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.