ATI All in Wonder making me wonder about chucking it

jonnoj

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Sep 9, 2001
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I just bought an ATI All in Wonder 128 32MB PCI (it was a steal@90$ at CompUSA)

The reason I bought a PCI card instead of a AGP is I wanted to run it along side my GeForce2 GTS (another steal@100$)

I get home, rip open the package, and throw the card in the nearest open PCI slot, install the drivers, reboot - Windows 2000 displays it as an ATI All in Wonder Ultra PCI, I figure a name is a name, goto my display properties and select dual monitor - I throw Winamp and my AIM Buddy List on the second monitor and boom! My computer locks up. Not the kinda lockup you can CTRL+ALT+DEL you can get yourself out of, but a lockup that requires you to pull the plug :\

I've tried all the drivers, and they've all locked up. I even tried removing the GeForce2 and running the PCI alone, and it still locks up.

Is there any way to prevent lockups? All I wanna do is run dual monitors, and capture/watch TV :\


Here are my specs:
AMD TBird 1.33@1.525 (11x138)
iWill KK266-R w/ on-board C-Media 5.1 Sound
640mb PC133 SDRAM (2x256,1x128)
2x IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40G ATA100
1x IBM Deskstar 25G ATA66
GeForce2 GTS 32mb DDR
NetGear NIC
Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Intellimouse Web
Microsoft Web Keyboard USB
Hitachi GD-5000 DVD-ROM
Lite-On 1610 16x10x40x CD-RW
Acer 12x10x32x CD-RW
Promise TX2Ultra100 IDE Controller
Antec SX1030B Server Case

 

duragezic

Lifer
Oct 11, 1999
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Do you have the newest Via 4-in-1 drivers and the newest BIOS?

Also, when you say you pulled the GF2 and only ran the AIW and it still locked up, where did it lock up? If you only had that one card then it couldn't have locked up in dual-monitor mode right?