my radeon9600SE hate me

bum · Post by **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

klinky · Post by **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

bum · Post by **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

bum · Post by **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

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **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.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:40 pm

NDW and all of you he's speaking of NO VIDEO WHATSOEVER.

So it's not a driver issue, he should have basic VGA text atleast, but he doesn't even get that. He gets nothing...

I had a problem like this with my Geforce2, worked on my Abit KT7 motherboard, but not on my Asus A7A motherboard. Took out my bro's Geforce2 in his card, put it in my computer, worked fine. Put my old one in his, worked fine. So it's kinda odd. They were both cheap cards, so maybe they were flakey or something. I dunno it's odd.

So, well glad you got it fixed, but that sucks that DeusEx2 sucks so much...

Try Call of Duty...

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 5:34 pm

klinky wrote:NDW and all of you he's speaking of NO VIDEO WHATSOEVER.

I was simply going by the ATI 9600 manual I got with my XT model.

Each non-Intel chipset requires the installation of a custom Virtual GART (AGP) Driver. This driver is required by your new ATI card to function correctly with your motherboard. It is very important that the correct AGP driver be installed before installing an AGP video card in your system.

I can only imagine they say to do this before installation because you won't get even simple VGA. If the basic VGA would work then you should be able to install these drivers afterwards.

The same manual wrote:An incorrect or missing GART driver can result in AGP memory not being detected or a black screen after Windows loads.

bum · Post by **bum** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:32 pm

klinky wrote:
So, well glad you got it fixed, but that sucks that DeusEx2 sucks so much... Try Call of Duty...

no you see, thiers no alternative now, deus ex is one of the greatest games in existance. in itself its a work of pute genius. actualy i heard that just the demo was realy crap and the actual game kicked ass, which everyone expected. but still, the gui could end up killing it, my god i hate that gui