My Radeon 9800 Pro HELP!

[FroztBite]

Alright this is my problem...i recently bought a Saphire Radeon 9800 Pro from newegg.com. Thing is it wont work! It seems to work before driver installation. Ive tried everything, every driver, omega and catalyst, different versions. I tried it on Windows 98 and it worked with drivers. But im having problems getting it to work on XP, everything is fine before i install the drivers, but when i do, it loads up. Then a few seconds later just flickers black, and scrambled images come up, almost like its trying to create the desktop image. Please help me, thanks alot, so far no one has solved my problem.

 

[febuld]

list system specs

 

[Mday]

RMA

 

[spacelord]

did you completely uninstall the drivers between each re-install? Last time I upgraded my drivers for my 9800 Pro I did not uninstall everything like the instructions say, and my system became unstable.
so.. I uninstalled the drivers and re-installed and everything works better.

This is my first ATI card.. I always have NVidia and I never had problems just installing my new drivers over my old ones. ATI is pickier...

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: Mday
RMA

I agree. Just RMA it. If you've already tried drivers, then maybe try in a 2nd machine, but don't take too long or you might not get your RMA.

 

[farscape]

As Spacelord said - Did you completely uninstall your old drivers? Run DriverCleaner to make sure everything is gone before reinstalling.

Is the molex on the vid card plugged in?

If your mb has on-board vid, have you disabled it in bios?

Also, just curious - how old is your monitor. It's been a while but, I've had a few instances where an old monitor works OK on an older system, but would not run graphically under a newer opsys due to it wouldn't handle the refresh rates of the new card.

 

[Zelmo3]

Make sure you have the right monitor drivers installed too, so that Windows knows what timings to use.