ATI Radeon undocumented bug- Can't use Radeon with with CRT's.

[Paul]

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.

 

[Ed Light]

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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[Paul]

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]

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.

 

[Ed Light]

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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[Ed Light]

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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[Man-wai Chang]

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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[KCB]

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.

 

[Ed Light]

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

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[Paul]

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.

 

[James]

Nothing worked.  I returned it for a nvidia.
My son has the same problem with his computer.
New ATI is made for LCD screens.

I was using a 4850 with the latest drivers up until last fall with a
21 inch CRT. I never had a problem with switching frequencies. I had
a dual boot computer with XP and Vista, no problems with either
driver.

James