OK so my new 8500 ISN'T DOA

[ghengisjam]

On a hunch I had a friend of mine take the new 8500 and install it on his backup system. Guess what, it's perfect. Now I read on the home page of OC.com here that there may be a problem with VIA chipset MOBO's and ATI AGP cards? Anybody have any ideas here? I'm goin nuts trying to figure this out. No POST, no nothing when I install this card in my pc. Can I install ATI's drivers on my old Diamond ViperV770 while it's up and running, then install the ATI card? I don't even get the bios or POST screen when I repower the pc. HELP!!!!!

[funnyperson1]

try flashing a new bios, there were problems but i believe that most mobo companies fixed it with a new bios....

[ghengisjam]

Did that. Set all my bios settings to auto for agp stuff. uninstalled my detonators, went back to WinXP defualt drivers. On a side note, how do I set my display to VGA in WinXP?? I can't seem to find a way to do this?

[Silversinksam]

Since you tried flashing your mobo......

REFORMAT

That solved every issue I had with Going from Nvidia to ATI


I tried Det. Destroyer and all sorts of stuff but the Format rectified my issues, your milage may vary but may be the solution.

[ghengisjam]

reformat??? that's pretty severe isn't it? Now I'm getting the run-around from ATI, "It isn't our cards problem, you have a MOBO problem". Skuze me? If I can return this card I'm going back to Nvidia... ATI seems to stand for "Another Terminated Installation"