GPU GURU's - Welcome!!
It's a long post, but I answer most of the "from the hip" questions for those who actually read the thing! It?s a clean build, so no other video drivers have been installed other than ATI?s Catalyst 3.1.
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro:
When accessing the ?Advanced? tab of the Display Property settings, black horizontal stripes flash across the screen for a split second and then go away. Once in the Advanced menu, don?t seem to be any other problems.
(I?ve run PowerDVD , QIII, UT, HL/CS, SC, BF1942, Office XP Pro, Adobe Premier 6.0, Cool Edit Pro 2.0 and others and haven?t noticed any other problems, yet. That ?flashing? though when accessing Display Properties has me concerned that it?s a prelude to a larger problem and being that I?ve plunked $220.00 down on ATI?s finest ? I wanna be proactive about this here glitchness.).
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Please ye Guru?s of the Graphic?s Elite, enlighten one ?9700? acolyte to the error of his ways!
Current System Specs:
1. MSI K& Master Mobo
2. AMD T-Bird 1.2Ghz/266FSB
3. 512 Mushkin 2100 High-Perf DDR-SDRAM
4. 120GB 7200rpm Western Digital Hard Drive
5. Antec TruePower/TrueBlue 480w Power Supply
6. Plextor PlexWriter 24x CD-RW
7. Logitech MX700
8. ViewSonic PF790 Monitor
9. 3com Etherlink 10/100 NIC
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Original Build used Enermax Whisper EG465P-VE 431w but was replaced w/the Antec 480w
1. BIOS reset to defaults ? then reconfigure for 133/33 =266FSB & CD-ROM Boot.
2. FDisk\Created Partition\Set Active.
3. Booted from WinXP Pro CD-ROM & Formatted NTFS, then Installed OS then reset BIOS device boot order.
4. Installed Linksys 10/100 EtherFast 2.0 NIC (OS Hang on XP Loading - two times). Booted to Safemode w/o networking and loaded into OS fine. Attempted Boot into Safemode w/networking and load sequence locked up on ?amdagp.sys?.
5. Removed NIC and Linksys Drivers from CP & Registry and booted into OS w/out error.
6. Installed LS Etherfast 5.1 NIC and experienced same hang at ?amdagp.sys?. Removed from CP & Reg and rebooted into OS w/out error.
7. Installed Netgear FA311TX NIC and experienced same & uninstalled.
8. Installed 3Com EtherLink 10/100 and booted into OS w/out error WHEEEEE!!
9. Downloaded/Installed current Drivers for 3Com NIC.
10. Updated OS to SP-1 and every update/patch except for the .NET.
11. Performed MSI ?Live-Update? for Mobo BIOS, Onboard Sound, Via Chipset etc.
12. Checked Device Manager for unkown & errors ? none.
13. Checked ?System Information? for IRQ conflicts & resource load errors ? none.
14. Installed Viewsonic WHQL drivers & verified listing changed from ?default monitor?.
15. Disabled Services: Windows Time, Task Scheduler, Secondary Logon, Routing/Remote Access, Remote Registry, Messenger, HID Access, Fast User Switch, Error Reproting Service, Dist. Link Tracking, Comp Browser, Automatic Updates.
16. Set QOS Limit Bandwidth reserve to active and 0%.
17. Set System Performance to BEST (w/exception of XP GUI).
18. Installed DIRECTX 9.0
19. Downloaded ATI Catalyst 3.1 Drivers & Control Panel & installed. Verified that Device manager now listed Primary/Secondary default VGA as Radeon 9700 Series and Radeon 9700 Series Secondary.
20. Set Resolution & Refresh to 1024x768@100hz 32bit on both the ?Monitor? and ?Displays? tabs of the ATI Control Panel.
21. Rebooted and locked up on desktop, booted into Safemode and viewed event log ?found the following error:
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Administrative Tools "System" Event Log
Source: ati2mtag
Type: Error
Event ID: 108
?The driver ati2dvag for the display device \Device\video0 got stuck in a infinite loop. Blah blah blah = device driver, check w/vendor for update?.
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Administrative Tools "System" Event Log
22. Rebooted and all seemed to load fine. Checked logs again ? no errors.
23. Verified all Display settings had been maintained but noticed that whenever I accessed the ?Advanced? tab of the Display settings, Black horizontal lines would flash for a split second across the screen.
I began searching the forums, changing BIOS settings, loading compatability defaults, minimizing AGP transfer & aperture, Video Caching, IRQ polling and then maximizing all the settings in BIOS and OS Display Settings one at a time, but to no avail.
Which brings me here. Last stop shop before I RMA the board and wait for ATI?s next release. If I can get this here card workin? w/out sign of error ? I?ll be pleased as punch and keep it, but if there?s so much as a hiccup ? that?s enough reason for me to put $220+ toward a different animal.
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Challenge to the Adventurous & Elite!!
You, the unique and disturbingly knowledgeable about GPU intracacies = what have I missed? what are the error of my ways!? (Nvidia fanboys ----> jump in here <------)
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______________________________
Challenge to the Adventurous & Elite!!
Thank you very much for your time and input!
It's a long post, but I answer most of the "from the hip" questions for those who actually read the thing! It?s a clean build, so no other video drivers have been installed other than ATI?s Catalyst 3.1.
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro:
When accessing the ?Advanced? tab of the Display Property settings, black horizontal stripes flash across the screen for a split second and then go away. Once in the Advanced menu, don?t seem to be any other problems.
(I?ve run PowerDVD , QIII, UT, HL/CS, SC, BF1942, Office XP Pro, Adobe Premier 6.0, Cool Edit Pro 2.0 and others and haven?t noticed any other problems, yet. That ?flashing? though when accessing Display Properties has me concerned that it?s a prelude to a larger problem and being that I?ve plunked $220.00 down on ATI?s finest ? I wanna be proactive about this here glitchness.).
_____________________________________________________________________
Please ye Guru?s of the Graphic?s Elite, enlighten one ?9700? acolyte to the error of his ways!
Current System Specs:
1. MSI K& Master Mobo
2. AMD T-Bird 1.2Ghz/266FSB
3. 512 Mushkin 2100 High-Perf DDR-SDRAM
4. 120GB 7200rpm Western Digital Hard Drive
5. Antec TruePower/TrueBlue 480w Power Supply
6. Plextor PlexWriter 24x CD-RW
7. Logitech MX700
8. ViewSonic PF790 Monitor
9. 3com Etherlink 10/100 NIC
______________________________________________________________________
Original Build used Enermax Whisper EG465P-VE 431w but was replaced w/the Antec 480w
1. BIOS reset to defaults ? then reconfigure for 133/33 =266FSB & CD-ROM Boot.
2. FDisk\Created Partition\Set Active.
3. Booted from WinXP Pro CD-ROM & Formatted NTFS, then Installed OS then reset BIOS device boot order.
4. Installed Linksys 10/100 EtherFast 2.0 NIC (OS Hang on XP Loading - two times). Booted to Safemode w/o networking and loaded into OS fine. Attempted Boot into Safemode w/networking and load sequence locked up on ?amdagp.sys?.
5. Removed NIC and Linksys Drivers from CP & Registry and booted into OS w/out error.
6. Installed LS Etherfast 5.1 NIC and experienced same hang at ?amdagp.sys?. Removed from CP & Reg and rebooted into OS w/out error.
7. Installed Netgear FA311TX NIC and experienced same & uninstalled.
8. Installed 3Com EtherLink 10/100 and booted into OS w/out error WHEEEEE!!
9. Downloaded/Installed current Drivers for 3Com NIC.
10. Updated OS to SP-1 and every update/patch except for the .NET.
11. Performed MSI ?Live-Update? for Mobo BIOS, Onboard Sound, Via Chipset etc.
12. Checked Device Manager for unkown & errors ? none.
13. Checked ?System Information? for IRQ conflicts & resource load errors ? none.
14. Installed Viewsonic WHQL drivers & verified listing changed from ?default monitor?.
15. Disabled Services: Windows Time, Task Scheduler, Secondary Logon, Routing/Remote Access, Remote Registry, Messenger, HID Access, Fast User Switch, Error Reproting Service, Dist. Link Tracking, Comp Browser, Automatic Updates.
16. Set QOS Limit Bandwidth reserve to active and 0%.
17. Set System Performance to BEST (w/exception of XP GUI).
18. Installed DIRECTX 9.0
19. Downloaded ATI Catalyst 3.1 Drivers & Control Panel & installed. Verified that Device manager now listed Primary/Secondary default VGA as Radeon 9700 Series and Radeon 9700 Series Secondary.
20. Set Resolution & Refresh to 1024x768@100hz 32bit on both the ?Monitor? and ?Displays? tabs of the ATI Control Panel.
21. Rebooted and locked up on desktop, booted into Safemode and viewed event log ?found the following error:
_______________________________
Administrative Tools "System" Event Log
Source: ati2mtag
Type: Error
Event ID: 108
?The driver ati2dvag for the display device \Device\video0 got stuck in a infinite loop. Blah blah blah = device driver, check w/vendor for update?.
_______________________________
Administrative Tools "System" Event Log
22. Rebooted and all seemed to load fine. Checked logs again ? no errors.
23. Verified all Display settings had been maintained but noticed that whenever I accessed the ?Advanced? tab of the Display settings, Black horizontal lines would flash for a split second across the screen.
I began searching the forums, changing BIOS settings, loading compatability defaults, minimizing AGP transfer & aperture, Video Caching, IRQ polling and then maximizing all the settings in BIOS and OS Display Settings one at a time, but to no avail.
Which brings me here. Last stop shop before I RMA the board and wait for ATI?s next release. If I can get this here card workin? w/out sign of error ? I?ll be pleased as punch and keep it, but if there?s so much as a hiccup ? that?s enough reason for me to put $220+ toward a different animal.
______________________________
Challenge to the Adventurous & Elite!!
You, the unique and disturbingly knowledgeable about GPU intracacies = what have I missed? what are the error of my ways!? (Nvidia fanboys ----> jump in here <------)
.______________________________
Challenge to the Adventurous & Elite!!
Thank you very much for your time and input!
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