Radeon 9500 Pro problem!

[peonyu]

Hi I just got my card in today, its the Sapphire model. Ok, heres the problem-I take out my old Gfmx, put in the Radeon and then boot [98SE] in Safe mode-uninstall nvidia stuff then reboot...First thing I notice upon rebboting is an incredibly garbled screen, if i move my cursor, a trail of garbage is left after it. Ok so I reboot again-Same problem. Reboot. This time I left my mouse alone and just used tab to navigate the found new hardware screen, it worked well considering before i couldnt make out any of the words. Now I finally got to installing the drivers-Everything appeared to be going great-they installed and i was prompted to reboot. I clicked yes. Next 98 pops up with its loading screen, all is looking well- Then out of the blue, the Monitor blinks off-the system spuds like its still running but my video just got cut! WTF. If I reset and do the safe mode-it works perfect with no bad text either. If I do a normal boot with no drivers-it works but is garbled-if i install ATI drivers I get no Picture. WTH can be causing this?

I have bios set to 128mb agp ram-I did notice that after putting the card in that for some odd reason my agp transfer setter is no longer seen in the bios, I cant even see if its at 1x or 8x. Also this board has no onboard video just so you know. Anyone have ANY advice?? Plz id appreciate it!

edit-forgot my specs

mobo-ak77-8xn
2800+ XP
512mb ddr 166
40gb hd
good monitor
400W Psu
1 nic
onboard sound

 

[peonyu]

Ok, i have a quick question here

I just reinstalled windows, and all is going good so far, im right about to install the video drivers, but out of caution i checked the device manger and saw in the display area that there is two display devices in it!? im betting that thats not normal, but i have to make a choice on what to do here and i want it to be the right one


-ok, device 1 ; is called pci display adapter [fyi-i have no onboard video and no pci cards in]-this one has no irq's assighned, but has memory addresses assighned to it
-device 2 ; standard vga display adapter, has irq 10 assighned to it and memory addresses.

Im thinking that i should stick with device 2 since it has an irq, good idea right? And that i should delete device 1, or disable it. Which would be better-to delete it or disable it?

Give me your thoughts on this!

 

[peonyu]

I got it

 

[selfbuilt]

I take it you got it working well? Good!

You should now see two devices listed under display adapters:
RADEON 9500/9700 SERIES
RADEON 9500/9700 SERIES - Secondary

Don't worry, this is how it should be, since you can run two montiors off the card (notice both the analog VGA and DVI outputs).

Enjoy!