ECS K7S5A Pro Radeon 9200 headaches HELP!!

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Tannah

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I just purcased myself a ATI 9200 Card, I was running a ATI 7500 Radeon before, and I've run into a rather annoying problem Various system critial progams (apparely) will crash before I get a chance to log in, stuff like vsmon.exe, WinMgmt.exe. then when I finally log in I get to see my back ground for a second then it boots me back to the login screen. If I restart the computer it then often will not give me a error message and I'll have the same problem. I've found that if I take out the SIS AGP driver that I can boot in, but as soon as I try to reinstall the SIS AGP driver the same problem comes up again.. I've tryed tinkering in the bios to no avail, I've tryed cleaning the cards contacts. Ive even tryed a difffrent ATI 9200 that was working fine on another computer, All have the same result. and it seems If I leave out that SIS AGP driver I loose all my acceleration.
Can anyone help me out.. I'm kinda at a loss at what to do next... I'm almost sure its not a Hardware problem (atleast with the Video card) and the OS install isnt too old either..
anyways HELP!!! :)

I have a ECS K7S5A PRO Motherboard running the SiS735 chipset.
Version 030811 AMI BIOS releced 2003/8/25
Operating System Windows 2000 Pro SP4
Perhapals:
Creative Audigy
ATI Radeon 9200
512 DDR ram
750mhz thunderbird
300 Watt power supply
2 Western digital 10Gig drives
1 Maxtor 60 gig drive
1 HP cd-writer
 
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Tannah

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the power supply is made by Youngyear eletronics (its a couple years old) and I've had 4 hard drives running on it simatanulsy with the ATI Radeon 7500.

the Ram is Made By Infinion and is realitivly new.

The crashes only popup when the SIS AGP driver is installed
 
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Tannah

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Now that I think of it I also had the same problem with a Diamond TNT2 when I first installed the motherboard, thats why I got the ATI Radeon 7500
 
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I would first try using a better power supply. This ECS is really fussy with power supplies. I would shoot for an Antec 300w or larger.
 
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Tannah

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well to reply to this I did eventually find a fix, it was a little regestry hack to do with AMD processors and improving the AGP preformance, after I put the patch in everything worked great.. The power supply is still working fine (knock on wood)
 
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could you please supply linkage for the fix you found? i would like to read about it myself because i too have a k7s5a pro mobo and am about to give it to a family member and would like to know what to do if this ever occurs for me.

thanks
 
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