After my Gainward Ti4200 died the other day I decided to buy a cheap but good performing replacement to use while I wait for 28days (grump) for my Gainward to be replaced. I decided to go with ATI for a change as the first replacement I bought which was an Nvidia Geforce 4 mx440 was showing black dots all over the screen. Anyway I got this Powercolor Radeon 9100 and it won't work with my NF7-S @200fsb. Whenever I have my board running at say 200x10 I get the most awful distortion of graphics when in 3D games and then it restarts. As I am not overclocking the agp bus at all I'm a bit worried I have yet another faulty card. The strange thing is that It runs fine when I set the board up @166fsb. it never has a problem. Whats this all about?
The other thing that is p*ssing me off is the fact that whatever the speed of my board I can't get any of the Catalyst drivers to work. I've tried them all and I get the same problem as I get at 166fsb with the drivers that do work, if you know what I mean.
To simplify:
default drivers @166fsb agp@66 = fine and dandy
default drivers @200fsb agp@66 = distortion + crash
catalyst drivers @166fsb agp@66 = distortion + crash
catalyst drivers @200fsb agp@66 = distortion + crash
I've tried catalyst drivers 3.0a, 3.1 and 3.2 and always the same result.
anyone got any ideas, is this grounds for an RMA?
parkie
The other thing that is p*ssing me off is the fact that whatever the speed of my board I can't get any of the Catalyst drivers to work. I've tried them all and I get the same problem as I get at 166fsb with the drivers that do work, if you know what I mean.
To simplify:
default drivers @166fsb agp@66 = fine and dandy
default drivers @200fsb agp@66 = distortion + crash
catalyst drivers @166fsb agp@66 = distortion + crash
catalyst drivers @200fsb agp@66 = distortion + crash
I've tried catalyst drivers 3.0a, 3.1 and 3.2 and always the same result.
anyone got any ideas, is this grounds for an RMA?
parkie