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deLuxe.EPiDEMiC

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I bought a ati radeon x1600 pro. and when i connect to the computer and hook it up to the monitor and turn on my computer my whole screen is filled with green lines going vertically. why is it doing this? I run a vaio pcv-rs610. and by the way do i install the driver first then plug in the video card? right now i am using the built in intel graphics controller. can anyone give me the steps to change the video card correctly?
 
Per our PMs, do you have the floppy connector plugged into the video card?

Aside from the Intel video, did you have another video card in the system before? If so, make sure you uninstall its drivers first - better yet, use DriverCleaner (Google it) to wipe out the previous drivers. Do so in Safe Mode.

You can use the card with no drivers installed and then install drivers after a successful boot. I recommend the ones on the Sapphire CD that came with the card, or at the very latest Catalyst 7.7 - ATI has had driver issues with AGP cards from 7.8 on, which aren't fixed yet.

As a last resort, you may need to disable the Intel video in your BIOS and/or Device Manager, but I doubt it. And you'd probably have to do that with the card working properly.
 
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