radeon 8500dv went bad??

[brentman]

I am having serious issues with my radeon 8500dv.

When I hook it up via the dvi->vga adapter I get an almost unintelligible screen. It takes the typical post display and garbles it. I am leaning toward it being a bad card as I deem this unacceptable. It worked hit or miss out of the box, I had it on my HDTV via the component adapter and that was pretty decent. I attempted a fresh install of WinXP and I can only get through the setup because I remember the buttons I need to press. Then it locks up during install or when I install the Catalyst 3.1 drivers. (Several OS install attempts.)

Anywho.. anyone else experienced similar problems w/ this card.


brentman

 

[Duvie]

Have you taken it to a different pc??? It does this right out of the gate at the post up screen??? I wonder if you can get a dvi-vga adapter (another one) and test it....Also wonder if the bios firmware can be flashed....

Whatever you do try to deal with ATI techs and see if they know of an issue or a batch of cards with this issue....


Do you have access to a DVI to test it without the adapter???

 

[CraigRT]

I read into the 2nd line and first thing I thought was "try in another computer".

You need to do that, if you haven't done so. 🙂

 

[Duvie]

checkout www.rage3d.com and their forums on the All in wonder cards and see if there are similar issues happening....

 

[brentman]

Update:

Tried the card in an Abit KT7A board and I had a good display most of the time, but would often garble the screen and make it unreadable. Intermittent problems suck. 🙁

 

[Duvie]

call atitech andif they can't figure it our rather quickly rma the damn thing...you shouldn't have to tinker with something so much that should work out of the box...