Ok, I am running into a problem here folks. I bought a ATI Radeon 9200 PCI Bus card for my comp as the guy at staples told me it was one that should work in most older comps. I have a emachines W2646, Intel Celeron 2.6g, onboard Intel 82845 Graphics controller. The ATI manual told me to disable the old video drivers before installing the vid card, so I did that. Then I installed the card, rebooted the system and it cant find the card. Also, my screen was xtremely crappy, as I had disabled the vid drivers. Am at a real loss as to how to tell the machine the new vid card is there. Any suggestion?
Hazumil 0 Newbie Poster
Cup of Squirrel 0 Junior Poster
Your card should have came with a CD. Put it in and install the drivers for your new card.
Coconut Monkey 40 Inside your PC Team Colleague
I would also recommend you download the latest drivers from ATI's website. Make sure you uninstall the previous drivers (if you do use the CD version) from add/remove programs in control panel.
Hazumil 0 Newbie Poster
Thanks for the info so far, but in the book it says I have to disable the onboard graphics on the motherboard. I went to emachines website, and they didnt have the jumper settings for my system (too old methinks). I'm pretty sure I have to change the jumper settings on the motherboard to disable the graphics on there, but I dunno what to change em to. Any ideas?
Coconut Monkey 40 Inside your PC Team Colleague
Have you looked in your system's BIOS (commonly accessed by pressing the del key when prompted)?
Hazumil 0 Newbie Poster
No, I haven't, I will try that now,. see what I can find out, thanks Coconut =)
webbgirls4 0 Newbie Poster
I am having a problem runnin the ati 9200 video card. Keeps conflicting with the dma setting in my multi card reader drivers.
Thong_Ispector 2 Practically a Master Poster
Actually, I am struggling with an ATI card at the moment as well
The number one problem is old drivers getting in the way.
(You dont just have to remove the old ATI drivers you must have the standard display driver installed...)
The number two problem is making sure direct X is in there when you install the ATI drivers.
BILL S 0 Junior Poster
If you follow the quick install manual as mine says, Check the BIOS, disable the video that is onboard, or other card, I find in the BIOS primary setting is already set for the PCI it appears, then boot but load the driver CD and cancel any new hardware wizard that starts up, run the disc's driver install instead, then reboot I think. The manual is not in front of me and I JUST posted a question about the Radeon 9250 card, so will see soon
BILL
DC1966 0 Newbie Poster
Ok, I am running into a problem here folks. I bought a ATI Radeon 9200 PCI Bus card for my comp as the guy at staples told me it was one that should work in most older comps. I have a emachines W2646, Intel Celeron 2.6g, onboard Intel 82845 Graphics controller. The ATI manual told me to disable the old video drivers before installing the vid card, so I did that. Then I installed the card, rebooted the system and it cant find the card. Also, my screen was xtremely crappy, as I had disabled the vid drivers. Am at a real loss as to how to tell the machine the new vid card is there. Any suggestion?
YOU HAVE TO GO INTO bios AND PUT IN THE PCI INSTEAD OF ONBOARD
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