HELP: Radeon 9550 Vid Card Issues

[kadikized]

Hi all, (first post)

I dont do a lot of gaming and wanted a quiet system so I picked up a Radeon 9550 128 MB video card for my new shuttle system.

The onboard video works fine.
A 6600 gt that I borrowed to test worked just fine.

But when I start up with the Radeon 9550, the initial start up screens area always visible - but windows (XP) starts to load and the screen goes black and then I get this message:

ANALOG
OUT OF RANGE
46 . 4 kHz / 87 Hz

Ive got no idea how to remedy this. I tried starting up in safe mode but that didnt work...I picked up the card on eBay...but the seller has a perfect rating, so I dont think the card is damaged.

My setup
Shuttle SN41G2 V3
Athlon 3200
2x512 Ram
MONITOR: LG 1980U LCD

Thanks alot!

 

[unclebud]

tried a different monitor?

 

[kadikized]

Nah...I dont have another one at my disposal right now.

Would there be anything I have to unistall from the 6600 gt card that was there before (besides the 6600 gt itself)?

 

[Sforsyth]

did you unistall the 6600gt 's drivers before putting in that Radeon ? proply not that but who knows, I like to reinstall Windows fresh and clean when ever I get new hardware.

 

[unclebud]

umm maybe the drivers
alright, since no montior, maybe try this
go into desktop settings and knock it down to 60-70HZ... 640x460 resolution might help also

 

[kadikized]

Unclebud,
If I understand your post...I should uninstall the radeon and then change the desktop settings (since I only get black with the Radeon installed)...otherwise, how would I see the desktop settings?

 

[kadikized]

Ok. I followed Unclebud's suggestion...removed the video card and set the monitor settings real low...but I got the same result when I reinstalled the Radeon:

ANALOG
OUT OF RANGE
46 . 4 kHz / 87 Hz

Any more advice? Thanks!

 

[302efi]

Try your card in you friends computer and see what happens with the card then

 

[Crescent13]

have you tried lowering the refresh rate, i mean like reeeeallly low (60hz), that might work. 302efi, you are not spreading the word about bunny properly copy my sig and change yours to mach it.

EDIT: See, you have to let others know to copy him into their signatures.

 

[302efi]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
... 302efi, you are not spreading the word about bunny properly copy my sig and change yours to mach it.

EDIT: See, you have to let others know to copy him into their signatures.

Fixed

 

[kadikized]

Crescent13,
I did try lowering both the refresh rate and the resolution...no luck.
I will take the computer to work next week and mess with it there and plug my work monitor into it...its a CRT

thanks.

 

[unclebud]

okay, good luck... was gonna ask if it was a plain 9550 or a sapphire or something
who's the manufacturer? do they have forums?
would really like to help, seems like a familiar problem (to me)

 

[kadikized]

Its a gigabyte half height something or other.

 

[Peter]

It appears the card fires up in 1024x768 interlaced, something recent monitors don't support anymore.

Boot up in VGA mode and fix that manually.

edit: Why don't you feed the thing DVI anyway?

 

[kmmatney]

Like the last post, I would suggest using the DVI connector. For some reason the analog is trying to run at an 87 Hz refresh rate, which many monitors don't support. Can you run in VGA mode (press F8 while booting up).

 

[Peter]

87 Hz, 46 kHz is the standard (!) original 1024x768 interlaced mode that IBM first used on the original XGA monitors.

Today's CRTs still display that, but many LCD units don't bother support interlaced analog signals. Bring the driver up to 60 Hz or use DVI, whereby the graphics card produces the exact timing the display natively supports best.

 

[unclebud]

hopefully he got it to work... he ain't saying much?
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=463

 

[kadikized]

Thanks guys...
the VGA startup was the trick. After that, I was able to reset the options. Me happy.