Hi, just got and installed today a Refurbished Sapphire Radeon 9700 PRO. It's working fine, and installed easy. It's a big improvement over my old GeForce3 Ti200 card. I just have a few questions about the 9700 PRO, the card itself looks just like ATI's version, I cannot find Sapphire printed on it anywhere.
I have had not one problem with it so far, ( what would be a good way to test it ) to see if there is anything wrong with it, I have less then 15 days to return it for a refund or exchange.
It does not have a BIOS display of itself when booting up, is this the same with ATI 9700 PRO's ?
How I installed it
- Flashed the BIOS - Updated Motherboard Drivers - uninstalled NVIDIA Display Drivers - Removed Display Adapter from within Device Manager - Used Drive Cleaner (well I think it did something, but I'm not sure it did anything, within safe mode) - Removed old card / Installed new card - Installed CATALYST 4.3 Driver - Installed CATALYST Control Panel.
System Spec
Asus A7N8X Deluxe, rev 2.00, BIOS 1007 (was 1003), Nforce2 drivers 3.13 (in part)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
768 MB RAM PC2700
Windows XP Home, with SP1
A side note on the boot screens, after flashing the BIOS the boot screen go by very very fast now, I can't read anything.
I need to test this card, because I have now less then 11 days left now to return it if it's bad.
One last thing, I got it at NewEgg.com
PS I think I got very lucky, but I want to be sure.
Thank you
Jim
I have had not one problem with it so far, ( what would be a good way to test it ) to see if there is anything wrong with it, I have less then 15 days to return it for a refund or exchange.
It does not have a BIOS display of itself when booting up, is this the same with ATI 9700 PRO's ?
How I installed it
- Flashed the BIOS - Updated Motherboard Drivers - uninstalled NVIDIA Display Drivers - Removed Display Adapter from within Device Manager - Used Drive Cleaner (well I think it did something, but I'm not sure it did anything, within safe mode) - Removed old card / Installed new card - Installed CATALYST 4.3 Driver - Installed CATALYST Control Panel.
System Spec
Asus A7N8X Deluxe, rev 2.00, BIOS 1007 (was 1003), Nforce2 drivers 3.13 (in part)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
768 MB RAM PC2700
Windows XP Home, with SP1
A side note on the boot screens, after flashing the BIOS the boot screen go by very very fast now, I can't read anything.
I need to test this card, because I have now less then 11 days left now to return it if it's bad.
One last thing, I got it at NewEgg.com
PS I think I got very lucky, but I want to be sure.
Thank you
Jim