radeon 7500 all in wonder driver problem?

[gredhead]

I have an ECS K7S5A motherboard, 1 GHz Duron, 64Mb RAM to begin, now 160 Mb, Win2K pro,
ATI Radeon 7500 All in Wonder. Loaded drivers and software from CDs that came with
7500 AIW, had BSODs and some other problems. Added RAM and installed latest AGP driver
for motherboard, latest drivers and software from ATI. Everything working pretty good,
except no audio on one TV channel. Sent problem report to ATI and called tech support.
They said uninstall all ATI drivers and software, and reinstall new drivers and software
from scratch. Did so, but after installing video card drivers, the display will not
sync properly horizontally. Going to safe mode, VGA enabled safe mode, the display
could be read, but not normal boot. Formatted hard disk and did clean install of win2K,
direct x 8.1 and applications. Tried installing new ATI drivers and software, and had
same problem, if tried to raise resolution from 640x480 to 800x600, there are only
horizontal lines on the monitor. Started with another clean install and added ATI drivers
and software from CDs to start, and had same problem with no horiz sync - yet this
should be the same as original installation!!!!!!, which worked fine except for the
audio problem on one channel. Someone please help.

 

[Willoughbyva]

I really don't know You might want to download and install the latest agp drivers from sis and see if that helps along with the updated ati drivers for the video card. I do know you can't mix ddr and regular ram on that board. Do you have the latest bios for the motherboard? Also what type of power supply do you have; is it 300 watts or higher? Is agp set to 4x in the bios?

Good luck

Will

 

[Willoughbyva]

Also you might want to test your memory with memtest86 to see if it passes. What is your temps? There might be a pc health section in your bios that lists the temps for your system. Are you overclocking? If so don't until you get your system stable. Try setting bios to defaults and then try installing everything.



Will

 

[gredhead]

Thanks for the suggestions. I installed the latest AGP drivers, from ECS motherboard site - before the new ATI drivers and software for the all in wonder. Those were also installed before the retry with original supplied CD ATI drivers. So I don't see how everything could be working (except audio on one TV channel), then fall apart with new ATI drivers (not beyond the possible), yet with a clean load from formated hard drive, can't get anything with even the original CD software and drivers. And the problem is the same indication as when the new drivers seemed to blow it all apart. System temp runs 84 f and processor 111 f. Its a new Antec 330w true power. AGP 4x is enabled in the BIOS. I saw on another forum that a lot of people had problems with two sticks of SDRAM (what I have), so tomorrow night I will try
taking the 32mb stick out and running with just the 128 mb stick. Thanks again - Mark

 

[gredhead]

🙂 Mystery Solved! I tried the original software, I went back and restored a disk image of
the original software that worked, and had the sync problem. I found some references on a forum that there were some flaky things with this motherboard with two sticks of sdram in (although I think their bios was earlier than mine). I tried just one stick but had the same sync proble. So, I thought maybe my older monitor just got screwy with weird timing, and borrowed a projector to try. It had an image, but with a bar I couldn't adjust out, even setting the computer to the native resolution of the projector - 1024 x 768. So I called InFocus tech support and the guy led me right to the problem - display/advanced/displays, tv was set to primary and enabled, along with monitor. Setting tv to secondary solved the problem.

There is no info on those screens or settings in the manuals that came with the card, although with a lot of searching in help I found some info on the four unlabeled buttons. The infocus guy knew where the buttons were and that the top left bullseye was primary and the top left with two displays was secondary.

Wow - ATI could add some info on this to manuals and surely to the troublehooting
info on their web pages!!!