So yeah, I bought an ATi Radeon 9600 Pro video card, and it's a pile of crap. Everytime I try to start up a game, it freezes my computer. Sometimes, it just randomly defaults my display setting to the lowest possible, and says that Windows recovered from a serious device error, and that it's caused by device drivers. Also, whenever I connect my LCD using the DVI cable, my computer won't even perform a POST (although that might be a BIOS problem :dunno: )

the worst part is that ATi customer service sucks! There support number is a 900 number and they charge you ~$2.50 a minute. :down: and they make it difficult to find out how to send them an e-mail, and when you do, they send you a response that seems automated and pretty general. :madfawk:

 

:thumbsup: to nvidia chipsets

 

I've heard about some problems with ATI radeon with 128mb or more of memory.

such as you described, no POST, etc. Is there anything built into the card that you can disable? I know their older 8xxx series had a problem with the 1394 controller. When you disabled that the system boots fine.

 

the thing is, ATI currently has the best cards, but their drivers suck. I read that they had been getting better, but apparently not. :down:
my Geforce2 MX400 still works fine.

 

there's nothing extra on the card like that.

 

ati is teh suck

 

My ati card is fine:fawk:

 

128 MB radeon 8500 rocks, i've always been impressed with the quality and performance of ati products

 

I'll buy it off you, or trade you for my 32 mb nvidia geforce 2

 

:werd: :woowoo: My 9600 PRO installed fine, and took to a little overclocking with the help of Rage3D :bigok: