Windows XP Won't Install Correctly/Radeon

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I have an AMD 1800+XP system running 256 MB DDRAM (333) on an ASUS A7V333
motherboard.

I'm currently running win 2k and wanted to go to XP.

I installed XP from scratch (as opposed to going through the upgrade
process). Installation went fine/smooth untill the very end (last reboot).

I get the Admin login page, but the display is garbbled! The screen is
sqeezed in the top left portion of the monitor and contains a lot of
horizontal black lines.

I'm suspecting it's my video card (AGP Sapphaire Radeon 64MB).

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Khaled said:
I have an AMD 1800+XP system running 256 MB DDRAM (333) on an ASUS
A7V333 motherboard.

I'm currently running win 2k and wanted to go to XP.

I installed XP from scratch (as opposed to going through the upgrade
process). Installation went fine/smooth untill the very end (last
reboot).

I get the Admin login page, but the display is garbbled! The screen
is sqeezed in the top left portion of the monitor and contains a lot
of horizontal black lines.

I'm suspecting it's my video card (AGP Sapphaire Radeon 64MB).

Any suggestions?
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Sounds like the refresh rate is set higher than your monitor supports.
(although I'd have thought that it'd default to 60Hz) try booting in safe
mode and checking that the refresh rate is set to 60.
 
Morgan said:
Sounds like the refresh rate is set higher than your monitor supports.
(although I'd have thought that it'd default to 60Hz) try booting in
safe mode and checking that the refresh rate is set to 60.
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Also set the resolution quite low for the moment.
 
Khaled Sultan said:
I have an AMD 1800+XP system running 256 MB DDRAM (333) on an ASUS A7V333
motherboard.

I'm currently running win 2k and wanted to go to XP.

I installed XP from scratch (as opposed to going through the upgrade
process). Installation went fine/smooth untill the very end (last reboot).

I get the Admin login page, but the display is garbbled! The screen is
sqeezed in the top left portion of the monitor and contains a lot of
horizontal black lines.

I'm suspecting it's my video card (AGP Sapphaire Radeon 64MB).

Any suggestions?

Thanks
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Is that an LCD monitor, Khaled? As I understand it, LCDs are made to run
preferentially at a set resolution, and one of the ways an LCD will display
other resolutions is by reducing/ increasing them to their size proportional
to its native resolution. If you've installed your OS, but not yet
installed your videocard drivers (and don't forget the chipset drivers and
DirectX first!), your card will default to 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 until you
install the card drivers and change the resolution to your monitor's native
one.

As to what you can do about it - no idea. Possibly use an analog monitor
until you've installed the videocard drivers, or it may be possible to force
the LCD monitor to display the resolution full-screen - although that still
may not be clear. It may also make a difference whether you use the analog
or DVI output of the card, although I don't know what. Never used an LCD.
Hopefully, someone else here who has used one may be able to help.

HTH patrickp
 
Is that an LCD monitor, Khaled? As I understand it, LCDs are made to run
preferentially at a set resolution, and one of the ways an LCD will display
other resolutions is by reducing/ increasing them to their size proportional
to its native resolution. If you've installed your OS, but not yet
installed your videocard drivers (and don't forget the chipset drivers and
DirectX first!), your card will default to 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 until you
install the card drivers and change the resolution to your monitor's native
one.
Click to expand...

That shouldn't (but could) make everything go to the top left corner, it's
more likely to be centered on an LCD, or scaled to fit the LCD's native
resolution.

In any case, try installing Windows with a Standard VGA Adapter driver, get
everything else working, then start trying video drivers, preferrably ones
from the Sapphire site before ATI-direct ones.

I doubt anything has happened to the video card just from changing operating
systems, unless you were poking around in the machine before the XP install
and static-shocked it.

Another thing to look at (and I know I sound like a broken record, but it
can't be stressed more highly) is whether your power supply is getting a
little long in the tooth. I just went from a 300W to a 450+W power supply
(anong with several other upgrades) and most of the annoying little wierd
problems I was experiencing before, with the 3 year old 300W unit,
disappeared.

DD
 
Just give us a more detailed situation. Have you installed catalyst drivers,
which ones? DirectX? Chipset VIA or NForcexx?
 
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