New x800pro--can't rotate or wake from standby

[rocketman4321]

I have a pretty-stock Sony VAIO 3.0 GHz/1 GB. The 9800pro died, and I replaced it with a Sapphire x800pro "blue"/R480. It's stock--not OC'd or piped (yet). Works great, except I can't rotate the display with either the ATI tray tool or the Samsung "magic rotation" software, and the PC won't wake from standby. I updated to the latest ATI console and drivers, but no joy.

I did run ATI tool shortly after installing the card, but it's not running normally. Otherwise, the card change was the only change. Any ideas what's wrong? Thanks!

 

[snes tor]

Now theres two different things. ATI tools, and then like Ray Adams ATI tray tools... Which one did you install?

 

[rocketman4321]

This is the one I meant: http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ I ran that after the board install to see which chip I got. It doesn't seem to leave anything behind, but that was the only other change to the config.

The ATI driver download package also installs the Catalyst Control Center, and that's running in the system tray (red ATI logo) all the time. Before the board change I could right-click on it, select the board name, and "rotate" to turn my display. Now I sort of get a blink, but the display stays upright. I had been one version old (6.8). Updated following the ATI procedure, but no change.

In standby, it's normal going in--but you have to power down after it enters. Doesn't spin up disks or drive the display. Just hung.

 

[snes tor]

what other compents do you have, harddrives? ram? PSU?

If you've recently upgraded the PSU that may be your problem.

 

[rocketman4321]

It's otherwise a stock VAIO RZ. Has a 160 GB PATA hard drive--not sure which. There 2 x 512 sticks of memory. The only change I ever made was to yank the dial-up modem card and put in an ADC HDTV card. But it worked with the 9800pro in that configuration.

The PSU is stock, 300W with 17A on the +12V. I was a bit worried about that, but the draw of the x800 didn't seem much higher than the 9800. And the display rotation fails off the desktop with no graphics app running and the fans slow. When it enters standby, it's also usually from the desktop--gotta be a fraction of max load.