Who is having problems with their ati card? (just a show of hands)

[Shamrock]

just find it on Anandtech forums.

over 30% of ATI owners are experiencing a ghost line that scrolls up their screen. I dont know how big the line is, or what, but so far, it hasnt been fixed.

 

[Smilin]

NO problems

ATI 9700 Pro (sapphire)
KT333
Windows XP



(detailed specs in sig)

 

[rbV5]

over 30% of ATI owners are experiencing a ghost line that scrolls up their screen

I have several ATI cards and have never seen that. I must be either incredibly lucky, or that number is extremely exaggerated. ATI has sold over a million R300 cards alone, 300,000 of them have this issue? I seriously doubt it.

 

[gtd2000]

Originally posted by: MCrusty
8500DV
AMD761
YEEES YESSS YEEESSS!!

CANNOT get AGP Acceleration to work for the life of mee! AGH!

You need to install ATI Control Panel - I had this problem - do a google search for more info.

 

[highwayman]

Yes and No
Hercules 9700 Pro
E7205.

They want to RMA my card again, to work with AGP 8X

 

[joe4324]

YES

Sapphire 9500 PRO

Refresh Rate Errors, Specifically if I use any refresh rate ABOVE 60 I get weird picture blurs and waves across my screen. I've heard this isnt a extremely "rare" problem with the new radeons, I hope thats not the case.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: gtd 2000

Originally posted by: MCrusty
8500DV
AMD761
YEEES YESSS YEEESSS!!

CANNOT get AGP Acceleration to work for the life of mee! AGH!

You need to install ATI Control Panel - I had this problem - do a google search for more info.

I have spent the last week trying to get this to work. I tried EVERY SINGLE ATI Driver, including all the Control Panels. I even put different control panels with different drivers. I tried different AGP Drivers, i have reinstalled windows about 4 times. Im about to give up....very frustrating!

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: MCrusty
I have spent the last week trying to get this to work. I tried EVERY SINGLE ATI Driver, including all the Control Panels. I even put different control panels with different drivers. I tried different AGP Drivers, i have reinstalled windows about 4 times. Im about to give up....very frustrating!

Check to see if there is an updated version of chipset drivers for AMD 761. I've never used an AMD chipset myself, so I dunno how often they are updated (if at all anymore). Could be a GART driver issue. Check your BIOS to make sure you have AGP acceleration enabled and that your video is set to AGP and not PCI. Update both your driver and control panel to Cat 3.2 and then go to start->run and type in smartgart. This'll bring up ATi's Gart utility where you can see if it is enabled. If not, you can move the slider or retest to see if it will auto-enable.

Chiz

 

[bocamojo]

Back in the day (about a year ago), I would have said yes... However, ATI's Catalyst drivers rule, I'm happy to say, so no more problems. The hardware was never a problem, just the drivers, but not anymore.

No problem: ATI AIW Radeon 8500DV (64MB) - Asus P4B266-C (OS: Win XP Pro SP1)
No problem: ATI Radeon LE (32MB 4x AGP) - ECS K7S5A (Rev 1) (OS: Win XP pro SP1)
No problem: ATI AIW Radeon (32MB PCI) - Dell OptiPlex GX1 (OS: Win XP Pro SP1)

 

[VicodiN]

Just would like to add that I have never, nor would ever consider using an ATI card... Ive heard way too many compatability/performance horror stories... I realize that doesnt justify anything, but I just wanted to throw that out there

 

[gtd2000]

Originally posted by: MCrusty I have spent the last week trying to get this to work. I tried EVERY SINGLE ATI Driver, including all the Control Panels. I even put different control panels with different drivers. I tried different AGP Drivers, i have reinstalled windows about 4 times. Im about to give up....very frustrating!

That sucks - and I've been thru this problem with my K7S5A for the last coupla weeks.

Could I solve the problem? Nope not at all!!!

I put another Radeon 8500 also made by Sapphire into the K7S5A and guess what - it works perfectly.

The original Sapphire Radeon 8500 works perfectly in other motherboards - the problem I had was purely between the original Sapphire Radeon 8500 and the K7S5A. The very same Sapphire Radeon works flawlessly and installs flawlessly in other systems.

Can you try installing the card in another PC?

I'd consider RMA'ing the card if it will not install in another system without any problem.

 

[HappyNic]

Originally posted by: VicodiN
Just would like to add that I have never, nor would ever consider using an ATI card... Ive heard way too many compatability/performance horror stories... I realize that doesnt justify anything, but I just wanted to throw that out there

Isn't this a bit too much for something you NEVER TRY before? this is like one of those "my friend told me blah, blah blahh".

 

[CChaos]

No

Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro

845PE

Windows XP Pro

 

[kylebisme]

i should add myself i guess:

no

built by ati 9700pro

gigabyte 7vaxp-ultra

 

[Shamrock]

Rage3d

Rage3d, again

Rage3d a 3rd time

I have looked and looked for the Anandtech forums pages where many people had the ghosting problem, and with my 56k, I cant find it..someone had a poll as well, and that is where I got the 30% figure from. (I believe it was Rage 3d?)

 

[Yourself]

yes

ATI 9700 Pro


Asus P4G8X

 

[Killrose]

No
9500>9700 hacked
8RDA

No
7500
Soltek SL-75drv2

 

[Renton]

Yes
Sapphire Radeon 9100 128Mb
Shuttle AK12A mobo

Even after a clean win2k install games (unreal2, americas army)
are crashing at desktop or blue screen.
I'm thinking of getting a Ti4200.

 

[Tocca]

Hmm... Not happy with the way this thread is going!
I had a Radeon 8500 earlier and i had LOTS of problems. My biggest problem though, was the extremely poor support from ATI...

I'm now on my way to buy a new card and have thought about ATI since i've heard that both the drivers and the support are
much better.
But after reading this, i'm not so sure anymore... Seems to me that way to many people have problems with ATI, and above
all, ATIs support seems to be bad. Maybe it's much better than it was, but it could still be bad...

Let's hope it's not true. The cards seems to be awesome, it would be a pity if poor drivers/support would put people off.

 

[skyking]

yes
original radeon AIW
sis 730 chipset
all games( cfs2,3, quake) crash within a few seconds of startup

 

[Remedy]

But after reading this, i'm not so sure anymore... Seems to me that way to many people have problems with ATI, and above

That is more of end user produced problems. I wouldn't exactly associate it with ATi.

No problems here.

ATi Radeon 9000

Soyo KT400 Ultra

Windows2000 SP4 beta.

No problems

ATi Radeon 9000

Tyan TigerMPX 4-M

Windows2000 SP4 beta.

No problems

Radeon 9000

VIA Apollo133a Dual Pentuium3

Win2k

No problems

Radeon 9000

VIA KT133A

Windows 98 and 2K.

 

[joe4324]

It appears that ATI has quite a large problem on there hands, looking at some of those RAGE3D forums it sounds like there is a EXTREMELY high rate of people with the "wavy rolling lines" problem. Apparently caused by some weird interference with other components.

I dont want to have to be a electrical genius to trouble shoot my expensive cards problems. It looks like a fairly large flaw on ATI's behalf and unfortunatly I havent heard any offical words on the subject.

I figured waiting since the RAGE128 days I would have had a good expereince with a non-nvidia graphics card.......

this bothers me pretty bad.

 

[Shamrock]

yes, this wavy line is a problem and only reason I havent gotten an ATI card yet, the only fix it seems, is getting a HIGH priced, HIGH quality monitor. Unfortunately, some of us dont HAVE $900-$1200 to spend on a High end Sony, Viewsonic or Mitsubishi...

 

[chsh1ca]

Oh, since I just switched my motherboards:
NO, ATI TV-Wonder, ASUS A7V8X-WL+Sound

 

[AnMig]

no--9500 sapphire soft mod to 9700

no--8500 retail
l
no--9100 sapphire

no--9100 sapphire

no--9000 sapphire

no--9000 sapphire

I should buy some ati stock, I think ATI is becoming the XP for video cards (referencing to price performance ratio)