Xentor 32 garbled screen

[den332]

I just installed a Guillemot Xentor 32 on my system which is a Athlon 500 oc'ed to 700 and 1.6 volts. It's on a MS6167 with the latest bios. I also have a CL PCI128 sound card. I'm running Win 98. With the Xentor I get black blotches on the screen that increase until the screen is unreadable. If I open something and close it the area behind the open window is relatively clear but fills up with the blotches. I have tried all the drivers with no effect.
The card is seated properly and the fan is running.
Any suggestions?

Thanks
Dennis

[RobRich]

Assuming your using a good 300watt or greater power supply, it sounds either like a cooling problem, or possibley a defective card. A bad RAMDAC or a bad piece of video memory can create these effects. Since your o/c'd I will assume you have a good cooling system in your case, so that leads me to believe you have a defective card. I also assume you have ran the latest 3.77 beta drivers, plus disabled AGP 2x and sideband addressing. If so, you might want to start looking at your warantee information.

[seti]

EDIT...opps


Does the problem still present itself when running the cpu at default speed?

[This message has been edited by seti (edited 02-25-2000).]

[den332]

Yes to all except-
How do I disable sidebanding?
How to I enable only 1X AGP?

Thanks
Dennis

[RobRich]

By using this nice little registry tweaker that will perform the proper modifications for you:

http://www.reactorcritical.com/files...egTweak095.zip

This is only applicable if you have the AMD Irongate chipset. If your running the VIA chipset, have you installed the latest 4-in-1 driver package from VIA. It is needed for several AGP function calls. It can be found here:

http://www.reactorcritical.com/files/4in1420.exe

[den332]

I have the Irongate.
I am currently dl'ing the file now.
Thanks for the help.

Dennis

[den332]

Well I tried everything, no luck.
The place I bought it from will give a refund but if it works for them they send it back with no credit. I just hope it's not and AMD or Microstar thing.
Thanks for the help

Dennis