OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!

[ty@festf.org (Tyler P.)]

>From what I read, the latest ati drivers have been very good.  The problem
is that the 7000 series of cards suck.  I've seen some motherboards need
specific bios updates to work with them.  Also they are cheap so it would
make much more sense to replace them with a $50 card than replace a $200
operating system.  You could easily find a geforce 2mx or a ati 9000 (same
core as 8500) for 50 - 70 bucks.   However, I would flash you system bios,
turn on agp 1x mode, and boot into safe mode and uninstall the drivers that
you put on.  

-----Original Message-----
From: calimus@techography.net [mailto:calimus@techography.net]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:04 PM
To: Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: RE: OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!


Jeff,

Ok, here is the bad news.  ATI Radeon cards and WinXP do not play together
at all.  There is an Experimental driver floating out on the net somewhere,
I used it once and it worked.  Figuring that ATI would get their collective
asses in gear and fix this problem, I didn't keep a copy of the driver which
is way out of my Geek Charactor.

So basicly, unless you can find the experimental driver that used to be
offered right from ATI's site, you are basicly screwed.  I would reccomend 2
things to solve your problem.

1. You want to keep the ATI card, dump Xp and use Win2k, it's that simple.
All Xp is, is Win2K with a Tonka Toy interface anyway.  Sure there are a few
neat features, but nothing that would make me switch.

2.  Dump the ATI card and go pick-up a Nvidia GeForce 4 440 Ti or better.  I
can tell you now that you won't dislike the Nvidia cards and they have a bit
better hardware support for OpenGL anyway.

If there are any other questions you have, I'd be more then happy to try and
answer them.  Oh, before I forget, rather then blow the whole drive away to
get the ATI vid card settings out, Do this, is works, boot into safe mode
and remove the card from the device manager.  This will save you some time
if you dump the card and keep XP.

William


At 03:43 PM 12/22/02 -0800, Jeff Toomasson wrote:

>I've been trying to load up the drivers for my video card (ATI Radeon 
>7500) after wiping the HD clean loading up XP Pro and it hangs during 
>restart while it's supposedly running "system testing" (according to the 
>ATI install program). The XP Pro logo comes on and the little status 
>indicator freezes on its third pass.
>
>I've tried going through ATI's tech support but not really finding 
>anything there. I haven't tried MSN yet, but that's my next stop
>
>The card came with the PC when I got it from the guy who bought my M3. 
>He's actually a tech there and this card could be a beta (could explain 
>why the device manager cannot ID it.)
>
>Another kick in the stomach is that he also gave me an AIW 32MB card but I 
>just noticed that it doesn't have the normal 16-pin interface port that 
>older cards have so I can't test it with that one...
>
>I'm running a Sony VAIO 1.3GHz P4 with 256MB RAM so there shouldn't be any 
>problems there.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks, Jeff
>
>
>
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