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OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!



And your point is...?

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Z. [mailto:sciroccos@attbi.com]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 3:06 PM
To: Scirocco
Subject: Re: OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!


Well, here comes my $.02.  I'm running a geforce 2 mx400 video card with XP
Pro and haven't had any problems yet.  Also, my chipset is the SIS 645dx.

Chris Z.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler P." <ty@festf.org>
To: "List (E-mail)" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:46 PM
Subject: RE: OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!


> Who makes your chipset?  Agp iplementation relies on the graphics chip and
> the motherboard chipset.  I've never heard of an nvidia product having any
> agp troubles but maybe your chipset is made by SIS?  If you have an intel
> chipset then I don't know what the prob would be cause Nvidia + Intel is
> about as compatible as you get.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Royer [mailto:vince@performancecarstereo.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:33 PM
> To: Tyler P.; Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: RE: OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!
>
>
> I don't know about that one. I have a geforce 2 mx and the only way my
> computer will run is with hardware acceleration turned all the way off.  I
> can turn it up to play games, but as soon as I come back to windows I need
> to turn it off asap or it will start flashing on and off and having severe
> redraw errors.   Games seem to work perfectly, although slower than I'd
> expect (P4 2.0 w/ 512 mg)
>
> Anyone ever heard of a problem like that?
>
> Vince
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> > [mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Tyler P.
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:55 PM
> > To: Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > Subject: RE: OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!
> >
> >
> > >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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