[swankx]

Hey all, just thought I'd share a bit of insight for anyone fighting with video card issues on the Asus A7V333.

After spending days installing and reinstalling drivers (ATI and Omega/Plutonium), flashing my ATI Radeon 8500 128MB with every bios version I could lay my hands on from 1.009 to 7009 and reading an ungodly number of posts about how others had fixed their radeon issues, I gave up. No matter what combination I tried, my machine would totally freeze up in under 3 minutes. I eventually got sick of fighting with the Radeon and exchanged it for a PNY Verto Ti4200 Geforce4 card.

Unfortunately, even this card was crashing inexplicably. I was running WinXP and I had just done a fresh install, and the only thing I installed before the card's drivers was the latest Via 4-in-1 drivers off of viaarena.com. As far as I can tell, this is what was causing any video card I put in the machine to crash in 3d mode. Specifically, the AGP portion of the 4-in-1 drivers does NOT work properly on my system and when I didn't install that driver, my PNY card worked flawlessly.

I looked a little closer at the drivers posted on Asus' site for the A7V333, and the version of the Via 4-in-1 drivers was only 4.37V and it only included the PCI/IDE and Via Inf portions of the install. I can only assume the AGP driver doesn't work properly with this board and probably shouldn't be installed.

[Impulse]

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[fubarian416]

I have an A7V333 with a Radeon 8500 128MB and have no such problems. I would be more inclined to believe you have problems with your RAM settings or a similar config problem. Try looking at http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com for help with the A7V333.

[DaSnIpE]

Ditch the A7V333, it worked fine till it failed on me.

[kinetic]

I have an Asus A7V333 and an ATI Radeon 8500 64Mb retail and have had no graphics issues at all. The only problem I had however was with the onboard C-Media sound but I cheated and used my Sonic Fury instead!

[Raider1]

Why does it seem latley via is really having problums with there chipsets , guess they cant keep up with the times , next board im getting is going to be eather intel or sis based board.