Radeon x1650pro AGP 512 (Problem:help!!)

Got a new AGP card: Radeon X1650pro AGP 512. When I boot without the drivers, its fine (but slow), so that means its not my: AGP slot or the card. Once I install the drivers. it boots up the inital windows XP screen then once Windows is about to start, it goes blank. Of course then I have to re-choose to START WINDOWS UNDER LAST CONFIG THAT WORKED. This invariably happens; the card will not render dammit!!

I took the PC apart cleaned everything and reinstalled XP from scratch with a clean clean system, so theres no left overs of the old PCI card. Yes, AGP is chosen in the BIOS. I tried both types of monitors.

I built this PC and have upgraded it a bit, here are the specs:

Motherboard: ECS P4VXASD2+
Power: 575 watt/ dual fan
CPU: P4 2.4
OS: Windows XP Home w/SP2
Monitor: ViewSonic VX924 DVI
Video Card (the problem): Radeon X1650pro AGP 512
Mem: 2x512 SDR chips

I am 100% willing to send $20 to anyone who can help me make this card work. Im not kidding; Yes, I am THAT frustrated!! I can Paypal or send it by mail.



Thanks anyone in advance!!

Have you conected the power cord that might have come with the card>

Yes, the Y-power extender is hooked to the hard drive then the card, as specified.

have you tried going into the bios and switching from agp 8x to agp 4x?

This will decrease performance but not enough to notice.

My Mobo only allows up to 4x, which I currently have it on. As well I have my AGP aperture currently at 128 but neither of these settings in all different positions and combinations have had any effect at all

This is my motherboard: AGP 4X supports 1 GB/s data rate and runs at 266MHz.

Coould i be that it wont run my 512 card unless I can slow the card down somehow in bios or with jumpers (which im pretty sure I cant)?

I have the same problem. It's ATi's poor drivers. Buy a new bios chip for your motherboard or if you don't want to do that update chipset drivers and keep sending emails to ati. Once they've got money off you, they don't care about the card working at all. It's the fact we've bought ATi but my dad bought an 8500PRO a long time ago and he had no problems.

Try putting on catalyst 8.5 and then (on the amd game website) click on other tools then install the first pack. then after both packs are installed, restart the computer then change your resolution after the monitor has installed. By the way, if you get it working, don't say that you have because it usually tempts fate in my case. just say you haven't got problems
Good Luck
Soulman

check the last post dates

Yikes. How about we check for a free BIOS flash update from the mobo manufacturer first?

I don't like flashing bios chips if things go wrong but use the drivers I showed you, My bios date is february 2002 and Im not getting problems, I updated the chipset drivers though

If it's a good mobo, it has "dual BIOS" or a flash recovery option... but yeah I've been there, this one mobo I had didn't have either of those, and it wasn't the old-style BIOS that you can remove, so I couldn't hot-flash it with Uniflash. Dead board now. Any of my other boards I could've saved using one of those methods. Y_Y

i dont think ive ever had a mobo with dual bios chips. Never tried flashing mobos or changing bios chips, though I have salvaged a bios DIP Type chip from a Pentium 100 TINY pc. I have nearly sent my mobo to mobo heaven, trying to get a faster bus speed(133MHz) on a 100 MHz locked bus speed on my Celeron. had to use the reset cmos jumper then reconfigure bios. But I think its fast enough at the minute, and from then, I always read the CPU specs before tweaking them (not overclocking). I never overclock because it kills your hardware. I wouldn't dare overclock the X1650 pro incase it overheated. By the way, does anyone know how to adjust the fan speed?
Soulman

|If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it!|

Try the new catalyst 8.7 drivers, im using 8.6 without problems so try that