Installing a graphics card

defanatic · Post by **defanatic** » 2008-05-05 12:17pm

Howdy SDN

I am currently attempting to install a graphics card, and it seems to be alot more difficult than I thought. It is a second hand Radeon X1950 Pro, AGP.

First, I don't have the drivers disk.

So, I plugged all the bits in (the AGP port, and the two power bits), and started up my computer. I could not install any drivers for it, even though windows XP detects it. The installer kept saying that I had not properly installed the hardware.

So I checked this and that, and downloaded some more stuff, and tried that, but the software seems quite adamant that I don't have the card plugged in.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2008-05-05 12:54pm

I've heard that the AGP version of X1950 is basically unsupported by Catalyst drivers and you need the ones that came from the CD. Try to find someone who has those.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-05-05 01:30pm

Also, the ATI Catalyst drivers require you to get .NET installed. Just something else to add to the checklist.

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2008-05-05 02:17pm

I've done a quick bit of Googling; it looks like ATI broke the AGP driver a few Catalyst versions back and have decided that the issue isn't worth fixing. The unofficial Omega Drivers include a fix of sorts for it, and don't require .NET... might be worth trying out.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-05-05 05:36pm

DaveJB wrote:I've done a quick bit of Googling; it looks like ATI broke the AGP driver a few Catalyst versions back and have decided that the issue isn't worth fixing. The unofficial Omega Drivers include a fix of sorts for it, and don't require .NET... might be worth trying out.

Or you could simply get an old driver.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2008-05-05 06:33pm

There is an ATI patch for each recent revision of the driver to fix AGP. However, if I recall correctly the problem doesn't prevent you from actually installing the driver; it makes it fail to work properly after installation. .NET wouldn't be the problem either, since the ATI driver itself does not require it, only the optional Catalyst Control Center program.

My suggestion is to go to guru3d.com, download Driver Cleaner, and purge all preexisting drivers. Use ATI / nvidia / intel / whatever manufacturer you had before as the cleaning filter. Then reinstall the newest ATI driver.