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9800XT Installation Issues...

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pvtgoose

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Ok, I have had a Geforce3 TI200 for as long as they have been out, and have finally upgraded to a 9800xt, thanks to the buyselltrade forum. Problem is, whenever I install the ati catalyst 4.7 drivers, the computer will not boot normally, only in safe mode. I read in the sticky about driverclean, and followed those directions explicitly, but still no luck. I have an AMD 2500 barton with 768mb memory and a soltek (nforce2) motherboard. I have to be missing a setting somewhere but am baffled, please help.
John
 
Reformat. Period. For best performance/compatiblity when going ATI>Nvidia or vice versa, reformat.
 
So I take it that is the general consensus? I was thinking maybe I had a bios setting wrong, or a program I had conflicted
 
Ok, now on a fresh install of XP, complete format, I get, on the reboot into safe mode,

Windows has shutdown unexpectadly, due to the drivers for the following device,
9800xt
 
pvtgoose said:
Ok, now on a fresh install of XP, complete format, I get, on the reboot into safe mode,

Windows has shutdown unexpectadly, due to the drivers for the following device,
9800xt
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maybe a dodgy card....never had any probs with my old 9800xt
 
Well, if it's still giving you problems after a format, then its definately a hardware issue. You could RMA the card back, but, don't feel like you wasted a format. You would have probably needed to do it anyways. I did.
 
Actually, reseat the card, my jack@ss. It was after I swapped it with the other 9800xt that I had, and it worked, that I went back to it, and all I got was a beep from the computer. This being a step back, I pulled the card back out and the power connector was loose, problem resolved, I am a dummy.
 
I installed a new Gigabyte 9600xt on an MSI K7N2 (NForce2) just this weekend. I had some similar issues. I could get the post screen and into the bios but after Windows started loading my Dell 200FP would go into PowerSave mode. I could get into safe mode sometimes but sometimes not. I simply put my old card in flashed the bios updated my chipset drivers and then reinstalled the new card. It runs smooth as silk now. Of course I used the DriverClean method rather than reformat.

Hope this helps.

DS
 
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