C
Colin Wightman
Last August I bought a Radeon 9600 Pro card and it worked fine.
Last month I further upgraded my machine with a new motherboard,
memory and processor and upgraded to WinXP at the same time.
Since then I've had a lot of trouble with my display.
If I install the old drivers that came with the card then the
display is clear but the display drivers crash a lot.
If I install the latest Catalyst drivers, they don't crash but I
get display corruption consisting of yellow streaks on text when
I scroll the display, also if I move a window it leaves a trail
of yellow and blue dots behind it.
The yellow streaking does not appear instantly, if I boot the PC
up the display is clear for a minute or so then the streaks
gradually appear and get worse.
I've tried tweaking various parameters using but nothing seems
to affect it. Even turning hardware acceleration off entirely
does not get rid of the streaks.
I've tried all the Catalyst drivers from the latest one back to
3.6 and also the latest Omega driver with no luck.
My motherboard BIOS is up to date.
Does anybody here have any idea what's going on? Is there some
sort of known incompatibility with my motherboard? I've searched
on the web but found nothing that looks relevant.
The spec of my system is:
O/S: Windows XP Home SP1.
Video Card:
PowerColor 128 DDR
Radeon 9600 Pro
Driver Provider ATI Technologies Inc
Driver Date 28/02/2003
Driver Version: 6.14.1.6307
This driver came with the card. It gives a clear display but
crashes a lot. More modern versions of the drivers produce the
display corruption.
Motherboard: Abit AN7 nForce2 (Socket A)
Processor: AMD Athlon "Barton" XP2800+
Memory: TwinMOS 1GB (2x512MB) DDR PC3200
Disks:
Maxtor SATA 160GB (System disk)
IDE Channel 1 Master IBM 120 GB
IDE Channel 1 Slave IBM 40GB
IDE Channel 2 Master DVD Writer.
Last month I further upgraded my machine with a new motherboard,
memory and processor and upgraded to WinXP at the same time.
Since then I've had a lot of trouble with my display.
If I install the old drivers that came with the card then the
display is clear but the display drivers crash a lot.
If I install the latest Catalyst drivers, they don't crash but I
get display corruption consisting of yellow streaks on text when
I scroll the display, also if I move a window it leaves a trail
of yellow and blue dots behind it.
The yellow streaking does not appear instantly, if I boot the PC
up the display is clear for a minute or so then the streaks
gradually appear and get worse.
I've tried tweaking various parameters using but nothing seems
to affect it. Even turning hardware acceleration off entirely
does not get rid of the streaks.
I've tried all the Catalyst drivers from the latest one back to
3.6 and also the latest Omega driver with no luck.
My motherboard BIOS is up to date.
Does anybody here have any idea what's going on? Is there some
sort of known incompatibility with my motherboard? I've searched
on the web but found nothing that looks relevant.
The spec of my system is:
O/S: Windows XP Home SP1.
Video Card:
PowerColor 128 DDR
Radeon 9600 Pro
Driver Provider ATI Technologies Inc
Driver Date 28/02/2003
Driver Version: 6.14.1.6307
This driver came with the card. It gives a clear display but
crashes a lot. More modern versions of the drivers produce the
display corruption.
Motherboard: Abit AN7 nForce2 (Socket A)
Processor: AMD Athlon "Barton" XP2800+
Memory: TwinMOS 1GB (2x512MB) DDR PC3200
Disks:
Maxtor SATA 160GB (System disk)
IDE Channel 1 Master IBM 120 GB
IDE Channel 1 Slave IBM 40GB
IDE Channel 2 Master DVD Writer.