In Need of Tech Help

by **Colonel Ingus** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 11:40 pm

Having a hard time trying to get running a new mid range system I bought.

New MoBo, CPU, and RAM. Stuck my ATI card into and get an "INF error" and it says to try and change my display adapter to a standard VGA default.

However when i go to my Adapter page it doesn't let me update my driver from VGASave.

And on the adapter page everything reads <unavailable>

Chip type, DAC Type, Memory Size, etc.. I am pretty sure thats my problem but no idears how to fix it.

When I run the CD that came with the MoBo it loads and then restarts the computer but it doesn't appear to do anything.

And for those of you who are getting sick and tired of the political rants this is in your best interest. Haven't been able to play with my old system and once I get the new one working I'll be in game and not posting:D

Seriously though any and all help appreciated. thanks guys

This is the first time I've tried to build a system since the early 90's so its a relearning process (wasn't to difficult to get a 386 or 486 up to speed)

[edit] changed title from tech support to tech help. Didn't want anyone thinking my server was down or anything:D

by **inmate#655321** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 11:46 pm

How is it set up in your bios? What motherboard is it? It may have issues with an ATI card. I would set the bios to defaults and work from there. You can also trying booting the system while holding the shift key. That sets video defaults.

by **Colonel Ingus** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:13 am

Thanks for the response inmate, I should have provided detaills (I knew better than that:( )

Mobo is a Asus P4P800 SE

Label reads:

Socket 479, Intel 865PE,DDRAM,AGP 8x, 6-channel audio,Marvell Gbit LAN, SATA RAID, ATA100,S/PDIF out interface,CrashFree BIOS2,Q-Fan technology, Multi-language BIOS

The CPU:

P4 2.40A Ghz 1.4v max System Bus 533 Mhz 1MB L2-Cache, PGA-479 Pkg

And the card is an ATI 9600SE.

The whole idea was to get a workable midrange system til next springish. I was waiting until the 1GHz+ FSB MoBo's with 64 bit Intel's (that work and don't overheat:D ) and the Longhorn OS comes out.

I was running a P4 1.7 Sony Vaio (4 years old) that was stuck using SDRAM and when I run some diagnostic programs I had access to they told me my ram bottleneck was keeping me to about 25% of what I could achieve.

I bought this crap so I could upgrade the RAM/FSB speed to DDR 333 at a minimum.

I was just going to tough it out with my Vaio which was starting to crap out but I wandered into a swap meet today and found some acceptable prices.

by **Bullhead** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:59 am

Originally posted by Colonel Ingus

New MoBo, CPU, and RAM. Stuck my ATI card into and get an "INF error" and it says to try and change my display adapter to a standard VGA default.

Is this a windows error? or Bios?

Which version of windows?

Can you force the vid drivers to install? (how depends on which version of windows)

definately check the bios options, might be something not set right there....

by **Colonel Ingus** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:10 am

Windows Xp (f*$king vulture Gates just made another couple of hundie off me) Home edition.

Its in Windows when I am trying to install the ATI Cat drivers intitally. Load up the Catalyst driver cd that comes with the card and it won't go past that warning

Tried loading drivers thru device manager and add hardware but neither worked.

Not sure what to look for in BIOS, everything there looks ok. Its recognizing all of my other hardware, and its running the monitor thru the card (I am using the new system to peruse ECGN right now) I just can't seem to get it to recognize my Chipset and/or load drivers.

by **Mr. Slayer** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:43 am

If it is a BIOS problem you may want to try flashing to the latest BIOS.

by **Bullhead** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:40 am

1. I'd definately NOT use the install cd for the ATI card. There definately alot newer drivers out, and they may have a bug fix that would correct this.

2. If I read that right (which I might not, still waking up

), your chipset drivers aren't installed? If that's the case, your ati drivers shouldn't install, or shouldn't work right at the least.

Ingus, can you post a screencap of your device manager? And any other screens that show errors that might be relevant?

by **inmate#655321** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:43 am

Can you run with windows default video drivers until you can download the latest Catalyst drivers? The earliest version of the catalyst drivers were BUGGY as all hell.

My roomie has the Asus p4c800e dx. He had some problems with the ati 9800 pro when he first installed it.

by **-HaVoC-** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:27 pm

Is this a freshly installed system or did it have an OS and now it's been presented with new hardware?

by **Colonel Ingus** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:33 pm

See this thread for how I found out all of you were right

http://forums.powervs.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=149859#post149859

It was a virgin install on a just built system. Downloaded newest drivers and *POP* works like a charm.

Thanks for all the help guys.

I owe you all a :beer:

or 10

by **inmate#655321** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:26 am

Glad it worked out, Ingus

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