[trufort13]

I've just installed a 4670 ati radeon card with 512mg onboard (PCI-e x16) to speed up my video editing. It replaces my gigabyte MOBO's ati x1200. I have a 500w psu; 4gig memory; AMD 3000 x2 (windows xp pro; pack 3)

Since installed the 4670 the whole system is deathly slow in every way and most windows (firefox, system etc) often are not displayed fully.

Attempt to uninstall Ati Catalyst control and driver each caused freezes. Cleaned up Reg and reinstalled. Found tiny improvement. Old x1200 disabled via BIOS before reinstall.

Anyone got any ideas what the heck's wrong and what to do about it apart from junking the damn card.

[TekTime]

Did you fully uninstall the drivers and software from your x1200 (did you disable it in BIOS)?


Uninstall the card, uninstall the drivers in control panel, and re-seat the card.

If that doesn't help, try the Omega drivers, (if you're not already using them):

http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati_winxp.php

[trufort13]

Thanks for your reply.
Who knows? As I said uninstalling caused my machine to freeze, effectively crash, both times, so I ran a Reg cleanup prog afterwards just in case there were any bits n pieces kicking about. But I did not physically remove the card etc which I will now try with a complete reinstall as you suggest.

Yup, did the Bios disable second time round. It's supposed to select the appropriate card automatically, but I disabled it second time.

I know nothing abt these Omega drivers, but I'll give em a go.

ON the first install I used the drivers off the accompanying disc and updated em; second time downloaded the appropriate drivers on to desktop from Ati and installed them from there.

Ah well, here's hoping.
Thanks again. Something as simple as this really should not be such a pain.

[loserOlimbs]

reg cleaner? ACK!!!!!!

Lets ignore that problem for now...

Can you uninstall the drivers from Safe Mode?

[darkwade]

what is the mobo's model number? did you get your drivers from game.amd.com? and check that you are using a matching bit rate eg 32bit drivers on win64

[darkwade]

also sometimes higher end mobos have Pci-E power settings if its a option make sure that its not on like 25W that card takes about 50W. the old x1200 shouldn't be troubling you most ATi based boards support a hybrid mode seance like 06 .

[trufort13]

I just knew someone would ask - it's GA-MA69VM-S2 (rev 1) amd690V + SB600 chipset if this means anything to you. I've seen nothing in the literature or BIOS about Pci-e settings, but if you know different I'll be happy to hear.

[trufort13]

Originally Posted by loserOlimbs

reg cleaner? ACK!!!!!!

Lets ignore that problem for now...

Can you uninstall the drivers from Safe Mode?

Ah well, it's the best I could do. The crystal centre and driver were finally removed (?) using Revo Uninstall, but doing it crashed my machine each time. But to the best of my knowledge it did clear them out. Why it should crash me is perplexing.

[darkwade]

I don't know why it would crash like that!
well if you live in central Maine you could swing it by the shop (trashed computer room lol)

[TekTime]

It's possible that your mobo's chipset doesn't like your video card, but I'll do a little research to see if that might be the case....
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[trufort13]

Originally Posted by darkwade

I don't know why it would crash like that!
well if you live in central Maine you could swing it by the shop (trashed computer room lol)

You're a tad out of the way from me in the UK, but thanks for the offer.

[trufort13]

Originally Posted by TekTime

It's possible that your mobo's chipset doesn't like your video card, but I'll do a little research to see if that might be the case....
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I made some inquires regarding that possibility before I bought and I was asssured by the MOBO seller that any PCI-e card would be ok, but if you can tell me different I'd be most obliged. I found nothing about this on the gigabyte website.

It has crossed my mind that may have a duff (bad) card, but I suppose that's always the suspicion of last resort.

If I have not thanked everyone who has replied so far may I do so now, having a problem shared is quite a relief. Thanks.

[trufort13]

Deleted drivers etc, no prob this time. Removed card. Reinstalled card, drivers etc off accompanying disc. All gone well.

Before took 4.5mins to boot up to Windows Welcome, 8mins to complete Desktop icons: now takes 3mins to welcome, 7mins to icons. Firefox screens etc still incomplete, or with blank areas, right click mouse fixs immediate area beneath, renew fixs all, at least on Firefox.

I now get a Verifying DMI pool data screen, but it moves on past it. Sounds like I might have loosened one of HDD connections, they're a little delicate.

System still seems sluggish.

Any thoughts - I hope.

[TekTime]

So..it seems as if the hanging up of your computer is occurring prior to the "Windows..." splash screen that comes up prior to the log-in screen?

If that is the case, the problem sounds likely to be hardware related.
(I say hardware related because in my experience, problems occur when remnants of old drivers and/or software from the old card - remain after uninstalling, or after failure to uninstall the hardware in the device manager. These driver related problems occur in the Windows environment, not while booting)

Also, it is possible that you got a bad card. If possible, try to install a working alternate PCI-E card. Can you do that? (that will narrow out the card as faulty, or an "incompatibility problem", if you experience the same issue with a "known" working card)

[crjdriver]

I am wondering why you would need a new video card for video editing?

Doing video editing is cpu intensive NOT video card intensive. I doubt you would get any improvement in editing/encoding speed by installing a different card.

Next posting you have a 500W pw supply means next to nothing. Post the brand and model # of the psu. When you evaluate a psu, the important items are the amp rating on the 12V rail[s] the temp at which the unit was rated, etc.