video card issues

Shane wrote:

Hi all, hopefully posting this to several groups isn't a problem. My parents
have an old dell from maybe 6 years ago, and their display recently started
getting vertical lines through it, so I assumed that the video card had
gone. I got a new one and threw it in (a better card than the one they had,
went from 16MB to 32), and I cannot get the OS to recognize it. It's an agp
card in an agp slot.

When I downloaded the driver for the card (ATI 128 Rage pro), I install them
no problem, but then it gives me an error wherein it states the "driver does
not support the display adapter." Irritating for sure. I then tried a bunch
of other video cards of varying types and MB, and it's always the same;
Windows refuses outright to see that there is a card there, so it only
allows me 16 colors and 600x480 screen res. I have NO idea why this is, and
any help or insight here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Shane:

IIRC the ATI drivers more or less insist on having a "clean slate" on
which to work. If there is an entry for them in "Add Remove Programs"
use it to remove them ( and any other video drivers that show up there)
and and revert to STD VGA. _Then_ install the drivers. There may be an
"uninstall" utility on ATI's web sight as well or at least more detailed
instructions. Might also be worth a look in the BIOS to see if there is
a setting to RESET the Plug & Play information and be sure the setting
for OS type is set to P&P aware.

Good Luck

John

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I understand. However, I got burned once when putting an Nvidia GeForce card
into my system even after properly and fully removing the 3dfx card. Next, I
had to use GoBack by Norton (then Roxio) to restore my settings. Third, I
tried to install an ATI card and had no problems. The fact that ATI is a
Canadian company is also good since my brother-in-law is Canadian and I think
Canadians are cool people. Finally, I think XBOX 2 may use an ATI card
instead of Nvidia graphics card and so if Microsoft supports ATI then the
tables may really be turned to ATI's favor since Microsoft does have a great
deal of power in the computer industry.

"Galen" wrote:

In ,
Dan had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I really am happy with my ATI Radeon 9200 card with 8x AGP and 128
mbs of video ram. smile

It's not that I have anything against ATI, indeed they're fine. I've just
learned to like the GeForce series. I am not really a gamer either though.
Well, I do play games, but they're not graphics intensive and I don't do FPS
genre games. At best you'll find me spending hours amid an RPG or strategy
game. I think the last ATI that I bought was a Rage Pro 3 (or something
along those lines in the name) and it was actually quite decent. Heck, at
that time, it was pretty much the best on the market.

I guess, to me, it's the familiarity now that keeps me using GeForce cards.
Kind of like always putting the same types of tires on my car or always
buying the same brand of shoe.

Galen
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