KT4 Ultra and Radeon 9100

I'm having a problem with a new KT4 Ultra board. It was a "Returned
to Service" board at newegg.com. It seems to work, but my ATI Radeon
9100 won't work at all. I even get horizontal lines on the screen
when accessing the system bios. I can only boot to safe mode or sytem
just hangs with black screen when trying to boot to desktop. I'm using
WIN98SE. Yet when I put my older 32 meg TNT2 AGP card in, everything
works fine. So I don't think it is a board problem.

Rich Anton <> wrote:
>I'm having a problem with a new KT4 Ultra board. It was a "Returned
>to Service" board at newegg.com. It seems to work, but my ATI Radeon
>9100 won't work at all. I even get horizontal lines on the screen
>when accessing the system bios. I can only boot to safe mode or sytem
>just hangs with black screen when trying to boot to desktop. I'm using
>WIN98SE. Yet when I put my older 32 meg TNT2 AGP card in, everything
>works fine. So I don't think it is a board problem.

I've had lots of problems with Radeon cards and the KT4 motherboard.
You'll probably find that neither is faulty, there's just an
incompatibility between them. Having said that, it's worth trying the
video card in a different motherboard and another Radeon in your board
to find out if either is in fact faulty.

TTFN,

Dave
--
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary,
and those who don't.

Unfortunately, I tries an NVIDIA TNT2 Pro also, and I can boot to safe
mode, but as soon as I try to boot normal, it will either not load
driver properly, or the board just dies as soon as it tries to go to
the video screen. The board must be bad.

Warning. Don't buy Newegg.com "Returned to Service" boards. I
gambled and lost. Now its RMA time and extra costs.

David Derrick <> wrote in message news:<8Xi5r8CKALA$>...
> Rich Anton <> wrote:
> >I'm having a problem with a new KT4 Ultra board. It was a "Returned
> >to Service" board at newegg.com. It seems to work, but my ATI Radeon
> >9100 won't work at all. I even get horizontal lines on the screen
> >when accessing the system bios. I can only boot to safe mode or sytem
> >just hangs with black screen when trying to boot to desktop. I'm using
> >WIN98SE. Yet when I put my older 32 meg TNT2 AGP card in, everything
> >works fine. So I don't think it is a board problem.
>
> I've had lots of problems with Radeon cards and the KT4 motherboard.
> You'll probably find that neither is faulty, there's just an
> incompatibility between them. Having said that, it's worth trying the
> video card in a different motherboard and another Radeon in your board
> to find out if either is in fact faulty.
>
> TTFN,
>
> Dave

Rich Anton <> wrote:
>Unfortunately, I tries an NVIDIA TNT2 Pro also, and I can boot to safe
>mode, but as soon as I try to boot normal, it will either not load
>driver properly, or the board just dies as soon as it tries to go to
>the video screen. The board must be bad.

Yep, I agree. nVidia based cards are usually rock solid with that
motherboard

Regards,

Dave
--
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary,
and those who don't.