Connect3D Radeon 9250 Help Needed

[Kelphyr]

This video cards keeps crashing now and then somewhat pretty often. I start Need for Speed Underground 2 Demo, all my graphics settings are set to the lowest. First the menu screen when it loads with the girl on it, I can't see the girl cause its like all in miss placed rectangles. Then when I enter the game, everything seems fine but after a little while of playing the ATI Drivers I've installed say, that my Accelerator crashed, and it either succeed rebooting (rarely) or it says that its switching to application something. Then my game just crashes. Sometimes the game just crashes and my card stop sending signals to my screen so it just turns black and I have to reboot. Thats whenever I try to boost the details in the options.

I have no clue what so ever on what could be the problem. I installed:
http://www.connect3d.com/support/default.htm
Driver Downloads for Connect3d Radeon VGA ,
CATALYST™ Package
[Display,WDM+Control Panel]

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Side note: When I first started my computer I had installed the video card and so my motherboard didn't dectect it had intergrated shared video.

My Specs:
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 / DirectX 9.0c
VisionMan GT3000 Socket 478 Barebone Kit / Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz - 1MB Cache - FSB 800mhz / Motherboard M955 478 Pin / AGP 8x / 512MB DDR400 / 450 Watt Power Supply / Connect3D Radeon 9250 256mb

The help is soo much appreciated.

[doddsy]

the card is a bit lightweight in an otherwise nice pc. but it should probably still cope with your games at low settings.

did you completely remove all old graphics drivers (onboard and ati) before installing the 5.2's and is ypur onboard accelerator completely disabled. i had trouble with conflicts between onboard intel integrated accelerator and a rad 9000.

i'd remove the drivers in add/remove programs. the uninstall the graphics cards (both) in device manager. (you might need to disable the onboard in bios as well)

reboot in safe mode.

run driver cleaner (READ THE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST)

http://www.drivercleaner.net/

remove all lingering traces of ati and onboard drivers.

reboot normally

install ati 5.2 drivers.

reboot to complete installation.

then run your games at a sensible resolution start with 800*600 (nothing higher than 1024*768) start with the settings at low and work up slowly.

if the opportunity arises a card upgrade would not hurt.

[Kelphyr]

I installed the drivers for my video card first, then I installed the motherboard cd drivers that came with it but it didn't detect my onboard shared 64mb video, its working as if it doesn't exist.

I know how to enter bios, I've been there, but I have no clue how to disable onboard video / acceleration things.

so what should I do?
Go look in the bios and tell you what I see?

NOTE:
maybe I can get new motherboard drivers from pcchips.com?

[doddsy]

does the onboard show up in device manager?

if not i wouldn' worry about disabling it otherwise.

but i'd still uninstall and reinstall those 5.2's

which mobo do you have?

[Kelphyr]

no it doesn't show up in device manager. And whats a mobo?


http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Pro...uID=22&LanID=0
Drivers + Bios Upgrades?

[doddsy]

motherboard.



uninstall and reinstall your drivers..................first thing to try if you get any sort of graphics hitches.

if that doesn't work try the 5.1's or older from ati.

the 5.2's will have been optimised for newer cards so you shouldn't lose out by using an older set........

go. try some other drivers.........see what happens.


forget about bios updates unless you are 321% sure that know what you are doing.

[Kelphyr]

Roger that. I'll do that then report back here

[Kelphyr]

Wow that was quick uh.
When I run teh setup for the motherboard driver upgrades it says "The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application." [Close] [Ignore]

Its about 13mb+ so it does not fit on a floppy.

edited.
(tryed to boot it up using the Command Prompt from All Programs -> Accessories without any success.)

PM800 VGA Driver for Windows 2000 \ Windows XP
http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Pro...ailName=Driver

[doddsy]

i dunno.

you don't appear to reading my replies.

so here it goes.......one last time..

try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers for your graphics card and nothing else.

gluck.

[Kelphyr]

Sorry, I misunderstood your replies.

Gonna try that.