any1 with asus A7M266 and 8500?

[flbrt]

my question is,
-Who has a stable A7M266 with a retail 8500?
-did anyone ever recieve a 8500 which runs as expected for
normal opperation, but has weid reactions running games or
3dMark2001?
-anyone with that, did a replacement card or MB fix the problem?

Im gonna try to do some screen caps to show everyone exactly what Im talking about... and call ATI tech support on monday.
I hope I dont have to do my first RMA to newegg

[BobyJo]

Yes I have an ASUS A7M266 and yes I have had my R8500 retail vid card in it.
I had no problems with the system.
I did go back to the 8KHA+ Epox as soon as I received the replacement. I used this combo for a couple of weeks. Works great. I have a XP1800+, 512mb Crucial PC2100, Bios 1006, looks about the same as yours.
If you are having problems. Did you do a virgin install of fhe R8500 drivers? What vid card did you have before the Radeon? Sounds as if you did not purge all the reminants of a vid card from the registry before installing the R8500.

[flbrt]

thank you for the reply bobyjo, I called ATI tech support again and they said since the card worked in another system and a radeon7000 works in my system, its probably a finiky BIOS setting, or bad bios in the radeon8500. He is sending me a more comprehensive list of BIOS settings for my moterboard with the 8500(dont worry, I'll post it here as we'll). He said last resort that a newer or older velease of the 8500(w/different bios might solve the problem) otherwise, I might have to be a slave to nvidia

By the way, I did do a format and fresh install of win98,2000,and XP with just the video card in the system. same thing

[Double Zee]

Try disabling FAST WRITES in your bios?

[BobyJo]

It appears that you have done about everything and the card does not work.

RMA the sucker and get another one. I RMA'ed two of them before I got one that will perform the way I want it to. Runs 3dMark2201, The benchmark 2002, all games with no problems of any kind. RTCW,MOHAA,MaxPayne and a lot of others.
Believe me there is a Radeon 8500 that will work on the 8KHA+ systems. There have been several posts on several forums about such. Again there are people that have problems.

The venders don't care about the RMA's, they get credit for a unit sold even if it is a RMA.

[flbrt]

thanks again bobyJo... she's bein shipped back tomorrow.