ati rage woes

[lordsac]

I am about 5 minutes from destroying my video card and my computer. PLEASE...help!! I have an abit BH6 running a celeron 300a and it has 96 megs of ram. I am runnign windows 98 and like ot paly games alot. Well, I just went out and bought an ATI rage fury 128 AGP card. The thing is, i did liek the instructins said to do, change my video to standard vga, take out the old card (a voodoo 2 banshee pci) and install the new one. well, when i do i got the card running, but directx says it doesnt have any 3d capabilities and my agp isnt applicable. I wanna know how to fix it, i have tried everywhere, no one helps. I think my agp isnt set up right or soemthing, cause the card works, my friend tryed it. Please help. oh yeah, the only way i can get it to run is if i turn off the hardware acceleration in the performance tab in windows graphics properties. As soon as i turn it up to minimal the screen goes black when i restart and the pointer is all ya can see. help help help..i am dyin here

[Target]

Have you made sure that within your bios setup, that the AGP card is set to be the boot-up display device? I know that you need to set the primary display device within bios to be AGP instead of PCI. That might solve your issues and allow the AGP drivers to actually work.

Beyond that, you might try to get the updated drivers from ATI for your card, and the latest version of directX (version 7a).

Good luck.

[kongkong]

It seems that you did what the instructions say, whatever... just to make sure... the correct order is...

Power down - swap the new card in - bootup - press 'del', in bios, change the primary video card to AGP - after "POST", press "F8" or "Ctrl+F5", whichever works for you, to enter the safe mode - remove the old card's driver - reboot - at the time when windows starts, it should detect the new card and ask you for its driver - insert the driver CD or floppy - now everything should work at the default resolution and 16 color - change the display properties to whatever you want...

Did you miss some steps?

hope this will help...

[lordsac]

thanks for your replies, but at around 4am this mornin I figured out that the drivers for the pII bridge to agp were corrupt. I searched the net and found some that would work and now all my problems are gone, but I still cant play quakeworld teamfortresss on it. That will be tonights problem. hehehe...thanks alot guys/gals

[BBA]

Do you have IRQ assigned to vga enabled in bios? Some AGP cards require this. I think it might be the culprit.

Then again, ATI has never been the card of choice for games so I've only dealt with few Rage 128's. They all seem to delay output to the monitor by about 1/4 second which gives you the feeling of being drunk when trying to play. Their may be a way to disable the "Draw so many frames ahead" feature that causes this.



[This message has been edited by BBA (edited 01-03-2000).]