Rosewill 9600 video card problems

[gregn30]

After my Geforce 2 GTS died, I ordered the Rosewill 9600 video card from Newegg. The first one I got died within 24 hours after installing it and I RMA'd it back. The second one I received appears to be working. However, when I try to run almost any game, the screen flickers constantly or is completely black. I've tried this with several games including new ones (Armies of Exigo) as well as old ones (Heroes of Might and Magic 4) and am having similar problems.

My system is:
AMD 1.33 gig
Epox EP-8K7A+ motherboard
512MB Ram
Windows XP Corporate Pro
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

I've reformmated and did a fresh install, have updated to the latest drivers and downloaded the latest version of Direct X. I've also tested my system with an old video card (Diamond Viper I think) from a system I had about 7 years ago and it ran the older games fine. Anyone have any ideas on what the problem is?

Thanks

 

[episodic]

I have this exact card. I have not had a moments trouble. Bad card and luck imho. . .

 

[LTC8K6]

What happens when you run the DXDIAG display tests?

 

[Navid]

How did you remove the old drivers before installing the card?
Did you use Driver Cleaner?

Edit:
I'm sorry. I should have read the entire post before saying something!
I missed the part about reformatting.

 

[gregn30]

Since I was reinstalling Windows, I zeroed out the hard drive and then reinstalled so I didn't have to remove the old drivers.

When I ran the DXDIAG display tests, the DirectDraw tests worked fine. However, the Direct3D test didn't work for Direct3D 7 and 8. Here is the info I received:

No problems found.
DirectDraw test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 32 (User verification of Direct3D rendering): HRESULT = 0x00000000 (error code)
Direct3D 8 test results: Failure at step 32 (User verification of Direct3D rendering): HRESULT = 0x00000000 (error code)
Direct3D 9 test results: All tests were successful.

For Direct3D 9, the test showed the image but it flickered a little.

 

[LTC8K6]

Was AGP texture acceleration enabled?

 

[gregn30]

AGP texture acceleration was enabled. Also, AGP speed is set to 4x and fast write is set to on in the ATI video card options.

 

[gregn30]

Well, I managed to fix the Direct X 7 problem by disabling AGP options in the bios. However, Direct X 8 is still not working and Direct X 9 is still flickering a lot and also not working correctly. I'm starting to think this is a motherboard incompatibility issue.