Problems upon installation of drivers

[Kyler]

Hi guys,

I am having problems with my PCI video card on my parents computer.

I stick the card in. Windows logo displays correctly etc then once it gets into Windows it's in 640*480 mode and does not display the whole screen. Fair enough, no drivers. So I install the drivers (I have cat 3.7 I think they are) and these install then I reboot.

Upon reboot, the Windows logo displays correctly again and the "loading windows" but once it actually gets to showing the desktop the monitor turns itself of as if it's not plugged in at all.

Now I can't see a freakin thing so I have to turn off computer, remove the PCI vid card and plug it back into the motherboard video.

I have tried installing the latest ATI drivers as well and this had no effect.

Could it be the card defaulting to a too high refresh rate and forcing the monitor to not respond? It is because I am using the drivers from my 9600 Pro and not the install disk that came with the PCI Radeon 9000?

Hopefully someone can help me!

 

[Marsumane]

So you are using a ATI 9000 pci card? How about the rest of the specs of the system and what version of windows you are using. After that, we may be able to help

 

[Kyler]

My bad

It's a Cele 1.2ghz, 256 Ram running Windows XP Home.

The card HAS worked in the past but the computer has since been reformatted. The first time I installed the card I would have used the installation disk that came with the 9000. Now I do not have this cd anymore, so I used the disk from my 9600pro for the drivers as it has ATI drivers on it.

After this did not work, I downloaded the latest drivers from ATI and had exactly the same problem. I am assuming that any set of ATI drivers should work with this card and that I should not need the original cd. This is where I may be wrong as this is just an assumption.

 

[Kyler]

bump

 

[pirred908]

Did you check the proper settings in the BIOS? On a friends computer I had to change the video setting from internal to extrnal for his video to work properly. Could it be that you have a newer version of directx installed on windows that your video card doesn't support? That was a wild guess.