Radeon 8500 Will Not Install On BX Board

[Kaiser_Sose]

I follwed this guide to not only uninstall drivers but install my new 8500 128 MB at the same time.

After Step 5 is when I took out my Radeon 32 DDR [7200] and installed the 8500.

After I reooted I installed 9009 drivers by pointing windows to the folder where it is extracted ... the .inf installed

After I installed the drivers I rebooted but its not working, it says ..... Your display adapter conflicts with another device in your computer, To correct the problem, click OK, ....

In the device manager under Display Properties it does say Radeon 8500/Radeom 8500 LE and under the resouce tab it says ..... Memory Range 00000000 - 0FFFFFFF used by:
System board extension for PnP BIOS
Memory Range 00000000 - 0FFFFFFF used by:
Promise Technology Inc. Ultra66 IDE Controller
Memory Range 00000000 - 0000FFFF used by:
System board extension for PnP BIOS
Input/Output Range 0000 - 00FF used by:
Programmable interrupt controller
Input/Output Range 0000 - 00FF used by:
Numeric data processor
Memory Range 00000000 - 0001FFFF used by:
System board extension for PnP BIOS

I have tried several times now removing the device and starting over again

What should I do

P 3 1 GHZ
MSI Bx Master
Win 98 SE

 

[Kaiser_Sose]

It has to be something with my BX board ... I need to fix this because that my gaming machine

As I said before I put back my 32 DDR and thats fine. Then I tried an experiment ..... I just shut down took out the 32 DDR and put in thw Radeon 8500 128 MB .... rebooted and I get the same error

Your display adapter conflicts with another device in your computer, To correct the problem, click OK, to view the properties of the device

When I click OK ...

The device can not find an Input / Output range [I / O] resources to use [code 12]

I shut down and put back my 32 DDR and everything is fine ok

I then installed the 8500 in my ECS K7S5A which previously has a 7000 .... it detected it fine and everything is OK.

I need to get this 8500 to work with the BX master in Win 98 SE because that is the machine with all my games .... the other one is my server

 

[CSaddict]

Ok you most likely know this but here goes.
1. go in and uninstall all ati related programs,but you have to uninstall driver.
2. go in the device manager and remove the card,(if its not already gone)
3. shut down the machine.
4.start the machine in safe mode and go into the device manager and under display adapters look for any ghosted drivers, remove any that remain.
5. shut machine down again.
6. ground yourself and then install your new card.
7. fire the machine up.
8. should go into standard vga and want to reboot, then reboot.
9. fire it up and run the driver cd that CAME WITH THE CARD.
10. If that doesn't work, and it should, you might have an IRQ conflict, not likely but maybe.

sounds like a ghosted driver but I have the same card and had some issues with the install. Thats what I did and its doing very well now.

 

[Kaiser_Sose]

This is what an MSI tech told me ...... is it true

Hardware sites are reporting that all cards with 128MB can do this sort of stuff (GF4 or Radeon).
It has to do with older bios not having enogh ROM space to allocate the needed memory.


Since you already have the latest bios I can't think of much else to do.

You can see if using it without any other PCi card and disabling stuff in the bios such as LPT/COM/USB allows it to work.

 

[Kaiser_Sose]

How about this ....

Has anyone got any 128 MB card to install on a BX board

 

[Tracert]

Anyone want to give me a 128 MB video card and I will try it on my 2nd machine (It's a BX board).

 

[Kaiser_Sose]

Anyone want to give me a 128 MB video card and I will try it on my 2nd machine (It's a BX board).

Sure ... its in the mail

Get real

 

[h20link]

try going into your BIOS and looking at the AGP options....my soyo mobo has an "AGP Aperture Size" option where you can specify 32, 64 or 128 mb video cards...that might help.

 

[deez]

AGP aperture size is the amount of memory the AGP bus can address when the cards onboard memory is full...its called side band addressing

I suppose its worth a try to set this differently but it shouldn't prevent the card from booting. Anyways here's an intel article I found that may or may not be helpful

http://support.intel.com/support/technologies/graphics/agp/aperture2.htm

 

[Kaiser_Sose]

I talked to ATI tech support they did tell me that the BX chipset is compatable with the 128 MB card but its up to MSI to make it work with their BX board .... the same goes for Abit, etc ....


He also told me that he personally had a similar experience with the 128 MB card on his Asus P3BF3 [BX]. Its up to the board company's to accomadate for the 128 MB video cards because the BX chipset can work with them .... its up to the board company's to implement it

This why I asked if anyone got any 128 MB card to work on a BX board

An MSI tech on their forums told me that changing the Aperature size will not help but I can try

 

[deez]

Yeah I have an old FIC board that wont take some types of AGP cards. There were several bios updates but I couldn't get my TNT2 card to work right in that mobo. I have an old ATI Rage 128 in it right now.

Maybe a bios update will help...sometimes even older bios versions will do the trick.

 

[Tracert]

Sure ... its in the mail

Get real

LOL. I can always dream... right?