Can't enable 3d acceleration

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silvermotion

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Hello all, i have this particular problem. I recently upgraded from a FX5700 vid card to a x700pro. it worked ok for a while then all of a sudden games dont work anymore. When i run dxdiag it now says that direct 3d is disabled, And when i move windows and folders around I can definitly notice all forms of video accelerations are diabled. In the SMARTGART screen, it says AGP is at OFF, along with fastwrites, I thought the card was defective so i returned to best buy and exchanged for another x700. Same thing happened, went back and got the x1600. same thing. funny part is when i stick my old nvidia geforce card everything works like wonder. I tried resetting the bios, i also tried a new power supply just in case, i cannot use these ATI cards into my system!

everything else works fine on my comp beside that video issue.

Is my mobo fried?
 
Did you uninstall the nvidia drivers before you installed the ati drivers?
 
absolutely

i also formatted and reinstalled windows several times, tried different drivers versions, tried different windows releases,

i definitly tried everything, only option left seems to be the motherboard
 
you are experiancing a driver problem not a hardware problem. if it was a hardware problem you wouldnt get any display. But you say you formatted? odd.
 
What mobo is it? What chipset? It sounds like a driver issue to me. It doesn't make sense that the nvidia card works but the ati doesn't. Use driver cleaner and try again.
 
my board is a SOYO KT400 Dragon lite, with a via chipset.

i updated the chipset drivers and video drivers to latest versions

still same results. direct3d is disabled and it says that my agp read, write, and fastwrites are all off.
 
ive tried resetting the bios, updating it, i used driver cleaner, i even reformated the computer again, nothing works.
 
It could easily be a hardware problem, and not a driver issue. It could also be a motherboard or BIOS problem.

I would recommend obtaining another ATI card supported by the driver you have installed, and see if that one works. If it does, you may have a bad card.

A bad video card will not necessarily give you no display whatsoever. There are many ways for a card to go bad, and not all of them will prevent the display from working at all.


Thanks,
Mark.
 
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