudiophile]

How did you install it? Did you properly uninstall the drivers from your old card?

 

[apoppin]

installed the latest drivers from newegg

????

You mean Catalyst 2.4 from ATI? They were released last week. And remove absolutely every last trace of your old video card's drivers.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Uninstall old drivers.
Use the program RegClean to delete all traces of old drivers.
Download the latest Catalyst 2.4s from ATi.
(Make sure you have DirectX 8.1 installed.)

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Uninstall old drivers.
Use the program RegClean to delete all traces of old drivers.
Download the latest Catalyst 2.4s from ATi.
(Make sure you have DirectX 8.1 installed.)

I've even heard for the 8500 you should have the latest - DX 8.1b - installed.

Picky but necessary (and so worthwhile).

 

[DieHardware]

I buy a refurbed ATI built card from newegg

It locks ups doing just normal things

Should I send the card back to newegg?

Nah, couldn't be a bad card, has to be the ATI drivers.

😕

 

[Kerouactivist]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Uninstall old drivers.
Use the program RegClean to delete all traces of old drivers.
Download the latest Catalyst 2.4s from ATi.
(Make sure you have DirectX 8.1 installed.)

Tried this still having the same problem, help ASAP I am going to ship back tommorrow if I can't get it fixed.

 

[Bovinicus]

It is probably a problem with the card. It may have gotten damaged during shipping.

 

[Kerouactivist]

Originally posted by: Bovinicus
It is probably a problem with the card. It may have gotten damaged during shipping.

The card looks "mustard" but, I guess I will just RMA and hope the next one works.

 

[BeauJangles]

I have an 8k7a and bought a GF3 Ti500 a few months ago. I had almost the exact same problems you are describing, except I got random reboots as well. Turns out it was three problems: BIOS was too old, the card drew too much power (so i fixed that with a 400 watt ps 🙂), and I had driver conflicts.

 

[Kerouactivist]

I am pretty sure I have the latest bios how do you check and I have an antec 400watt powersupply so that should suffice I would think

 

[MadRat]

Sometimes its just a POS Radeon problem. Some of the Radeon cards are just a POS. I've got an SDR card that is doing the exact same thing; the card is less than 6 months old. I even blamed it on the power supply thinking this card cannot be bad. Funny thing is that the PC is completely stable without the POS card in it. Another Radeon DDR board I gave my little brother works fine after over a year of heavy use. Another brother has an 8500LE and it works like a dream. Looks like this SDR card is just a POS so its time to RMA.