feioncastor
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Okay, here's the story.
I know a bit about computers, and obviously, not enough. You know, since I ended up here. A friend of mine wanted to play some Unreal Tournament, so he asked me to help him shop for a decent graphics card. I popped open his computer to see if he had an AGP slot, and he did not (w00t for Dell, amiright?).
So I ordered him a ATI Radeon 7000. It came with a drivers disc, and the disc had a junkload of drivers on it, for a lot of different cards, like Nvidia and a few others. I clicked the file for WinXp drivers in the Radeon directory, and did the typical installation, involving clicking next a bunch of times. When prompted to restart, I said okay, and the comp shut down.
By the way, all this time, the monitor was still plugged into the onboard video card.
Well, the ATI Radeon 7000 has two monitor ports, for dual monitoring good stuff. But my friend had just one monitor, and has no desire to get a second.
So I plugged the monitor into the graphics card upon restarting and the monitor did not respond until windows was done loading, and at the User screen.
I went into Device Manager, and disabled the onboard video card, and things seemed to being going well.
Then he tried to play a video. You'd get audio, but the video would simply stay at whatever was on the first frame of the video. I checked the Hardware acceleration, and dragged the slider down to the option that disabled Direct3D and Directdraw, and then videos would play, pretty normally, with a bit of lag, which is to be expected. No big deal.
But to play games like UT2004, he had to adjust the slider thing for Hardware acceleration up to full.
Interestingly enough, the monitor is still not responding until windows is fully loaded up and at the select-a-user screen.
And this is the weirdest part. Now, when you adjust the Hardware acceleration slider thing, the computer stops responding when you click apply.
One thing I noticed is that when windows starts up, a message appears saying the ATI control panel can't start because the drivers aren't installed, or they aren't current, or something to that effect.
I've installed the drivers that came with the card about 20 times, and I don't know what else to do!!
Please help if you can.
I know a bit about computers, and obviously, not enough. You know, since I ended up here. A friend of mine wanted to play some Unreal Tournament, so he asked me to help him shop for a decent graphics card. I popped open his computer to see if he had an AGP slot, and he did not (w00t for Dell, amiright?).
So I ordered him a ATI Radeon 7000. It came with a drivers disc, and the disc had a junkload of drivers on it, for a lot of different cards, like Nvidia and a few others. I clicked the file for WinXp drivers in the Radeon directory, and did the typical installation, involving clicking next a bunch of times. When prompted to restart, I said okay, and the comp shut down.
By the way, all this time, the monitor was still plugged into the onboard video card.
Well, the ATI Radeon 7000 has two monitor ports, for dual monitoring good stuff. But my friend had just one monitor, and has no desire to get a second.
So I plugged the monitor into the graphics card upon restarting and the monitor did not respond until windows was done loading, and at the User screen.
I went into Device Manager, and disabled the onboard video card, and things seemed to being going well.
Then he tried to play a video. You'd get audio, but the video would simply stay at whatever was on the first frame of the video. I checked the Hardware acceleration, and dragged the slider down to the option that disabled Direct3D and Directdraw, and then videos would play, pretty normally, with a bit of lag, which is to be expected. No big deal.
But to play games like UT2004, he had to adjust the slider thing for Hardware acceleration up to full.
Interestingly enough, the monitor is still not responding until windows is fully loaded up and at the select-a-user screen.
And this is the weirdest part. Now, when you adjust the Hardware acceleration slider thing, the computer stops responding when you click apply.
One thing I noticed is that when windows starts up, a message appears saying the ATI control panel can't start because the drivers aren't installed, or they aren't current, or something to that effect.
I've installed the drivers that came with the card about 20 times, and I don't know what else to do!!
Please help if you can.
