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problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help
Adam wrote:
"Buffalo" wrote in message news Adam wrote: Well, it's installed and working for now. I'll have to let it run overnight to see how it goes. The thing that isn't perfect is the VGA cooler is so high that it sticks out of the case and is not compatible with the case cover (if I ever need to put it on). Also, not sure why but, on bootup, the Windows logo bitmap has a bunch of bad pixels at random places. After that, all looks fine. Any ideas? Well, the system has been running practically non-stop with the VGA cooler installed since Friday evening. And, all still looks fine with the exception of the shower of bad pixels on the Windows "logo.sys" bitmap at startup. Anyone know what's wrong? Happy to hear it's working well. Perhaps the bitmap for the Windows Logo is corrupted. You may be able to run SFC and replace it with one from your setup disk or install one of the many other logos available on the Internet. It is located: C:\Windows\Logos.sys and is around 130kb. It looks more like the "logo.sys" (not "logos.sys") bitmap. But, "logo.sys" is NOT located in C:\Windows. It is located in C:\BACKUP and C:\Windows\OPTIONS\CABS only. Also, the PCI video card did not show a light shower of bad pixels. You are correct about logo.sys and logos.sys. Perhaps you could try uninstalling your AGP video card drivers and installing the latest ones. I'm out of ideas. Hope your Radeon continues to work well otherwise. PS: Perhaps you should try uninstalling your PCI vid drivers, before installing the new AGP drivers. |
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problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help
"Buffalo" wrote in message news Adam wrote: "Buffalo" wrote in message news Adam wrote: Well, it's installed and working for now. I'll have to let it run overnight to see how it goes. The thing that isn't perfect is the VGA cooler is so high that it sticks out of the case and is not compatible with the case cover (if I ever need to put it on). Also, not sure why but, on bootup, the Windows logo bitmap has a bunch of bad pixels at random places. After that, all looks fine. Any ideas? Well, the system has been running practically non-stop with the VGA cooler installed since Friday evening. And, all still looks fine with the exception of the shower of bad pixels on the Windows "logo.sys" bitmap at startup. Anyone know what's wrong? Happy to hear it's working well. Perhaps the bitmap for the Windows Logo is corrupted. You may be able to run SFC and replace it with one from your setup disk or install one of the many other logos available on the Internet. It is located: C:\Windows\Logos.sys and is around 130kb. It looks more like the "logo.sys" (not "logos.sys") bitmap. But, "logo.sys" is NOT located in C:\Windows. It is located in C:\BACKUP and C:\Windows\OPTIONS\CABS only. Also, the PCI video card did not show a light shower of bad pixels. You are correct about logo.sys and logos.sys. Perhaps you could try uninstalling your AGP video card drivers and installing the latest ones. I'm out of ideas. Hope your Radeon continues to work well otherwise. PS: Perhaps you should try uninstalling your PCI vid drivers, before installing the new AGP drivers. Okay, I'll try playing around with the drivers. Thanks! |
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problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help
I have the same problem with my card. This is what is happening with mine,
not sure if it's the exact same as yours. If you take the 4 pin power connector off the card, see if one of the pins on the card is a little darker than the rest. And look and the power connectopr coming ffrom the power supply and see if it's got a dark spot. Mine seems to have a short or something that burns out the power lead from the power supply. If I clean off the power pins on the card, I can get it working again for a few months. I started buying power adapter cables, the 5.25 fd to 3.5 fd ones, they cost about $2 and then I don't have to worry about messing up the power supply. hope that helps. "Adam" wrote in message . net... "Steph" wrote in message news:HUuzi.87675$rX4.70649@pd7urf2no... "Adam" wrote in message t... My current setup is as follows ... Asus A7V133 [rev 1.05. (with dot)] with VIA 4in1 driver v4.43 AMD Athlon XP 1600+ AGP Slot: Video - 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro PCI Slot 1: ----- PCI Slot 2: NIC - 3Com 3C905C-TX-M PCI Slot 3: Sound - Creative Labs SB Live! 5.1 PCI Slot 4: USB Card PCI Slot 5: ----- Operating System: Windows 98 Second Edition The problem started creeping up last night ... - bad pixels appear randomly on the screen - the system freezes when I move the mouse - something was mildly burning / overheating I powered off the system overnight. Turned it back on this morning. It worked briefly. Then, the problem started up again. On one reboot, I got the following message ... "You have not connected the power extension cable to your Radeon 9800 video card Please refer to the "Getting Started Guide" for proper hardware installation !!!" After removing the video card, cleaning and reinserting, the message (above) went away. But, I noticed that the fan on the video card was not spinning. So, my guess is that the video card is overheating. Hopefully, this can be fixed somehow. Any ideas? Also, I now get the following "warning" message ... "The ATI Control Panel failed to initialize because no ATI driver is installed, or ATI driver is not working properly. The ATI Control Panel will now exit." And, the only display setting that works is 640 x 480 It will not take any other resolution. One word........HEAT That's about as concise and precise as it gets. ;o) |
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problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help
Yes, the red/power pin on the molex connector was a bit brown.
So, I used DeoxIT to clean the male connector on the video card. Then, I added a Y-cable in between the video card and the power supply. I no longer use the female connector from the power supply that has a burnt red/power pin. Not sure if the 5.25 fd to 3.5 fd power adapter cables that you refer to are similar to the Y-cable that I inserted. Do you have a link? The Y-cable works great since I don't have to yank on the power connector on the video card. Wish I used one from the beginning. " Jason San Diego" wrote in message ... I have the same problem with my card. This is what is happening with mine, not sure if it's the exact same as yours. If you take the 4 pin power connector off the card, see if one of the pins on the card is a little darker than the rest. And look and the power connectopr coming ffrom the power supply and see if it's got a dark spot. Mine seems to have a short or something that burns out the power lead from the power supply. If I clean off the power pins on the card, I can get it working again for a few months. I started buying power adapter cables, the 5.25 fd to 3.5 fd ones, they cost about $2 and then I don't have to worry about messing up the power supply. hope that helps. "Adam" wrote in message . net... "Steph" wrote in message news:HUuzi.87675$rX4.70649@pd7urf2no... "Adam" wrote in message t... My current setup is as follows ... Asus A7V133 [rev 1.05. (with dot)] with VIA 4in1 driver v4.43 AMD Athlon XP 1600+ AGP Slot: Video - 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro PCI Slot 1: ----- PCI Slot 2: NIC - 3Com 3C905C-TX-M PCI Slot 3: Sound - Creative Labs SB Live! 5.1 PCI Slot 4: USB Card PCI Slot 5: ----- Operating System: Windows 98 Second Edition The problem started creeping up last night ... - bad pixels appear randomly on the screen - the system freezes when I move the mouse - something was mildly burning / overheating I powered off the system overnight. Turned it back on this morning. It worked briefly. Then, the problem started up again. On one reboot, I got the following message ... "You have not connected the power extension cable to your Radeon 9800 video card Please refer to the "Getting Started Guide" for proper hardware installation !!!" After removing the video card, cleaning and reinserting, the message (above) went away. But, I noticed that the fan on the video card was not spinning. So, my guess is that the video card is overheating. Hopefully, this can be fixed somehow. Any ideas? Also, I now get the following "warning" message ... "The ATI Control Panel failed to initialize because no ATI driver is installed, or ATI driver is not working properly. The ATI Control Panel will now exit." And, the only display setting that works is 640 x 480 It will not take any other resolution. One word........HEAT That's about as concise and precise as it gets. ;o) |
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problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help
yeah, its about the same as a y connector, only a single connection.
http://cgi.ebay.com/5-25-To-3-5-Powe...QQcmdZViewItem "Adam" wrote in message . net... Yes, the red/power pin on the molex connector was a bit brown. So, I used DeoxIT to clean the male connector on the video card. Then, I added a Y-cable in between the video card and the power supply. I no longer use the female connector from the power supply that has a burnt red/power pin. Not sure if the 5.25 fd to 3.5 fd power adapter cables that you refer to are similar to the Y-cable that I inserted. Do you have a link? The Y-cable works great since I don't have to yank on the power connector on the video card. Wish I used one from the beginning. " Jason San Diego" wrote in message ... I have the same problem with my card. This is what is happening with mine, not sure if it's the exact same as yours. If you take the 4 pin power connector off the card, see if one of the pins on the card is a little darker than the rest. And look and the power connectopr coming ffrom the power supply and see if it's got a dark spot. Mine seems to have a short or something that burns out the power lead from the power supply. If I clean off the power pins on the card, I can get it working again for a few months. I started buying power adapter cables, the 5.25 fd to 3.5 fd ones, they cost about $2 and then I don't have to worry about messing up the power supply. hope that helps. "Adam" wrote in message . net... "Steph" wrote in message news:HUuzi.87675$rX4.70649@pd7urf2no... "Adam" wrote in message t... My current setup is as follows ... Asus A7V133 [rev 1.05. (with dot)] with VIA 4in1 driver v4.43 AMD Athlon XP 1600+ AGP Slot: Video - 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro PCI Slot 1: ----- PCI Slot 2: NIC - 3Com 3C905C-TX-M PCI Slot 3: Sound - Creative Labs SB Live! 5.1 PCI Slot 4: USB Card PCI Slot 5: ----- Operating System: Windows 98 Second Edition The problem started creeping up last night ... - bad pixels appear randomly on the screen - the system freezes when I move the mouse - something was mildly burning / overheating I powered off the system overnight. Turned it back on this morning. It worked briefly. Then, the problem started up again. On one reboot, I got the following message ... "You have not connected the power extension cable to your Radeon 9800 video card Please refer to the "Getting Started Guide" for proper hardware installation !!!" After removing the video card, cleaning and reinserting, the message (above) went away. But, I noticed that the fan on the video card was not spinning. So, my guess is that the video card is overheating. Hopefully, this can be fixed somehow. Any ideas? Also, I now get the following "warning" message ... "The ATI Control Panel failed to initialize because no ATI driver is installed, or ATI driver is not working properly. The ATI Control Panel will now exit." And, the only display setting that works is 640 x 480 It will not take any other resolution. One word........HEAT That's about as concise and precise as it gets. ;o) |
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problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help
" Jason San Diego" wrote in message ... yeah, its about the same as a y connector, only a single connection. snip LOL, same as a y connector...only not... I'd call that an adapter. Y connectors resemble a "Y", hence their name. |
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problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help
"Adam" wrote in message t... "Buffalo" wrote in message news Adam wrote: Well, it's installed and working for now. I'll have to let it run overnight to see how it goes. The thing that isn't perfect is the VGA cooler is so high that it sticks out of the case and is not compatible with the case cover (if I ever need to put it on). Also, not sure why but, on bootup, the Windows logo bitmap has a bunch of bad pixels at random places. After that, all looks fine. Any ideas? Well, the system has been running practically non-stop with the VGA cooler installed since Friday evening. And, all still looks fine with the exception of the shower of bad pixels on the Windows "logo.sys" bitmap at startup. Anyone know what's wrong? Happy to hear it's working well. Perhaps the bitmap for the Windows Logo is corrupted. You may be able to run SFC and replace it with one from your setup disk or install one of the many other logos available on the Internet. It is located: C:\Windows\Logos.sys and is around 130kb. It looks more like the "logo.sys" (not "logos.sys") bitmap. But, "logo.sys" is NOT located in C:\Windows. It is located in C:\BACKUP and C:\Windows\OPTIONS\CABS only. Also, the PCI video card did not show a light shower of bad pixels. Bootup using a different boot partition from a different HDD reduces the chance of a corrupt "io.sys" file, which contains the default Windows startup logo screen when "logo.sys" does not exist. |
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problem with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help
"Buffalo" wrote in message news Adam wrote: "Buffalo" wrote in message news Adam wrote: Well, it's installed and working for now. I'll have to let it run overnight to see how it goes. The thing that isn't perfect is the VGA cooler is so high that it sticks out of the case and is not compatible with the case cover (if I ever need to put it on). Also, not sure why but, on bootup, the Windows logo bitmap has a bunch of bad pixels at random places. After that, all looks fine. Any ideas? Well, the system has been running practically non-stop with the VGA cooler installed since Friday evening. And, all still looks fine with the exception of the shower of bad pixels on the Windows "logo.sys" bitmap at startup. Anyone know what's wrong? Happy to hear it's working well. Perhaps the bitmap for the Windows Logo is corrupted. You may be able to run SFC and replace it with one from your setup disk or install one of the many other logos available on the Internet. It is located: C:\Windows\Logos.sys and is around 130kb. It looks more like the "logo.sys" (not "logos.sys") bitmap. But, "logo.sys" is NOT located in C:\Windows. It is located in C:\BACKUP and C:\Windows\OPTIONS\CABS only. Also, the PCI video card did not show a light shower of bad pixels. You are correct about logo.sys and logos.sys. Perhaps you could try uninstalling your AGP video card drivers and installing the latest ones. I'm out of ideas. Hope your Radeon continues to work well otherwise. PS: Perhaps you should try uninstalling your PCI vid drivers, before installing the new AGP drivers. Booting into Safe Mode really magnifies the shower of bad pixels problem. Doesn't this eliminate the ATI AGP video card as the cause of the problem? |
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