Hehe, I haven't been on tipit in ages.

 

 

 

Anyways, I recently purchased a Gecube ATi Radeon 9250 graphics card. Its 256 mb, and PCI slot (yeah, my cheap dell doesn't support AGP). So I stuck it in there, disabled my old, integrated graphics card, and installed it. Suprise - it doesn't work.

 

The software/drivers was fine and everything, but my computer just doesn't seem to recognize it. It's there under device manager, but my screen resolution is 640 by 800 and the color is like 4 bit. gah!

 

 

 

So I'm wondering what's the problem... Faulty driver? oh, and I recently noticed that it's made for DirectX 8.1, and I have DirectX 9. Could that be the problem?

 

 

 

edit: I meant gecube >.>

I actually did the same setup a year or 2 ago with that exact card. for me, I just unpluged the card re plugged it in and when i turned on the computer it worked fine. I had the exact problem you did.

didn't work. :( I wish it was that simple

Try another slot, you occasionally get some odd slot to slot or slot to onboard resource conflicts.

 

 

 

Another dim recollection is you may need to select the "assign IRQ for VGA" option somewhere in BIOS.

 

 

 

DirectX9 runtime with DX8 card (or even DX7) = NOT A PROBLEM.

 

 

 

I'd use the last DX8 card supporting driver from ATI - http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/r ... 00-xp.html - that is the LATEST driver to support the Radeon 9250 and anything older.

 

 

 

PS. Are there any options in display properties - the reboot defaults for ATI drivers can be pretty messed up, in fact, mine defaults to a mode that the monitor blanks, unless I trap it (F8 for boot menu) and force it to use VGA mode.

Hmm, well i got it work... sort of. I had to enable the card to use my monitor, and I had to plug the monitor into the card. Resolution worked out and so did color but there's so much lag! I can't play any games either (Warcraft 3) So did I do it wrong or is the card just crap?

 

 

 

Basically what I'm saying is, a 256 mb graphics card is running slower than a 64 mb integrated one.

You can't determine the speed of the graphics card by how much memory it has.

 

 

 

Did you install the drivers correctly?

Not sure. I've installed the drivers about 6 times already, first from the CD that came with the card (I was told the drivers were outdated), then from the manufacturers site (Gecube), then from the ATI site, which was the one Doomster suggested earlier. What's the correct way to install a driver?

The correct way to install a driver is this:

 

Uninstall all previous graphics drivers (including the ati you just installed)

 

reboot

 

download the newest drivers from the ATI website

 

install

 

reboot again

Should I use Device Manager or Add/Remove Programs to uninstall drivers? Also, can I just disable my integrated graphics card, because I don't have the software, and I don't want to system restore.

Should I use Device Manager or Add/Remove Programs to uninstall drivers? Also, can I just disable my integrated graphics card, because I don't have the software, and I don't want to system restore.

 

 

 

add-remove programs

 

 

 

Yes you can disable the integrated card, uninstall the drivers for it before you install the new ones for your new graphics card.

Followed your advice, and got my graphics card working! :D

 

I ended up leaving my integrated card still installed though. It some how lets the Radeon work. :? If I disable it, everything screws up