W
Wondering
I really am in need of some help.
First of all I did a stupid thing. Last Feb, that's 2003, I bought
the card for a new system I was going to build but never got around to
building until just last week.
Ok, the system is:
ASUS P4PE (not 800FSB)
Intel P4 2.4gig
1 gig of Corsair memory
2 Maxtor 120 gig HDs on the primary
CD rom drives on the secondary.
An Adaptec 2910 SCSI card
No sound card - using onboard sound
Networked with onboard NIC
Windows XP Pro SP1
Other than the 'cold boot' problem this board has it runs nice other
than that ATI video card.
I am using the original drivers that came with the board, version 4.2
I think.
I tried installing and running Jimmy Whites Qball World. It would not
run, video was all screwed up, I tried all sorts of combinations of
resolutions etc but most times all I got was a hung system and black
screen.
Next I installed Quake 3 with latest updates. It runs fine except for
issues that I find hard to describe. It's like verticle bars that look
like transparent textures, meaning I can see through them. I screwed
around with video card settings in the DirectX (version 9,x) and can
change the size of the bars, even turning them into a checker board
pattern. It happens in all the levels I have tried, the ones that came
with Q3,
Also I notice that during boot up the windows logo screen with the
loading progress bar has short black verticle lines in it. They are
about 1/2 inch apart and about 1/2 inch long. These have been there
from the start. It's a Viewsonic 19" monitor running at 1280 x 1024.
I am at a loss - I fear that the card has hardware issues and I paid
$377 for it when I bought it and I also think ATI will NOT do anything
for me no less even talkk to me about the possible issues.
Anyone got any suggestions?
BTW - I was wondering about the PS. I disconnected everything in the
system other than the two HDs just to see if it was overloaded but no
help or change. It's an ACER case with a 300 watt supply.
Thanks,
Gene
First of all I did a stupid thing. Last Feb, that's 2003, I bought
the card for a new system I was going to build but never got around to
building until just last week.
Ok, the system is:
ASUS P4PE (not 800FSB)
Intel P4 2.4gig
1 gig of Corsair memory
2 Maxtor 120 gig HDs on the primary
CD rom drives on the secondary.
An Adaptec 2910 SCSI card
No sound card - using onboard sound
Networked with onboard NIC
Windows XP Pro SP1
Other than the 'cold boot' problem this board has it runs nice other
than that ATI video card.
I am using the original drivers that came with the board, version 4.2
I think.
I tried installing and running Jimmy Whites Qball World. It would not
run, video was all screwed up, I tried all sorts of combinations of
resolutions etc but most times all I got was a hung system and black
screen.
Next I installed Quake 3 with latest updates. It runs fine except for
issues that I find hard to describe. It's like verticle bars that look
like transparent textures, meaning I can see through them. I screwed
around with video card settings in the DirectX (version 9,x) and can
change the size of the bars, even turning them into a checker board
pattern. It happens in all the levels I have tried, the ones that came
with Q3,
Also I notice that during boot up the windows logo screen with the
loading progress bar has short black verticle lines in it. They are
about 1/2 inch apart and about 1/2 inch long. These have been there
from the start. It's a Viewsonic 19" monitor running at 1280 x 1024.
I am at a loss - I fear that the card has hardware issues and I paid
$377 for it when I bought it and I also think ATI will NOT do anything
for me no less even talkk to me about the possible issues.
Anyone got any suggestions?
BTW - I was wondering about the PS. I disconnected everything in the
system other than the two HDs just to see if it was overloaded but no
help or change. It's an ACER case with a 300 watt supply.
Thanks,
Gene