My Sept 2010 experience with an ATI Radeon card.

After installing the HIS 8550 Radeon in my
new system a few days ago I found out that there
is no way to change the crt refresh rate.
Radeon is locked at 60 hz. It is made for LCD's.
Period.

So, today I took the 8550 back and
got a evga nvidia gtx 470.
I can set refresh to just about anything
and won't have to buy a new monitor.

That is a very old card.

Did you install the ATI drivers 6.11 from their web site? They only have
them for up to XP 32 bit.

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Ed Light wrote:
> That is a very old card.
>
> Did you install the ATI drivers 6.11 from their web site? They only have
> them for up to XP 32 bit.

Thanks for catching that.
I transposed the numbers.
Meant to say HIS 5850, Turbo iCooler.
I got the latest drivers for that card
from the ATI website. Still did not work.
According to the overclocking forums there
is a work around that may work with XP:
down load two programs to build my own
*.inf files. Did not think it was worth
the effort though.

Paul wrote:
> My Sept 2010 experience with an ATI Radeon card.
>
> After installing the HIS 8550 Radeon in my
> new system a few days ago I found out that there
> is no way to change the crt refresh rate.
> Radeon is locked at 60 hz. It is made for LCD's.
> Period.
>
> So, today I took the 8550 back and
> got a evga nvidia gtx 470.
> I can set refresh to just about anything
> and won't have to buy a new monitor.

Oops...
I transposed the numbers.
Meant to say HIS 5850, Turbo iCooler.
I got the latest drivers for that gpu
from the ATI website. Still did not work.
According to the overclocking forums there
is a work around that may work with XP:
down load two programs to build my own
*.inf files. Did not think it was worth
the effort though.

> I got the latest drivers for that gpu
> from the ATI website. Still did not work.
> According to the overclocking forums there
> is a work around that may work with XP:

I have found that for XP the drivers after 10.4 are no good. I can't
adjust any AVIVO Video anything. So possibly other things are wrong.

At least my 4670 does connect with the new 10.1 Flash Player in Win 7
(not XP) and lets me enhance it a whole lot.

I tried a geforce GT 240 and couldn't get it to connect with Flash in
XP, nor in Win 7.

The Win 7 ATI drivers have some anomalies with the AVIVO settings,
though. But I work around those.
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On 9/11/2010 9:32 PM, Ed Light wrote:

> The Win 7 ATI drivers have some anomalies with the AVIVO settings,
> though. But I work around those.

I might add that in the ATI drivers I can create profiles for AVIVO
settings that I can select from the tray icon.

When I was trying the geforce with the latest drivers, it wouldn't save
my Video settings in a profile when I selected "Overlay". I couldn't
save a profile while in the Video settings. And forget about choosing a
profile from the tray icon -- though the old drivers had that.

I really think that the control panel teams of ATI and nvidia do not use
them at home. They are so sloppy.
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On 12-Sep-10 08:12, Paul wrote:
> Ed Light wrote:
>> That is a very old card.
>>
>> Did you install the ATI drivers 6.11 from their web site? They only
>> have them for up to XP 32 bit.
>
> Thanks for catching that.
> I transposed the numbers.
> Meant to say HIS 5850, Turbo iCooler.
> I got the latest drivers for that card
> from the ATI website. Still did not work.
> According to the overclocking forums there
> is a work around that may work with XP:
> down load two programs to build my own
> *.inf files. Did not think it was worth
> the effort though.

Is it an AGP card? Check out "Catalyst AGP Hotfix"

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> Paul wrote:
>> My Sept 2010 experience with an ATI Radeon card.
>>
>> After installing the HIS 8550 Radeon in my
>> new system a few days ago I found out that there
>> is no way to change the crt refresh rate.
>> Radeon is locked at 60 hz. It is made for LCD's.
>> Period.
>>
>> So, today I took the 8550 back and
>> got a evga nvidia gtx 470.
>> I can set refresh to just about anything
>> and won't have to buy a new monitor.
>
> Oops...
> I transposed the numbers.
> Meant to say HIS 5850, Turbo iCooler.
> I got the latest drivers for that gpu
> from the ATI website. Still did not work.
> According to the overclocking forums there
> is a work around that may work with XP:
> down load two programs to build my own
> *.inf files. Did not think it was worth
> the effort though.

What video did you use before the 5850? And are the drivers for the old
video still installed? Have you installed your chipset drivers? I know
none of this makes a difference now because you don't even have the card
anymore, but I'm sure there are many people out there who are successfully
using the 5850 with a CRT, as I was until my newest LCD monitor. Your
subject line is ridiculous.

I'm wondering if installing/not installing the monitor driver from the
monitor manufacturer could make a difference?

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Ed Light wrote:
> I'm wondering if installing/not installing the monitor driver from the
> monitor manufacturer could make a difference?
>
Nothing worked. I returned it for a nvidia.
My son has the same problem with his computer.
New ATI is made for LCD screens.