my radeon9600SE hate me

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my radeon9600SE hate me

Postby bum » Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:23 pm

ok ive got a serios problem and its made more serios by the fact that i only have a few hours to fix it. ok about 45 minutes ago i bought a radeon9600SE , pluged it i and..................nothing. basicaly my monitor didnt recognise it and prety much acted like it was on pernament standbye. i opened my case again, made sure it was in proerly ( it was ) and tried it again, still, nothing. ok i took it (my whole case, with the radeon in it) to my trusty pc dealer (who usualy is trusty), he tried it on his monitor and it didnt work. then he took out the card and tried it on a different pc and it worked fine. ok then he got a 9200SE out to see if it worked on my pc and it did without any problems. but the 9600SE didnt. so basicaly the only explenation i can get from this is that the card hates me (oh and, ive got agp8x , so that isnt an issue)
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Postby Corran » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:05 pm

Did you uninstall your current graphic drivers before installing the hardware. To do so you need to go into device manager and uninstall them.
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Postby DJ_Izumi » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:10 pm

Have you tried this card in another computer? It may have been faulty since manufacturing, and you simply recived a dud.
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Postby Corran » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:10 pm

>_< Double post. Also make sure you have the lastest AGP Drivers for your motherboard by downloading the latest drivers from the maker of the motherboard's chipset. If you have the installation guide for the 9600 you will find the information you need on page one.

Page three starts off by describing how to do what I described in my first post.
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Postby Corran » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:13 pm

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Postby bum » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:25 pm

ok i tried it on another pc, worked fine, its just my pc. oh and, i uninstalled my nvidia drivers before puting the card in. i guess the only thing i can do now is make a bios update. anyone know where i can find one for a GA-7MV400M (via km400 chipset) ?
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Postby Corran » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:33 pm

Before you go off and flash your BIOS you need to try what I suggested and download the lastest graphic drivers for your motherboard chipset.

For the chipset you mentioned go here.
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=70
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Postby Corran » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:35 pm

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Postby bum » Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:11 pm

ok i just found out that i forgot to install the latest via hyperion drivers, installed it, but still came up with nothing damn it. luckily i checked the disk that came with my mobo and it has a utility that downloads and updates the bios automaticaly, which im about to do now
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Postby Corran » Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:18 pm

Hmmm.... I'm running out of ideas... Make sure in your BIOS that agp 4x or 8x is selected. If for some odd reason it is set to 2x it probally won't work according to the Radeon 9600 specs.
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Postby bum » Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:42 pm

well i just updated my bios (that @bios utility is great, it downloads the latest bios automaticaly then installes it withing windows and all i have to do is restart my pc, prety neat isnt it ?) . now all i gota do is restart. then turn of my pc and install the silicon and pray for a beter day
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Postby klinky » Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:14 am

It's obviously a hardware issue if it's not showing anything on the monitor... Maybe your AGP port is flakey.

Good luck tho :p
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Postby bum » Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:13 pm

well , problem solved and everything is ok now. ya see, taht specific card is just a demon possesed of shit and hates me for some stupid fucking reason. so i took my pc and the demonic vid card to the pc shop. the guy took out another of the exact same vid card (same same model, same brand, same everything exept their exact location in space) which was being used to run another pc, put it in mine and magicaly it worked. so now ive finaly got my shiny radeon9600 with all its directx9 shinyness. oh and, about the other (stupid possesing demon) card, he put it in the pc that he'd taken out my current card from, and majicaly it worked. yes, the damn thing worked fine on 3 seperate systems, yet fucked up on mine. and strangely enough an exact copy of that card worked fine. so yes, that card was possesed my a demon that had some grudge against me. it sounds stupid but i chalenge anyone to find a more meanigful explenation
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Postby bum » Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:04 pm

oh and, i went through all that, from rushing down the street with a bunch of $50 and $20 notes to having to carry my pc for so long that my arms nearly fell of and my hip is just about snapped, to suffering a shitload of mental stress and trauma, all for a.................................the deus ex 2 demo which needed a minimum dx8.1 card. note that i have bein waiting for this game for over a year, and geting to play the demo would have bein worth all i had sufferend, if i wasnt so sorely disapointed. not only was it short, the character models kinda bland, graphics lagy yet not that great, oh and, it has the worst, most anoying in game gui in anything ever. ok i think im gona go crawl under my pillow and cry now
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Wed Jan 14, 2004 3:42 pm

Usually, it's a northbridge driver problem.

I know that my board had a problem with my 9000Pro. It was a northbridge problem -- the Via Hyperion drivers didn't work because it was the wrong driver for my chipset (AMD761). I went to AMD's site and downloaded the all-in-one IDE/AGP driver and it worked fine.
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