Various Topics on Videocard ATI

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:36:46 +0100, Craig Coope <coope1999@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:20:46 +0100, "Mark West"
> <mark.west@freenet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:22:14 +0100, Dagger <dirkd@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I made a mistake.
>>> The P4C800 Deluxe does not have on board VGA
>>> I should have said the new Sapphire HD3850 is running in the VGA mode
>>> with
>>> no drivers installed
>>> what should i do now?
>>>
>>> "Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> message
>>> news:48aabc4b@127.0.0.1...
>>>> Dagger wrote:
>>>>> Yes, Have on board VGA (that's what's running this now)
>>>>> Old card was ATI X1650
>>>>
>>>> 1. Unplug the new as well as the old video card
>>>> 2. Reboot
>>>> 3. IN the BIOS, set the primary display card to on-board VGA
>>>> 4. Save and boot into Window$ once
>>>> 5. do NOT install driver
>>>> 6. shutdown
>>>> 7. plug in the new VGA card
>>>> 8. IN the BIOS, set the primary display card to PCIe or AGP...
>>>> whichever is appropriate
>>>> 9. boot into Window$
>>>> 10. install driver this time...
>>>>
>>>> --
>>
>> Had exactly the same problem, the 8.1s supplied with the card worked,
>> but
>> no others - not even the hotfix ones from Sapphires site.
>>
>> I'm sticking with the supplied ones for the time being.
>>
>> Mark
>
> I can confirm I had the same problem
>
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> The Zero ST

It's a shame that such a nice/fast AGP card (compared to the X850XT)
causes so many problems...

GoW looks fantastic on it, and it runs cool too. Has anyone managed force
Vista to disable the vsync on it?

Mark

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Bob Knowlden wrote:
> I haven't personally dealt with the problem, but I think that the newer
> Catalyst versions may have trouble with some AGP cards on some
> motherboards. It may be worth trying a "hotfix" version (32 MB):

VIA chipset...

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> The P4C800 Deluxe does not have on board VGA
> I should have said the new Sapphire HD3850 is running in the VGA mode with
> no drivers installed
> what should i do now?

Go to Device Manager, right c**** the display/vga card, Un-install. Then
reboot and install driver again.

Are you absolutely sure that you have removed all traces of the old driver?

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> The P4C800 Deluxe does not have on board VGA

You didn't forget to install Intel's chipset driver, did you?

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To all that offered suggestions
I finally got everything running very well thanks to your combined ideas
Here is what did it:
Had to uninstall everything related to the old ATI drivers and all the
registry entries
Did this in safe mode using the cat unistaller and drive cleaner pro.
Did each one twice with a reboot between each
Did file search and registry search for anything ATI
Reboot
Then I installed the drivers from the included CD
Rebooted and checked everything, worked as advertised
updtaed drivers via website to 8.7
everything runs very well
Thanks again all