Motherboard recomendations for 9600?

[James R. Lunsford]

I recently purchased a Sapphire Radeon 9600 128 non-pro card. Does not work
at all with my Biostar M7VIW motherboard. I was thinking of upgrading and
upon searching the net, I see horror story after horror story about
incompatibilities w/ different motherboards. MSI, Abit, Gigabyte, ATI, etc.
Doesn't seem to be anyone who's able to just pop this card in and go. I'd
like to hear from some people who have this (or any variation of) card and
what type of motherboard+RAM they're using. I've got about 10 days to try
to get this card up and running or scrap the whole thing and send it back to
newegg and take a %15 restock fee hit.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Anthony Rondon]

I looked at your motherboards specs and don't see why your 9600 isn't
working. Maybe if you give a detailed description of the problems you are
having we can give you a hand in getting it to work. I'm running an AIW 9600
on a Biostar M7VIT.

 

[sbb78247]

I recently purchased a Sapphire Radeon 9600 128 non-pro card. Does not work
at all with my Biostar M7VIW motherboard. I was thinking of upgrading and
upon searching the net, I see horror story after horror story about
incompatibilities w/ different motherboards. MSI, Abit, Gigabyte, ATI, etc.
Doesn't seem to be anyone who's able to just pop this card in and go. I'd
like to hear from some people who have this (or any variation of) card and
what type of motherboard+RAM they're using. I've got about 10 days to try
to get this card up and running or scrap the whole thing and send it back to
newegg and take a %15 restock fee hit.

Thanks in advance.

I am running a Saphire 9600 pro in an Asus P4P800, p4/2.8-533, crappy ddr266
ram, (2) WD SATA 80s and love every minute of it. This thing runs!

What is the problem you are having? What OS are you using?

Shannon

 

[James R. Lunsford]

I'm using XP, sp1 w/512MB generic PC2100 DDR. I got a new 400w case,
installed the Biostar and the 9600 into the new case. Booted up fine, I
immed formatted the HD reinstalled XP and all of the critical updates from
the MS website, then I installed the drivers for the 9600. I got the newest
ones from the website, 4.3 I think, and installed those. Board seemed to be
detected ok, then I started to get driver errors, the screen would get
corrupted and I kept getting messages about VPC (they were hard to read) and
telling me to reboot. SO the process began. I'd reboot and the machine
would either get to the logon screen and lockup if I moved the mouse (black
screen, no activity) or it would run for a few seconds, get corrupted, and
I'd have to reboot.

I ended up formatting and reinstalling XP, now the compuer recognizes the
card as a Sapphire Atlantis 9600 but if I try to install any drivers (Omega,
from the ATI website, or the ones that came with the card) it seems to work
for a bit, even though in control panel there's big yellow ? and properties
tells me that the device is not working properly. The screen goes blank
every so oftne and then eventually freezes up, and when I reboot it tells me
that there was a device error, and tries to re-install the ATI drivers, or
if I cancel that out, it sets it up as an unknown VGA device.

I've been fooling around with this for 6 days so far, and I've been building
my own computers for close to 10 years now, and I've *never* had a problem
like this. I admit I don't know a lot about things like voltages and how
many volts a particular thing is supposed to run at, or how to overclock
things, but before this I'd considered myself pretty good at tracking down
and fixing problems.

Thanks for any and all advice

 

[Anthony Rondon]

I'm using XP, sp1 w/512MB generic PC2100 DDR. I got a new 400w case,
installed the Biostar and the 9600 into the new case. Booted up fine, I
immed formatted the HD reinstalled XP and all of the critical updates from
the MS website, then I installed the drivers for the 9600. I got the

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Did you install your AGP drivers for your chipset first? I got the same
garbled screen using the drivers on the CD, instead I installed Cat 4.3's
after my AGP drivers and Direct X 9.0.

 

[sbb78247]

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Did you install your AGP drivers for your chipset first? I got the same
garbled screen using the drivers on the CD, instead I installed Cat 4.3's
after my AGP drivers and Direct X 9.0.
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Anthony is right, the chipset drivers should be installed first. Even
though XP does include some basic drivers to get things rolling, it is not a
replacement for the driver package for your particular board. I would
remove the Cats, install the mobo drivers, and then try to reinstall the
video drivers.

HTH,

Shannon