Radeon 9500 Issues

[Patrician]

I've got a Radeon 9500 Pro with 128mb. Before that I had a Radeon 9000 Pro with 128mb. In both cases i've been running:

WinXP Pro
Soyo KT-400 Dragon
AMD Athlon XP 1800
512 ram
500 watt p/s

My problem is that whenever i try to install the drivers for the card that i downloaded off of ATI's website my computer freezes. Even just tyring to install the control panel freezes my comp. This is getting to be somewhat of a nuisance.

Also another problem is that with my Radeion 9500 when i play videos a sort of gridy line system forms over the top, and when i play games, well thats just plain ugly cause the whole screen is pretty much wacked out, lines and junk everywere. I asked a friend and he said he thought it was either overheating, or it had been overclocked and i needed to down clock it. I bought the card used from a different friend.

Any help would be very welcome and i can run any tests and provide any additional information that you may want.

--Patrician

 

[Patrician]

So no ideas?

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

are you overclocked in any way?
what are the specs on your power supply, that 9500 needs a lot of power to run

 

[Patrician]

I personally haven't done any overclocking on it, but in the past i can't say what was done. as for the Power Supply it's an ATX-500 Watt PCM Switching Power Supply. I can't see the brand name, since it's on top and i'de have to remove the power supply to find that out.

--Patrician

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

Did you uninstall the ATI drivers before you installed the 9500?? <--- if not, we might have the answer

What I meant by specs on the power supply, I mean, brand, amps on the 12v rail, amps on the 5v rail. all of that should be on a sticker on the power supply.

 

[Mem]

Try Driver Cleaner in safe mode,also make sure you install the VIA AGP driver.


You should try and test the card in a different PC to rule it out being faulty.

 

[Patrician]

47/61A on the 5v and 28A on the 12v. as for the brand i think it's PCMCIS, or at least thats what it says on the sticker.

I'm not sure what you mean by uninstall the ATI Drivers before i put the 9500 in. Because I've never been able to install them in the first place, as i mentioned in my eariler post.

My problem is that whenever i try to install the drivers for the card that i downloaded off of ATI's website my computer freezes. Even just tyring to install the control panel freezes my comp. This is getting to be somewhat of a nuisance

As for testing the card in a different machine and all, i'm fairly sure it's the same way in other machines, but I don't have any convenient ways of finding out.

--Patrician

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

I understand you cant install new drivers, but you had to install drivers when you had the 9000 in . what is happening is that the drivers are loading the parameters for the 9000 card but its not there, so it crashes.

add/remove programs
or use drivercleaner as mentioned above

 

[Patrician]

I've got the VIA AGP drivers. and i'll try drive cleaner as soon as i get back this evening and let you know how it goes.

--Patrician

 

[Patrician]

I tried Driver Cleaner, i followed the directions: Uninstalled the drivers from device manager, restarted in safe mode, removed all the ATI files using driver cleaner 2. Then i loaded back up windows, windows happily re-installed my radeon using microsoft drivers and when i try playing video or games there is no change.

--patrician