tyleronline said:
hi everyone im new here so plaese bare with me.i recently bought a radeon x700 graphics card for my pc but have had a bit of trouble getting it started. i iserted the card into the agp 8x slot.i then started up my pc but was not greeted by any new hardware wizard or anything at all.i am quite sure the card is in properly but have had nothing onscreen that acknolowges its existence.i plugged my monitor into the onboard graphics card because the new card doesnt work.i have downloaded the drivers from the ati website but get an error message when trying to install them.it says "setup was unable to find components that can be installed on your current hardware or software configuration.please make sure that you have the required hardware or software". i simply dont understand.any help on this matter would be graetly appreciated
i have a carillon ac-1 with 3.2 intel p4 cpu
asrock 775i65gv motherboard
512 mb ram
win xp home
Hi,
I just bought the same Video Card, and had the same problem, among others.
Here are detailed suggestions I got from 2 & 3 level ATI tech support.
1) Uninstall the ATI drivers and boot into standard VGA mode, run the program "Driver Cleaner" and remove all traces of the ATI drivers.
2) Go to Viaarena or your AGP driver support page and download the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard, install these drivers.
3) Get your latest BIOS update revision and install.
4) Review any AGP settings in your BIOS and set for optimum performance.
5) Now reinstall a fresh copy of the ATI Radeon Drivers, and reboot your system.
Please note, ALL of the above steps did NOT resolve my 700X problem. It turned out my Gigabyte Motherboard did not have adequate AGP support options to handle this excellent Vid Card. I upgraded the motherboard and the card went in like a charm!
Good Luck!
