ATI Radeon 9500 Boot-up Problems
I am helping a friend install a new ATI Radeon 9500 Pro into his rather older PC - a 750mhz AMD Athlon. This PC has an MSI K7 Pro Motherboard and 512mb ram and a 2x AGP slot and a 300watt power supply.
I am helping a friend install a new ATI Radeon 9500 Pro into his rather older PC - a 750mhz AMD Athlon. This PC has an MSI K7 Pro Motherboard and 512mb ram and a 2x AGP slot and a 300watt power supply.
When the PC boots we can barely read any bios posts, and multicolored blocks are all over the screen. Once windows comes up though the screen looks fine. I am concerned about the screwed up looking boot. Sometimes when windows comes up we get an error saying "error - hal.dll needs to be reinstalled" or something like that. We have updated the bios but still the problem exists and we have reinstalled the hal.dll
Is this video card too much for this system?
Your opinions would be appreciated.
When the PC boots we can barely read any bios posts, and multicolored blocks are all over the screen. Once windows comes up though the screen looks fine. I am concerned about the screwed up looking boot. Sometimes when windows comes up we get an error saying "error - hal.dll needs to be reinstalled" or something like that. We have updated the bios but still the problem exists and we have reinstalled the hal.dll
Is this video card too much for this system?
Your opinions would be appreciated.
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Did you try to update the BIOS? And also which windows are u using?
I reckon u've jumped the gun. You should try the card in another machine and determine if the card is defective.
is your power supply 300watt?
if not it proberly cant handle the card.
they take up so much power these new graphics chips..
worth trying.
if not it proberly cant handle the card.
they take up so much power these new graphics chips..
worth trying.
