Help!! Problems with my graphics card and motherboard

Lunatyck

Hey guys,

I got a Pavilion a545c (ya i know, bear with me) and i just bought myself a x1650 PRO radeon graphics card in early december, the problem is i cant get it to work.. The mother board that i have is "ASUS A7V8X-LA" .At first i thought it was maybe because i had a Geforce 2 card installed so i formatted my disk and reinstalled windows yesterday hoping it would work. After installing the new ATI catylist 8.1 , i still have the same f***ing 3d rendering problems, seems to be a problem with my direct X. When i wrote to ATI support they said that its probably a motherboard problem? The graphics card is an AGP and i have only 1 slot, the other 3 are PCI. Here is the list of errors that i get when i do the directx test when i run dxdiag.

"Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x80004005 (Generic failure) "
Direct3D 8 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8876086c (error code) "
Direct3D 9 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8876086c (error code)"

If someone needs the whole dxdiag report i can send the .txt if this isnt enough.

Hopefully you guys can be of some help, kinda bummed that i have 180$ sitting in my comp that i cant use to play games like entropia universe.

Thanks in advance,
Konrad

BlueMak

the x1650 pro cards are still at 180? ouch!

You have tried to download and install the latest Direct X version, right?
I assume you use Windows XP?
Is the GF2 intengrated or just AGP? If the first, make sure you have disabled it in the BIOS. If it is AGP or PCI, make sure you have removed it from the system. (I know...)

Also, after re installing Windows, did you first update Windows from Microsoft?

Lunatyck

Hey,

Yes i do have windows xp .. but i have windows xp tweak so its not a legit xp, but my own. The GF2 was AGP that i popped out and havent installed any drivers for it. As for the update, no i havent updated my windows from microsoft but i do have SP2 and i have installed DX9. Any ideas? =/

BlueMak

I am sorry but I am not even going to try to help someone that hasn't paid for his OS. Good luck.

Methious

You might consider buying your operating system. The Hp Pavilion should have a copy of it on a hidden partition for restoring the legal operating system. Short of that contact HP and they'll send you a restore disk for like $20 bucks comes in 3 days.

Lunatyck

I have the recovery disk.. but the features of this xp that i have installed are alot better than dealing with all the crap that comes pre-installed with the hp boot up disks..

Lunatyck

oh and i tried to install this graphics card when it was running on my hp provided windows xp, same errors.

Lunatyck

I resolved the problem, if anyone else has the problem i had , simply uninstall the latest ATI drivers and download the 7.4 display driver only. apparently the x1600 series have some stability issues with the newer drivers so i had to use older drivers but it works.