Radeon 9600, 256MB (HIS Excalibur) CRASHES !!!

[Jorgen [2400/DK]]

Hi,

i recently bought an Excalibur Radeon 9600 (256 mb), but no matter which
Motherboard (Asus A7N8X-E, Asus A7v880) I try it on - it crashes (VPU
overload) the same second I install Catalyst Drivers..

Anyone had simular experinces ? Perhaps even a solution ?

Thanks
jorgen

 

[Jorgen [2400/DK]]

Ups. And I'm running winxp pro (SP2) - also tried on Win2000 SP4 - same
result. Same second I install ATI Catalyst it crashes....

 

[Julian Richards]

Ups. And I'm running winxp pro (SP2) - also tried on Win2000 SP4 - same
result. Same second I install ATI Catalyst it crashes....

Try the Omega drivers or older ATI ones.
--

Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives

 

[The Berzerker]

Ups. And I'm running winxp pro (SP2) - also tried on Win2000 SP4 - same
result. Same second I install ATI Catalyst it crashes....

Can't help on the technical side... but how about you try Omega's drivers?
www.omegadrivers.net

Although, if your card is really crashing like this, it's probably faulty.
There's no reason it wouldn't work with the ATI drivers.

 

[Sleepy]

in the mobo bios set AGP to 4x not 8x and fast-writes off

 

[Jorgen [2400/DK]]

Have tried these two settings - but still not luck !

 

[Jorgen [2400/DK]]

I've heard several suggest older ATI ones - but how many versions should I
go back ? I tried 3-4 steps back, but still no luck.

 

[Jorgen [2400/DK]]

btw. what are the Omega Drivers ???

Try the Omega drivers or older ATI ones.
--

Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives

 

[Tom]

Have tried these two settings - but still not luck !

Is it OK with the standard drivers?
Tom

 

[SteveK]

Is it OK with the standard drivers?
Tom

there seem to be general driver problems with the 9600 series
Looks to me Ati is too lazy to write optimised drivers for weaker gpus -
they prefer to sell high end cards which run great with their lousy written
drivers.

 

[Petra Grehling]

there seem to be general driver problems with the 9600 series
Looks to me Ati is too lazy to write optimised drivers for weaker gpus -
they prefer to sell high end cards which run great with their lousy written
drivers.

Running 9600 with latest driver`s on p4p800e dx. Rockstable.

 

[Jorgen [2400/DK]]

jeps. standard VGA works fine

Is it OK with the standard drivers?
Tom

 

[SteveK]

Running 9600 with latest driver`s on p4p800e dx. Rockstable.

I am talking here about AMD based system.. stability is here no issue either
but strong artifacts in 640x480 mode (only).