zealotcadet
01-11-2003, 03:18 PM
Hi anyone who may come across this message. I have a quite serious problem with my video card (I think). I have a new computer (AMD Athlon 2400+, radeon 9500pro, 512mb of DDR SDRAM, 80gb harddrive, cd+rw, cd/dvd-rom, Windows XP). So anyway, My game I had just gotten (Battlefield 1942) was running choppy, so I obviously got the patch, checked the mainboard settings, and so on... but it was still runing a little bit choppy. So I went to madonion.com and downloaded 3dmark. When I ran the benchmark test the first time, everything went fine and i scored 11630 3d points. Then I downloaded a program called Sisoft Sandra, and ran the performance tune-up wizard, it noticed that I did not have an interrupt assigned to my video card. So I restarted and went into the bios setup and looked for how to assign an interupt to the video card, but with no success. So I went into windows and ran the benchmark test in 3dmark to see what areas specifically my card was having bad performance in. Well when I ran it, the first few tests went fine, but then, all of the sudden, the whole screen locked up. No BSOD, no response to any key command, no response to ctrl+alt+delete. so I manually restarted the computer with the restart button. When the Windows logon screen appeared, the screen was totaly messed up, it looked like in some areas that every other row of pixles were black, and some areas every other coloumn was black. SO then I logged in, when I logged an error dialog box popped up saying that there was something wrong with the bus for the video card. So I thought that the drivers for the video card were bad, so I somehow managed to fond, and uninstall the drivers using add/remove programs program, And restarted, reloaded, restarted, and when windows came up, the scren was again just like it was before. So I restarted and went into the BIOS, everything seemed to be the same. So I exited, logged into windows, and lo-and-behold, the screen looked normal. "How could this be?", I thought. So I checked the display setting and clicked the advanced button and looked at the SMARTGART tab. It had set my agp setting to off because it had run a test on the video card and found nothing to support 3d graphics, so it set it to off. SO, here I am with a video card I think is broken, not being able to play any games that require a 3D video card, and having wasted 10 minutes of your time. If anyone has even the slightest clue how to fix it, It would be very helpful. Thanks.