At wit's end ... please try to help me here...

stinkynathan · 01-23-2003, 02:50 AM

OK, i've posted about this before, but i'm having another problem and i don't know of any other forum-type places to go (other than tech support(EVIL(& $3/minute))).

i've been messing with this Sapphire Radeon 9000 pro 128 for like 2 weeks now that i got for christmas. The only fuss i have is the Tv-out. it will output to the TV, but will be EXTREMELY flickery... the weird part is that i have my 6.4" LCD hooked to the composite out on my TV (20" Toshiba flatscreen) and that always displays perfectly. it should also be noted that my dvd player was perfectly viewable using the exact same s-vid connection on the TV.

output was great right when i got back to school from xmas break. at some point it got screwed. i have uninstalled everything i had on my system that was anywhere near video-related. started with the catalyst 2.8 drivers, updated to 3.0 a week ago, and just tried c 2.5 tonite. none have worked except the 2.8 which worked initially. ATI control panel has been reinstalled numerous times.. new directx 9 install with every driver install. have tried every resolution and everything possible..

could it be an NTSC/PAL problem (not very versed in these)????

i would suspect that it was a screwed card, but last week i used system restore to roll my system back to its '1 week ago' state, and the ouput worked great, i just couldn't live with the restore side effects so i had to put it back to its 'normal' state.

this got really long... DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS??? i'm not scared to wipe my XP install , and i think i'm going to go ahead with it at noon tomorrow if no one can think of anything..... o yeah, just fully updated XP with windows update tonite too ... no go....

please tell me this is something stupid i overlooked... i'd like to get back to watching my winamp vis and Divx movies on the screen again

later,
nathan

EDIT: speeling and wow did that get long.....

Alphared · 01-23-2003, 05:02 AM

try installing the latest drivers, and make sure your bios is up to date. There might be some other drivers that are messing it up, check your hardware devices. I have a dell with a tv tunner hooked up to my tv. Worked great till I installed the tv tunner. Didn't get that flicker, but when it reboot I get a black screen. I still haven't found a 100% solution yet. most of the time when I have to reboot, I have to go into safe mode and disable the hardware, then enable it when I get into windows.

try to boot into safe mode and see if it flickers too, if it don't then theres a hardware conflict.

stinkynathan · 01-23-2003, 08:49 AM

the thing i don't understand... is if there really is a hardware conflicted, how it just happened to show up 3 weeks after being installed and working perfectly...

later,
nathan

Charliey · 01-25-2003, 01:08 AM

hmm, the ati drivers are really annoying to try and uninstall them correctly. you need to go to control panel, and uninstall the ATI control panel, and the ATI display drivers, and rename the ATI folder in your C: so that it doesnt automatically reinstall them. then reboot, and it will come up with new hardware found, running in 640x480 x 16 colours, then check in the control panel or display properties to make sure it didnt reinstall the drivers.

when you verify that it hasnt, then run the new driver installation, i think there upto 3.0a now, i dont know if theres a newer one out yet.

in the Displays tab of the drivers, click on the TV output, and just see if theres any settings ther you can change.

or try just increasing the refresh rate, either on the main monitor tab, or the displays tab, in the advanced properties window.

another good forum for pc/computer stuff is forum.pcmech.com

RaZor · 01-28-2003, 02:47 AM

may want to try the hardocp forums, they are very informative about vid cards...www.hardforum.com

i would say it sounds like a refresh rate problem.

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