The thing ran just fine to be honest with you. I downloaded the driver from the ATI website under legacy software support structure. It's just that I would assume that if the video card was going bad, that it would go bad be it under it's own driver or in any video mode. Now I can't seem to keep it in windows driver that lets it stay stable. Windows always puts another driver on it during normal boot up to make it slow down again.
Right now I found an old GeForce Ti4200 64MB AGP card, and let windows just put its own standard VGA driver into it. Its running smooth despite the graphical look not being too smooth and monitor resolution not supported. It stays at 1024x768. At least it's usable for the moment. I still would like to find a video card, if that is indeed the problem, that was equivalent to the previous or better. Hopefully it was just the card. I don't have the parts laying around I used to years ago to swap in and out to test machines. Ahh the good ole days! On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:06 AM, maccrawj <maccr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The 9800 is actually supported under Windows 7? I though it got lumped in > with the rest of the pre-directX 10 stuff as no longer supported (at all) by > CCC above 6.5? > > Just my $.02, but I'll bet it's running in VGA compatibility mode and that's > all it will ever do. > > > > On 5/22/2010 6:29 PM, GPL wrote: >> >> Got this older machine we use at the house thats a P4 3.2 with a >> 9800XT ati card. Been running windows 7 on it. Last two weeks it's >> been OK with its use. >> >> Today it seems the desktop is very slow, goes dark screen, waits to >> come back online with the working hour glass type circle spinning, >> seems to just really hang up but nothing really comes of it to go back >> into use. Clicking icons is delayed, that sort of thing. >> >> If I load up in safe mode, safe mode w/ networking, or load up >> normally by removing the 9800XT from the device manager and restarting >> the PC it seems to run normally. Other than the resolution being less >> than what the native mode of the monitor is it seems to work OK. >> >> Tried reinstalling the ATI driver but it still hangs. Seems to only >> operate now with no driver, or default windows settings. >> >> Couple of times I see a message pop up that says "The display driver >> has stopped responding but has recovered" type of thing. >> >> Can the card finally be going bad, not being able to handle the full >> driver? It sort of blinks black screen to desktop every once in a >> while as I type this looking over at it. >> >
