ATI Radeon 8500 Problems, Please help

[Guest]

I bought an ati radeon 8500 about a week ago and i can't get everything working. I am running an athlon 1.2Ghz on an iwill mobo with the Ali Magic 1 chipset. has anyone heard about compatability issues with this mobo, or chipset?
text is garbled and messiah, max payne, and aquanox all cause problems.

 

[ycs46241]

did you do a clean install with ati cd i have a radeon and they recomend no drivers preinstalled just install card then reboot place in cd and follow dir but if not
go here and you get ati's support
<A HREF="http://support.ati.com/?parent=0&folder=66&doc=51" target="_new">http://support.ati.com/?parent=0&folder=66&doc=51</A>

 

[noko]

Your best bet is to go to <A HREF="http://rage3d.com" target="_new">http://rage3d.com</A>. A very friendly community that will be able to help you out .

 

[Crashman]

Did you install the updated drivers? The supplied drivers have a flaw that prevents them from working on many AMD systems, the new driver (available on ATI's website) fixes that and many other issues.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[Guest]

Yeah i tryed the new drivers and i have tryed winxp, 98 SE, and ME, all with every combination of drivers possible, i also tryed installing a new agp driver for my motherboard and that also did not solve the problem. Thanks for the help though