Help Setting up a POWERED BY ATI card

[SEB]

Hi Everyone, I was sent to this newsgroup because I heard that people here
are very helpful. I have an old RADEON 7200 card that has a powered by ATI
sticker on it. On the PCB there's a white logo that says ATI RADEON GRAPHICS
on it. and the PN nuber on the pcb is 109-76800-11. The problem I have is
that I install the card in windows XP and no matter what I do it crashes.
After Calling ATI They figured out that the drivers shouldn't come from them
because it wasn't built b them. I found that the default MS drivers let the
card work for a while but I get no 3D functionality. Does anyone know how I
can find out info on getting this card to work properly ? It's been sitting
in it's static wrap for about 2 months now and I want to install it into a
pc I'm giving to a less fortunate family.

 

[Skid]

Hi Everyone, I was sent to this newsgroup because I heard that people here
are very helpful. I have an old RADEON 7200 card that has a powered by ATI
sticker on it. On the PCB there's a white logo that says ATI RADEON GRAPHICS
on it. and the PN nuber on the pcb is 109-76800-11. The problem I have is
that I install the card in windows XP and no matter what I do it crashes.
After Calling ATI They figured out that the drivers shouldn't come from them
because it wasn't built b them. I found that the default MS drivers let the
card work for a while but I get no 3D functionality. Does anyone know how I
can find out info on getting this card to work properly ? It's been sitting
in it's static wrap for about 2 months now and I want to install it into a
pc I'm giving to a less fortunate family.

But ATI does provide drivers for "powered-by" cards in the Radeon family on
their website, including the 7200. The latest Catalyst 3.10 set should work
fine, and they have older versions in their archives.

The sticker is a question mark, though. That part number doesn't fit ATI's
numbering system. If you go to www.ati.com, drivers section and click the
product identification link, it will tell you how to confirm the model
through the information in device manager or the system info applet.

 

[Strontium]

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Hi Everyone, I was sent to this newsgroup because I heard that people
here are very helpful. I have an old RADEON 7200 card that has a
powered by ATI sticker on it. On the PCB there's a white logo that
says ATI RADEON GRAPHICS on it. and the PN nuber on the pcb is
109-76800-11. The problem I have is that I install the card in
windows XP and no matter what I do it crashes. After Calling ATI They
figured out that the drivers shouldn't come from them because it
wasn't built b them. I found that the default MS drivers let the card
work for a while but I get no 3D functionality. Does anyone know how
I can find out info on getting this card to work properly ? It's been
sitting in it's static wrap for about 2 months now and I want to
install it into a pc I'm giving to a less fortunate family.

My suggestion, not it might not be popular, would be to get a new card. You
mention 3D 'functionality' as if it's something you require ( will use ).
This all comes down to 'what do you want this card to do? If you want it to
just, magically, play games...well that would depend on the age of the
games. The fact that you mention 3D 'functionality' would assert, to me,
that you are trying to do something graphical (most likely something OpenGL,
as it's famously known that the bundled XP drivers do not support OGL).
Wether or not that card can handle it, will depend on just 'what' you are
trying to do with it. Answer that question (yes, it's a question), first.
Then, get back to us on it. Seems we don't have enough info relevent to
your situation. The rest of your system specs would help, as well.

 

[SEB]

Well, I do want the 3d part to work although not really with the latest
games (no Halflife 2 or anything recent). It's going into a p3 600 but they
family will be purchasing older 3d games (think EA CLASSICS for $19 at your
local walmart). ATI's card Identification software gives it an BUILT BY part
# but the ati rep said the part # etched onto the card doesn't match
anything they have.

 

[Strontium]

ok.

Two possibilities (AFTER making sure you have updated the driver)....

one..replace that card. Or, figure out if it's your motherboard etc or the
drivers etc.... you are talking about a troubleshooting ordeal. That's a
fairly old card, BUT, depending on what you use it for a driver upgrade
'might' help. Have you tried the Catalyst drivers?

two...get the highest card that is compatible with that motherboard...8500?
not too savvy, on that point, so ask someone else (I was in the nVidia camp,
back in those days).

All, in all, it sounds to me that you are chocking on OpenGl. This happened
to me, a few years ago, before I was into gaming and had a Voodoo Banshee.
Turns out that XP's default driver did not support OpenGl. Same was true,
with my GF3Ti200. The drivers, that were provided at release of XP, were
hacked and half-assed. I would suggest getting the Catalyst 3.7's based on
the age of the system and card. Please don't bother with the latest version
as I think with that card there will be problems (someone correct me, if I'm
wrong).

Upgrade driver, as stated, then seek the other two options if necessary. If
you're playing older games, I don't see why you would need a new card
though. Your drivers seem to be the prob, atm.


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