ATI Radeon, Soyo, XP Problem... Help!!!

[MBear]

All,

I am building a pc for a friend and have run across a problem.

First of all, here is the configuration:
Soyo 7VTAPro Motherboard (current bios)
AMD 1.4ghz, 233 FSB processor
512 meg Cas3 RAM (Kingston)
ATI Radeon 7000 32 mb, AGP (with ATI drivers loaded)
IBM 40 gig ide hd
3Com 3C50X nic
Windows XP Pro, with all current service packs
Extra cooling, cpu runs at about 114 degrees f, with the box closed.

Here are the problems:
If I set the AGP to 4X mode in the bios, the pc boots to about where XP
would load the video drivers and hangs. It will run in safe mode at 4X.
If I move to 2X mode, the pc will boot but has the following issues: runs
at 800x600, when I try to go to 1024x768, I get a nice calleidoscope of
random colors (it doesn't work). It also shows 800x600 and 1024x768 as my
only two options for resolution. It also will just randomly reboot. If I
change to a lower amount of screen colors, it seems to fix the random reboot
issue. I am not caching the video bios or any video memory in the system
bios.

Here is what I have tried:
Swapped video card with same model
Swapped RAM
Swapped CPU
Swapped motherboards with another 7VTAPro
Tried both ATI and XP video drivers
Moved the 3Com card to another slot
Tried another nic card

There are no conflicts listed in sys info, and everything other than the
video card seems rock solid.

My question:
Is there known issue with this ATI card? Is there a comparably priced card
that has been tested with a configuration similar to this one? Or, should I
go with an ATI 7500?

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!
M

 

[vaxbuster]

I've had similar problems with other AGP cards and motherboards. You might check the motherboard driver cd and see if there are AGP drivers specific to the motherboard and/or Windows XP.

 

[Guest_imported]

I build a similar system to the one that you are decribing,but in never ran into these kinds of issues, but i will try to help you out anyway.
Make sure that you check to see if the mother board has on board video or not. If it does you need to disable this becasue that can cause big probs. Alsom the AGP aparature size is really not that imortatnt. I had a card hat was a ATI radeon ddr vivo and i plugged it into that same board ( or similar) that you had and is seemed to work ok after i disabled the onboard video. Im sorry i cant be to much help but maybe that has something to do with it. :~/

 

[TerrySr]

Try these updated drivers for the 7000 at:

http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon7000/winxp/radeon7000winxpdrivers.html

Dated 3/20/02

Hope this helps..

 

[troy689]

No. 1 I have had a lot of success with ATI, but I ossasionally get burned when I forget to use the ATI install/uninstall programs. Use the device manager upgrade driver button or the hardware wizard and good luck.
No. 2 Installed an All in Wonder Rage in a recent mother board running Win2K. worked great until I upgraded to Windows 7.1 Media Player. I then spent a better part of two days making sure the uninstalled net meeting and uninstalled webb tv couldn't be the culprit. Uninstalled Win Media Player but STill getting TV Tuner failed to initialize. Got fixed by reinstalling Win2k on a clean partition after 46 fruitless windows repair attempts in 35 hours. Hope their feeble repair routine gets improved in XP .... PS...New IExplore 6 includes the new media player. Help!
No. 3 All in Wonder Rage Pro 128 AGP Refused to fuction in two different 900mhz mother bds ASUS ATA266 & Giggabyte GA-7IXE4. One year later Asus fixed the problem with 3rd Bios upgrade. Works great in the wifes DFI Board. Now how do I get my tuner card away from the wife???? Isn't computing fun??? MORE v
No. 4 Direct X 8.1 is for Win 98/SE, not for Win2k Got that ATI!!? And my tv works great without the 8.0a Patch. Tell Uncle Bill to fix his new media player...see ya.

 

[gilbertdube]

I did just - new gigabyte GA-8IDX with a Pentium 4 1.6
still having the same problem, Hardware would initialize (Code 10)

My reseller found the solution
My Card was a Radeon 8500LE --> Powercolor
He told me to use the driver from the Powercolor site
instaid of ATI. It working fine.

http://210.62.129.189/driver.htm

Hope it help.