Baffled installing RADEON 7000

[Dick Wisan]

I've had and liked a number of ATI boards, but now I'm trying to
install a Radeon 7000, and I'm stumped. I'm running Win98 on a
Supermicro P4SBA+ P4 1.8G with 512 Mb, plenty of disk space, SCSI
CD's, and an ADI MicroScan 5EP monitor. (Further specs on request)

This board's immediate predecessor was an Xpert 128 PCI, and the
agp slot is new to me. I got a file from ATI caled infinst_emu.exe,
which appears to have activated the slot, I removed the old drivers,
and ran the new ATI disk. It reports failure.

Repeated efforts some from functioning Win98 and some from the safe
mode, using various tactics, either fail altogether or succeed
incompletely. When it fails altogether, I either get nothing when
I try to call WIN, or I get various meaningless patterns. When it
partly succeeds, I can get a well-behaved screen, on which I can set
the various pixel densities and color depths, but none of the ATI
utilities (Hydravision, multimedia, etc) will load. They complain
either that ATISSERV.DLL or SuRegCreateKey have failed (no
explanation), or simply report that they can't be mounted because
no ATI driver is running. (???)

I find I can't get the System Properties Device Manager to show one
ADI Microscan 5EP monitor and one RADEON 7000 Display Adapter. It
sometimes insists on substituting or adding a second "standard" display
adapter and it always includes a "Default" monitor alone or inaddition
to a proper ADI MicroScan 5EP If I either "update" the driver to ADI
Microscan 5EP, it then finds and installs another "default" monitor.
If I remove the "default" monitor, it finds and installs another. I
can delete the ADI monitor and run with the "default". I presume that
if I could get the ADI monitor and the RADEON display adapter running
alone, the ATI utilities would find an ATI driver running and install
properly.

So far, I've been working in a sort of Thorndike-Box fashion, rebooting
and rebooting, trying different approaches until something half-clicks,
and the thing is running with a limp, as it is now.

All recipies, suggestions, and pointers will be appreciated.

 

[Kent_Diego]

Try installing the motherboard AGP chipset drivers. Check the forums at:
http://rage3d.com for more help.

-Kent

 

[JAD]

set primary video to AGP in CMOS?

 

[Dick Wisan]

set primary video to AGP in CMOS?

Thanks. In the course of my muddling around, I thought to look
in CMOS and found that.

 

[Handsome]

Is that the same as BIOS ?

Thx

set primary video to AGP in CMOS?

 

[John Ward]

Hi Rebel,

Yes, same thing.

Regards
Sunburned John

 

[Kopfjaeger]

Try this web site http://www.rage3d.com/ lots of good info/forum on ATI
stuff. I don't know about the Radeon 7000 but, I do know that my 9700 Pro
requires a specific voltage1.5v (I think) for the AGP slot.

Kopfjaeger