ATI cards in an nForce2 motherboard?

[vitalsign0]

I bought an AMD system for my wife that has an A7N8X-VM/400 motherboard. I tried to install a ATI 9500 PRO in it.

I added the card, looked in the BIOS for any settings to disable onboard video and found none, booted up, uninstalled the nVidia video drivers, rebooted, installed the ATI driver.

Worked fine for awhile but now it keeps blue screening with a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_EQUAL message.

Any hints on getting this card to work in this system?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Disable fastwrites and 8x AGP in the bios and enable vid ram caching if the setting is present. Then remove the drivers and reboot into safe mode and do the install from there. You can use drivercleaner when you uninstall the Ati drivers be certain you nuke everything. I don't know what the best cats or omegas are now so someone else will have to suggest which ones to install.

 

[vitalsign0]

The BIOS is pretty limited. No options for fast writes or 8x tweaking.


Should the nVidia drivers stay?

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: vitalsign0
The BIOS is pretty limited. No options for fast writes or 8x tweaking.


Should the nVidia drivers stay?

I'd boot into safe mode if you can, and try uninstalling some of the NVIDIA drivers, I'd start with the IDE controller driver if it's been installed, that one always gives me hassles. Do each one by one, and likely one of them is the probem...

 

[sandorski]

That message is a quite common error. Run Memtest to test your ram, check your voltages, and consider increasing the Voltage to your ram. There are no problems running ATI cards on an NForce mobo.

As for drivers, you definitely need the Nvidia Nforce drivers installed, these are just for the mobo.