Ok, new mobo with new video card. The card is a ATI Radeon7000 which is good enough for what I use the PC for. Anyway, I follow all the instruction by deleting all previous video drivers befor i stzlling the new card and drivers. When XP boots I can see every thing fine but as soon as I get to the select user screen it either freezes at a very high resolution or just dissplays a messed up high rez image. The odd thing is that it works in windows safe mode at 640x480 rez with 16bit colour. What's going wrong? Are the drivers fucked? The PC knowss thaat the card is there since it's listed in the display hardware list. Please help!!!! This is driving me nuts having to use the Wii for the net.
If you have access to some old PCI videocard, you could use that one as primairy, install the new card with the lastest drivers and configure it and remove the PCI when done.
wish i did have. i don't understand why it works in safe mode though. I'm going to rip it out and start from scratch.
If it works in safe mode, it implies a driver issue. I'd suggest manually removing drivers. Remove using the uninstaller (if it works in safe mode), then using Search to find all the driver references and deleting them. Also, right click My Comp, choose Properties, Hardware, Device Manager, and then Display Adapters. You should see a video card. Double click, go to Driver and uninstall driver. Finally, right click the desktop, choose the res as 640x480 at 16 colours and reboot. Hopefully you should be in a (very ugly) working XP. Get driver cleaner, use it in safe mode, go back to XP and install new drivers.
Or save all your important docs to a secondary storage and reformat with a 'Clean Install' of Windows XP.
the 7000 is a fairly old card. It may be older then XP? If you are using the driver CD that came with the card that be a issue. If you can get the newest drivers for that card off the net and put them on a CD-R or something you would be set, at least I think so.
Thanks for the help guys. Well I tried the VGA mode after formating the drive and starting from scratch. Worked this time in VGA mode and normal mode however ran like shit blacking out all the time as if the PC's CPU was doing all the calculations and not the Vid card. So I downloaded the latest drivers for XP from the net even though the drivers that came with it say they were for XP. Needless to say the new downloaded drivers worked better. But then I found my net slowing down like hell plus I can't change the screen resolution because the PC will reset. So I reinstalled my antivirus software only to have it tell me I have 168 viruses and it still hasn't finished scanning the PC after 5 hours !! So either this motherboard I bought was filled with viruses or I got them all after surfing (or trying to) the net for 1 or 2 hours without any virus software installed. So, anyway, by the time I get home the virus scan should be over. Things should be running better by then. Yakumo
Firewall is more important than AV. Hell, I dont even have an anti-virus, just a router which has a firewall. Don't go online until you've enabled the Windows Firewall.
How did you uninstall it? If you went into system folders or device manager andsimply deleted files or uinstalled it from the device manager than you did it wrong. What was the previous video card you had before the radeon? If it was an ATI then you should've gone to Control Panel > Add Remove Programs and then click on ATI Software uninstall. It would remove everything you needed automatically. You can also do a repair install of the OS as a last resort.
I removed it by the use of the control pannel. I know you can't just delete files to remove a program. My C drive was in a right sate with alsorts of crap on it that couldn't be removed for one reason or another thanks to some so called PC expert a few years ago. It's all working now. One of the main problems however turned out that the video card needed SP2 and DirectX (latest) to be installed for the resolutions to work. The drives that came with it were also bloody wrong ! F*ing Japanese company that reboxed the card for sale in Japan put in the wrong drivers for a different ATI card. Once I had finally installed SP2, Direct X 10 and downloaded drivers from the offical ATI site it was working like a dream. I now run my PC with 32 bit colour at a nice 12080 x 1024 resoltion through DVI with the Dreamcast running through the D-Sub Yakumo
oh yes you do. Many games through the VGA box look amazing. Get the official one though because some of those 3rd party ones give out an awful image. Yakumo
