- Apr 10, 2001
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I have had my sn41g2 running well for a couple of months, but decided to upgrade my Radeon 9700 (non-pro) to a passively cooled Gigabyte GF 6800 (GV-N68128DH). The first thing I had to do was pull out my Creative Labs soundcard as the new GFX card blocks the PCI slot. Not a big issue other than crappy onboard stuttering sound.
Can anyone help with any of the following issues?
1. The system won't run in with 1GB of RAM (2 x Crucial 512MB DDR400). I now have to remove one stick
2. The card is only showing as AGP 4x - it should be 8x
3. The performance does not seem to be any better than the old card I pulled out.
I have removed all the ATI drivers and even tried a clean install on another formatted hard drive. I am running W98SE with 77.71 Forceware drivers. CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 3000+
Power supply is Shuttles 250W. Surely if it was a power problem the card wouldn't run at all, not just slowly?
Grateful for any thoughts/help
I spy..