Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600Pro

Motherboard: Matsonic MS8147C
CPU:AMD Athlon XP 2600
RAM (tell us the number of sticks and if you´re using different brands): Generic 1GB 3 sticks same brand
Video Card: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600PRO -AGP : 8x 128MB Apeture (never said I was good at spelling)
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PSU (Yes, in fourth place.) Detailed specs of the three main rails are a MUST! (...or at least the Brand & Model):Cheifmax 550w 12v-30A
Monitor (connection used):Cornerstone Color 21/75 fp
Hard drives: Maxtor 250GB : Seagate 200GB
Optical Drives:none
Additional PCI cards: Cmedia Sound Card 5.1
Number of fans present: 6 total - 2 in use

Video Card Drivers in Use (Control Panel or Catalyst Control Center?): From sapphiretech site
ATI RADEON™ HD 2400Pro/2600Pro/2600XT(AGP Only!) Windows XP(32/64-bit)(multilanguage)
XP_8.42-070914a-053413E-ATI

Motherboard Drivers Used:Matsonic Driver CD V5.8

Sorry if this has been, as I have been searching reading and following other tips and have not been able to fix my problems.

Here we go:

I just got this card today, before I bought I was reading and did see that the drivers that came with the disk did not work so I went and pre-downloaded the drivers. The driver I mentioned above is the only one I can get to work, so I am hoping that is all the drivers in one. After I installed that I tried to update the drivers on the drivers page with the ones that were newer than the
ATI RADEON™ HD 2400Pro/2600Pro/2600XT(AGP Only!) Windows XP(32/64-bit)(multilanguage)
XP_8.42-070914a-053413E-ATI
but I had no luck as I always got the
Notify >> (something )!=3 or something like that >> Failed to install (0xton of numbers and letters)

So ok, I figured it was ok, and thats where my driver situation is stuck.

Now I try to play the games that made me buy this card, COD4, NFS-PS. No Luck.

COD4 will flick the start screen for about 1/2 a second then nothing. NFS-PS will start to load then flicker the screen a ton of times, like it is trying to refresh.

I figured I would try to play some of my old games that I know work. NFS-C, NFS-MW, Tony Hawk Pro-Skater2 (old game I know), these wont even load either.

The card I just got done replacing was a Nvidia GeForce 5500FX 256MB. everything worked fine before the swap. The last ATI card I used was the Radeon 3200 32mb back in like 2002, So coming back to an ATI card was like a home coming for me.

Another problem I am having is when in the analog connector, I do not get the bios screen, if I want to see the bios screen I have to hook up my tv to the card or use the HDMI - Analog adaptor and run from the HDMI slot. Which I might just have to go back to doing, but I do not like to use adaptors, because of the signal loss.

If anyone could help me fix these problems or atleast give me some ideas I would greatly appreciate it.


Thank You