Video card issue, I doubt anyone can help, but please try =)

Swine, if hes never done it before then he doesn't need to try. DO NOT do this unless someone SHOWS you exactly how, and you know for sure that you get the right BIOS update. It is very easy to get the wrong one.

I seriously suggest you listen and find someone to show you how to do this or buy a BIOS Savior so you dont have to worry about screwing your system over and never being able to use that motherboard again.

Let him decide, there IS a first time for everything, you know......I'm not holding a gun to his head or anything!

Simply put, the R9700PRO will not work any many, many older motherboards until the BIOS is flashed to a current BIOS. The mobo may well be running out of spec, and NOTHING he does to the rest of his system may solve his issue.

I just don't see how this should be ignored.


EDIT- now that you mention it, he may as well make sure he has the latest chipset drivers installed in his mobo as well. A quick stop at your MOBO site will tell you which chipset driver you need to install. I'd reccomend that as well.

Anyway, I'm said my piece.

Good luck solving your isssue(s), whatever it may or may not be...

~Swine



Another EDIT: Here's a great R9700/R9500PRO troubleshooting thread from rage3d.com here

It's an ATI video card and no one brought up drivers?

Meehu, when you upgraded to the Radeon did you completely remove the drivers from your old card before installing it? You gotta be running the plain VGA driver when you install otherwise you have problems. ATI's drivers are notorious for issues like this, you even have to completely remove an old ATI driver before you install a new one.

You might also want to ask this on Rage 3D 's forums. They're an all ATI site so they may have better advice.

(HBZ)

Ya, did that






Update: My comp is homebuilt and I never put a 3.5 inch floppy drive in it, so I am waiting for my friend to give me his rather than blow 12.50 at microcenter :grinthumb

Ya, did that






Update: My comp is homebuilt and I never put a 3.5 inch floppy drive in it, so I am waiting for my friend to give me his rather than blow 12.50 at microcenter :grinthumb

I have the exact same problem...... spent a whole wad of cash on coolers but to no avail. I've had every concievable answer given to me. things like get a line conditioner because the devices that are sharing the power with the pc are taking its power, too hot, not enough memory, corrupted game version, install latest drivers blah blah blah.

just know i know how it feels

Welcome to the 21st century . If you going to be a techie, or going to use computers, then be prepared to get those kinds of answers from technical support personell that can only give you answers from a list because they aren't right in front of your computer to really help you (even though most of those tech sup. pers. are *****s some of them are actually pretty smart). Just remember guys when your talking to anyone that is helping you, especially tech support that they can't really do much but help you. All they can do is go over a list of fixes for that problem and hope that one of them work. There are millions of combinations of things that can cause something to not work correctly on a PC. Helping someone diagnose those millions of possiblitys is impossible, even harder over the Internet or phone. It is MUCH easier if it's your PC to fix, because you know your PC up and down especially if you built it and your the only one that uses it.

Being in technical support (it is about 20% of my job) I know how hard it is to help someone over the phone. Especially when it comes to dialup Internet. I've written a 20 page FAQ with literally a list of questions that people have asked me since I've been here and answers that I gave them to those questions hoping it would help them or fix their problem. That is really all you can do for someone over the phone, especially with dialup Internet.

Hopefully my FAQ will help future employees.

Just thought I would put that point across. If your like me, your just glad that forums like this exist where you can get real professionals opinions and help with problems, instead of these losers they call MCSE's, A+ certified, etc that can't even boot up a PC, but just because they have a peice of paper they can get a great job and then everyone thinks they know what they are talking about.

A lot of the guys here know what they are talking about. Then ones that dont know as much, dont pretend like they know more than they do. I admire that which is why I visit this forum about 20 times a day.

All In Wonder 9700 pro

Hey builders. I am having that same problem. My system will not boot up unless I unplug my aiw card for 3 seconds then plug it back in.
My system is,
Soyokt880 dragon 2 motherboard
Anteck 430 true power psu
creative audigy 2zs pro
aiw 9700 pro.
cdrw
dvd-cdrw
In my previous system, soyo kt400 ultra platinum mother board based system, I had no booting issues with the same configuration. I have orderes an Ultra 600 watt psu and should have it by 12-07-04. I think that antecs' psu are a little too sensative at the cold boot.
When everything in your system is high end, maybe it is best to get a high power psu to run the equipment. Will post an update when I install my 600 watt psu

Antec Shmantec

I have 2 Antecs, the smart blue 350 ant the 430 true power. Yes they are good stable power supplies but when it really counts and one builds a true high end system, Antec can't handle the strain. Antec is comming out with their gaming psu. Find it in Decembers article in PCWORLD magazine. Antec recognized their problem without admitting it so to continue to be competative, their new psu gaming 550 will be out soon. I ordered an Ultra 600 and am anticipating its arrival so I can test it in my system.