A8V Graphics Card

I tried upgrading my graphics card to a Radeon HD 2600XT AGP and the
printing to the display was corrupt. For example, if I tried scrolling a
web page quickly, the writing would smear.

To my dismay, the drivers are not windows qualified either.

I looked at the comments on newegg for the agp video cards, and basically,
they all seem to suck, drivers are bad, etc.

I tried the original drivers on the cd, the updated drivers from visiontek,
the hotfix drivers, but the results are the same, the writing will smear
when scrolling a page quickly.

Is anyone using a stable agp card with their a8v?

My specs are:

win xp
amd x2 4400
2 gig ram

Thanks.

--g

I have a little more info:

1. I downloaded the latest ATI CCC, version 8.x, which is XP certified. I
tried the card again but got the same results, artifacts on the screen, text
smearing.

2. I also checked the power, my power supply is 500W. With my old card, my
computer pulls about 140 watts, with the 2600XT, my computer pulled about
160 watts.

I guess my main question is, of those that have an A8V, what is the fastest
video card that runs reliably on it?

--g

The fastest card that I ran on my A8V Deluxe used an nVidia 6800GT chipset.
That was the latest AGP card I bought.

What was your old card? Are you running the latest Via chipset drivers? I
doubt that it's possible to have an AGP graphics card that is too fast for
the A8V.

Good luck.

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"geoff" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:4SK8k.86429$tn2.23120@fe07.news.easynews.com. ..
>I have a little more info:
>
> 1. I downloaded the latest ATI CCC, version 8.x, which is XP certified.
> I tried the card again but got the same results, artifacts on the screen,
> text smearing.
>
> 2. I also checked the power, my power supply is 500W. With my old card,
> my computer pulls about 140 watts, with the 2600XT, my computer pulled
> about 160 watts.
>
> I guess my main question is, of those that have an A8V, what is the
> fastest video card that runs reliably on it?
>
> --g
>
>

I currently have a Sapphire RADEON X1600 PRO.

With nvidia, their software will let me rotate the display?

Thanks.

--g