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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:25:01 +0200, "Peter Ziege" <peter-ziege@web.de>
wrote:
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>Paul wrote:
>> In article <desrc2$uko$05$1@news.t-online.com>, "Peter Ziege"
>> <peter-ziege@web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> I have so much problems with my A8V Deluxe. Now I think the
>>> graphiccard is the problem. I have running a ATI Radeon 9250.
>>> My question now, is it better to run a graphiccard with
>>> Nvidia-chipset? Thank for answers and sorry for my bad english.
>>
>> To diagnose a problem, it helps if you report the symptoms,
>> any error messages on the screen and so on.
>>
>> My experience with ATI products, is you must try several different
>> versions of the drivers for the card, to find a driver which
>> is stable. For example, with the driver on the ATI CD, I
>> was unable to boot my computer without it crashing. Downloading
>> a different driver version from ATI web site fixed it. (I
>> had to use Safe Mode to clean up the mess.)
>>
>> Occasionally, I see postings on the private web forums,
>> were certain brands of video cards and certain chipsets don't
>> seem to mix, but this is not going to be true most of the time.
>> Otherwise, the video card companies would go out of business.
>> (Too much returned product is bad for business.)
>>
>> Here is a Newegg product review for a 9250:
>>
>> "I bought this card back in January when I did a computer
>> rebuild. I needed something affordable, but better than my
>> GeForce4 MX440 64mb. Then I found this. I liked its size and
>> large amount of memory. It has an older directx config, but
>> once the driver is updated it runs the games great. I can
>> play WOW on this card with mid-level settings without any
>> major problems. One thing I did notice however was that
>> the heatsink got scalding hot. No problems though, bought
>> a 6 dollar PCI fan (from newegg) and stuck it right undernieth
>> and viola no more heat problems. I would highly recommend
>> this product."
>>
>> Check that the video card is not overheating.
>>
>> Paul
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>Here are my problems and symptoms.
>I have so many black screens with automatic reboot. Or I have an error from
>my graphiccard, VPU Recover. All the options in the bios about AGP 8 or 4x I
>turned on and off, without success.
>I can't believe it's the graphiccard for my problems, because the same card
>running before very well on my Epox 8KTA3+.
>
I have the ATI 9250 and had the same problems until I upgraded to the
latest Bios. My CPU is the 3000+ with Venice core.