waxmastawes
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First off hello everyone, this is my 1st post! Hopefully one of my last, on this thread at least!
Alright.
I have an old ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 128mb DDR video card (AGP).
I am trying to install it in my recently purchased, 180$, older Intel Thinkcenter P4 3.0ghz 1gb RAM system. Its running on an Intel REV 2.5Motherboard
The P4 system has an onboard graphics chip (96mb).
The problem I am having is AFTER I get the 128MB "new" card to work..
It doesn't work for long.
I can shut down/restart a few times fine, but when I wake up the next morning...
All of a sudden I get No Image Whatsoever at startup.. The monitor doesn't even detect any pre-windows signal. Nothing.
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Here's the steps I took to installing my "new" card..
1. Start > Ctrl Panel > System > Device Manager > Disabled Onboard graphics card
2. Download ATI Catalyst (Driver for 'new' card)
3. Boot up to BIOS and change the Primary video to AGP instead of Integrated video, and memory size to 128 instead of 96.
4. Save & Exit; Plug monitor into 'new' card
That usualy works. I can get to windows and install the ATI Drivers.
But then, my problem----> It doesn't last.
I dont understand why this is? Is there some sort of time-out thing going on that switches back to my onboard video? Cause in BIOS the settings i changed to match my 'new' card, remain the same...(128 memory and AGP as the primary) I couldn't find any apparent physical Jumper switch to disable the onboard graphics either.
Alright.
I have an old ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 128mb DDR video card (AGP).
I am trying to install it in my recently purchased, 180$, older Intel Thinkcenter P4 3.0ghz 1gb RAM system. Its running on an Intel REV 2.5Motherboard
The P4 system has an onboard graphics chip (96mb).
The problem I am having is AFTER I get the 128MB "new" card to work..
It doesn't work for long.
I can shut down/restart a few times fine, but when I wake up the next morning...
All of a sudden I get No Image Whatsoever at startup.. The monitor doesn't even detect any pre-windows signal. Nothing.
________________________________________________________________________
Here's the steps I took to installing my "new" card..
1. Start > Ctrl Panel > System > Device Manager > Disabled Onboard graphics card
2. Download ATI Catalyst (Driver for 'new' card)
3. Boot up to BIOS and change the Primary video to AGP instead of Integrated video, and memory size to 128 instead of 96.
4. Save & Exit; Plug monitor into 'new' card
That usualy works. I can get to windows and install the ATI Drivers.
But then, my problem----> It doesn't last.
I dont understand why this is? Is there some sort of time-out thing going on that switches back to my onboard video? Cause in BIOS the settings i changed to match my 'new' card, remain the same...(128 memory and AGP as the primary) I couldn't find any apparent physical Jumper switch to disable the onboard graphics either.