RADEON 8500 INSTALLATION PROBLEMS!!! NEED HELP BEFORE I CAN MAYBE RETURN THE CARD

[mmx]

I bought a refurbish NEWEGG radeon 8500 64mb ati card. It came retails packaginf with box, everything like new. expect $99 price.

I have a iwill kk266 with an athlon XP 2000, with 768mb ram pc-133

I had an ati all in wonder radewon in it, worked great, except 3d is slow.

Now i bought the card, and went to install it, but once i inserted the card, and boot the computer, the image is all distorted from the bios - its non readable allthe screen.

I resetted the bios, downloaded last via drivers, latest BIOS, but nothing.

I'm gonna contact ATI maybe, but need to know if someone experienced this already? and maybe they know how to fix it.

 

[mmx]

i was reading x-faqtor.com, when i get home, I'm gonna bump the voltage. even maybe change P/S since i have 300watts, may not be enough for my setup.

 

[imported_zenwhen]

If the display is messed up in BIOS, then your card is a dud man. Send that puppy back.... quick.

 

[Danman]

Yes return it asap. I don't think theres anything you can do and newegg will take it back for a refund.

 

[Techronious]

Originally posted by: xzenwhenx
If the display is messed up in BIOS, then your card is a dud man. Send that puppy back.... quick.

 

[spanky]

try messing around reseating the card in the agp slot. i just bought gf3 cheap from fs/ft that had to be reseated to work properly.

 

[tuan121]

Yea return it and just get the Radeon 8500LE BULK. its clocked at 250/275 and has 3.3 ns ram. U can easily overclock it to 290/290.

 

[BarMan]

I'm with everyone else, when you get a screwed bios like that it means the things clocked to high for the voltage really... (I've done it with my 8500DV).

Personally I'd send it right back to newegg or someone though! You want to be able to OC something yourself and not have it screwy from the beginning.

 

[nemo160]

definitely try reseating the card a couple times though
i;ve had the back of cards pull up when i put the screw in the front and cause all sorts of havoc
try taking it out and reseating it but don't screw it into the case at first