ATI X800 XL Drivers problem - any ideas

[icanqps]

Trying to install a Powercolor X800 XL PCIe card in an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe based system. After installing just the ATI drivers (latest downloaded from ATI website), XP SP2 boots up with a screen resolution of 640x480. In Display Properties, two monitors are shown although only one monitor is actually connected. Under Display Settings only 3 screen resolutions are shown - 640x480, 640x960 and 800x600. Doesn't matter which you select, it is impossible to change the resolution of monitor #1.

Under Advanced settings/List all modes, none of the normal resolutions (1024x764, 1152x864, 1280x1024 etc) are listed. Selecting any mode causes the PC to reboot.

When installing the ATI Control Panel software in addition to the drivers, on reboot the XP splash screen is shown and then the blue screen of death for a split second. The PC reboots itself and then shows a screen where you can opt to boot in safe mode. If you again boot normally the cycle repeats itself. So the PC will never finish booting with the ATI Control Panel Software installed.

This happened with the BIOS v1002 and is again happening after flahing to BIOS v1006, downloaded from the Asus website.

Anyone got any solutions/ideas?

System:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
Powercolor X800 XL
Western Digital WD740GD hard drive
Plextor 16/10/40A
2GB PC3200 memory
350W ATX power supply

 

[rbV5]

Did you install all of your motherboard drivers prior to the ATI card, and is it the first graphic card installation for that motherboard?

 

[icanqps]

Initially following drivers installed from CD provided with mobo:

nVidia Chipset Driver
Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet driver
Realtek audio driver
AMD Cool'n'Quiet
USB 2.0

These drivers installed before attempting ATI install.

Yes, this is the first graphics card install for this mobo. I am considering purchase of a nVidia based graphics card to test if this is an nVidia.ATI conflict. Don't want to spend another 2-300 bucks though if I can avoid it.

 

[Ackmed]

Its not a conflict between the card, and mobo. I have an ATi card on the same mobo, as do many others.

Do you have .net? 9.0c, or SP2 (which has 9.0c). Perhaps try to remove the drivers, and install from scratch again. I have not had a problem anything like that.

 

[rbV5]

Maybe your driver pack is corrupted. Isn't that a VIVO card as well? I'd download the drivers again, and get the full pack with the Control Panel and WDM drivers and start over.

 

[icanqps]

Yes, .NET, 9.0c and SP2 all installed first.

Thought I would try moving the card to the second PCI-e slot and try again. During install from the provided ATI CD-ROM, the following error message came up:

Record not find on MSI DB. Return error code is: =0

I have no idea what this is and have not found much doing a Google search.

Don't know if it affects the install and performance of the card.

 

[BFG10K]

Initially following drivers installed from CD provided with mobo:

Don't ever install CD driver unless there's nothing better. Download the latest versions from the 'net. This is especially true of chipset & GPU drivers.