ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

[santas little helper]

My kid gave a 9700 card and I thought I would install it in my 1200
mhz Plll. I have over 700 Mb of ram and now when I scroll down a web
page it flickers, sort of. It seems to refresh every click of the
wheel on the mouse or as I move the slider down slow it seems to
refresh as a sort of wave. Any ideas????

John

 

[Julian Richards]

My kid gave a 9700 card and I thought I would install it in my 1200
mhz Plll. I have over 700 Mb of ram and now when I scroll down a web
page it flickers, sort of. It seems to refresh every click of the
wheel on the mouse or as I move the slider down slow it seems to
refresh as a sort of wave. Any ideas????

I remember having a similar problem but I can't for the life of me
remember what it was. That's not a great deal of use to you but
perhaps making sure that you have the most up to date driver that your
card can handle may help.
--

Julian Richards

www.richardsuk.f9.co.uk
Website of "Robot Wars" middleweight "Broadsword IV"

 

[santas little helper]

Think, Think, Think, it will come to you. Thanks for the try anyway,
I'll double check on the driver but I think I just downloaded the
latest.

John

 

[JLC]

My kid gave a 9700 card and I thought I would install it in my 1200
mhz Plll. I have over 700 Mb of ram and now when I scroll down a web
page it flickers, sort of. It seems to refresh every click of the
wheel on the mouse or as I move the slider down slow it seems to
refresh as a sort of wave. Any ideas????

John

Does the screen flicker in other apps? Or is it just IE?
Try turning off "smooth scrolling" in IE. You'll find it under
Tools/Internet Options/Advanced You'll see the option to turn it off about
half way down the page.
JLC

 

[santas little helper]

JLC, did that and the problem is still there. It is in all screens,
windows explorer, firefox, opera, netscape, etc. An example of it also
is when I have the Catalyst Control center box open and move it around
the screen, it too flickers as if the memory was low or the cpu was
loaded. But everything is running fine, even ran some videos in
windows media player while I had a bunch of other programs running and
nothing changed.

I also went through all my Catalyst settings and changed all of them
and it had no effect. I am running the latest drivers from ATI. I also
read in Toms Hardware that this card ran fine in a 800mhz unit?

John

 

[santas little helper]

Wow, this is weird. I closed as many running programs as I could and
open one browser to a form page I go to. While watching the
performance in task manager, I scrolled up and down a few times. The
cpu hit the roof, 100% up from 2%. For now this tells me that this
9700 card id soon to be an ebay item.

John

 

[mark.stidham]

I have the same problem with my ATi card. Not sure what it is about the
drivers, but once they're freshly installed, the acceleration hardware
doesn't 'kick-in' right away. The problem seems to be in the fact that
AGP8X is not enabled, for some reason. In fact, any 3D application will
tell me that I have no 3D hardware. All you need to do is re-enable the
AGP speed. Here's the solution:

Right click the desktop
Click Properties
Settings / Advanced
SmartGART tab
Make sure AGP is set to 8x. If it is, set it to something else, then
set it back to 8x. It will tell you that you need to restart to test
the settings, do this.

That should fix it. At least, it does for me. Once I had a problem with
my motherboard's AGP drivers, but reinstalling them fixed it.

-Mark (who apologizes that he is away from the exact screen at the
moment so the wording might not be exactly as described.. but you'll
figure it out I'm sure. Look for the AGP settings and reset those, is
the jist of it).

 

[USR]

Make sure that the drivers for the previous video card are uninstalled
before installing the 9700. I had the same problem with upgrading a video
card to a 9250 on my father's system. Once I uninstalled the old card's
drivers and the 9250 drivers, restarted and installed the 9250 drivers
again, solved the problem.

HTH.....

 

[First of One]

1. Ensure you have the latest motherboard chipset drivers installed.
2. If you are running Win2K or XP, make sure the "ATiSmart" service is
running.
3. Reboot a couple of times.

Sometimes basic GDI acceleration doesn't kick in immediately after you
install the drivers. This seems to affect AGP cards only.

 

[santas little helper]

Did all of the above but it was no use. The cpu kept running up no
matter what. I uninstalled and put in another, works fine now. The
board is a VHT6 with a Plll Tualatin cpu, that may be the problem.

John

 

[bandit]

Did all of the above but it was no use. The cpu kept running up no
matter what. I uninstalled and put in another, works fine now. The
board is a VHT6 with a Plll Tualatin cpu, that may be the problem.

with that old of a computer maybe get rid of the latest drivers and
try something like the 5.11 drivers with the control panel instead of
the control center witch is a memory hog anyway.You didn't say what
operating system you have but if windows XP I posted the driver here
http://bandit_55.homestead.com/test.html

I will leave them on there for a couple days then take them off the
page

 

[santas little helper]

Thanks bandit, tried that also, It was the same.

John

 

[Guest]

If you have a third-party mouse driver (e.g. Logitech), try
looking for an updated version. Or uninstall it altogether
and use a standard MS mouse.