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by peetree

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I have an ATI Radeon 7000 video card. Recently I tried it out. When I booted my machine there was no identifying message saying what it was or any other description. It, however, showed the normal sequence up to the start of my OS (98SE). From there it went to a blank screen, made some unidentified HDD noises and presented me with vertical lines approximately 5 on the screen. They looked like ASCI or the apostrophe characters, two in the row. This was just an imposition that didn't keep me from computing, because I had an el-cheapo one. I got it because it was supposedly better than the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX200 32MB at refreshing the screen during the use of a CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) program, MasterCAM. I am planning on going to XP instead.

It is an AMD 2400+ (2GHz) with PC2100 512RAM and a 266MHz FSB.

If you need other information to make a complete diagnosis let me know what. Thank you.

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by tim

Restart the computer in safe-mode. (F8) while compuer is rebooting. Go into device manager and remove all display adapters. (Right click on my computer and select properties, 2nd tab in.) Restrt computer. THis should prompt for Mfg software.

by thechas

First, you may have triggered the large RAM bug in W98.
W98 can have all kinds of strange problems with more than 511MB of RAM installed.
Changing a device or installing a new device driver can trigger the bug.

Next, did you open device manager and remove the old video card before installing the ATI?
If not, Windows is trying to load the old video driver and is having problems.

If you can, switch back to your old card and boot up.

Enter device manager,
Select the Display Adapter,
Click on Remove.

Shut down.
Swap display cards.

Boot up, and install the default display adapter.
If you have not already, download and install the AGP mini-port driver for your motherboard.

Next, Install DirectX 9b (from Microsoft).

Then, download and install the latest driver from ATI.

NOTE: ATI offers 2 different drivers.
One for made by ATI cards.
The other is a "reference" driver for cards with ATI GPUs made by other suppliers.
Most of the 3rd party ATI card manufactures use the "reference" driver as is.

That should take care of things.

Oh, some video cards display the "splash" screen for too short of a time for the monitor to respond and allow you to see it.

Chas

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