I have been having several problems with my ATI Radeon 9200 128mb AGP graphics card. My motherboard supports 4x and 8x AGP. I am able to play several old games on it, but nothing newer than diablo II. For example, on my old Radeon 64mb PCI card I was able to play Neverwinter Nights without a problem. Now however, I am hardly able to even choose anything in the opening menu. After several hours of trying different things and reading different forums, I think the problem is my inability to turn on AGP. Setting the AGP speed to either 4x or 8x, as well as turning on AGP read and write in the Catalyst Control Center simply restarts my computer, changing nothing. I can change PCI read and write from the Control Center without a problem. In my bios I have turned on AGP read and right and changed the speed from 64mb to 128mb, but it still does not say it is turned on in the Catalyst Control Center and my game (Titan Quest) still lags horribly in the opening menu. As I said earlier, I am able to play Diablo II perfectly, even with the apparent error. I have the newest BIOS and have unistalled and reinstalled the driver several times. The PC is not overheating either. There is a pin with a case over it(sorry I don't know what it is called, it it very similar to the one used to change a harddrive to master/slave etc.) on the video card, I don't know if changing this would help at all. I have spent several frustrating hours restarting my PC after installing new drivers, changing Catalyst Control settings, and changing BIOS settings, and I would be very grateful for anyone that could help me out.
Here's my specs:
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.061219-0316)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model: KT400-8235
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page File: 413MB used, 2047MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
and my display info as well.
Card name: RADEON 9200 SERIES
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: RADEON 9250/9200 Series AGP (0x5964)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5964&SUBSYS_2073148C&REV_01
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Mode: 1152 x 864 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6614 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 5/3/2006 10:51:00, 258048 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: ati2mtag.sys
Here's my specs:
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.061219-0316)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model: KT400-8235
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page File: 413MB used, 2047MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
and my display info as well.
Card name: RADEON 9200 SERIES
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: RADEON 9250/9200 Series AGP (0x5964)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5964&SUBSYS_2073148C&REV_01
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Mode: 1152 x 864 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6614 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 5/3/2006 10:51:00, 258048 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: ati2mtag.sys
