hey everyone,
i'm looking for some help
i recently bought a radeon 9800 pro, installed it into my g4 1ghz 1g ram
at first the system picked it up but didn't see the card as it should of, i think it picked it up as a generic card that didn't support core image and whatnot
so i installed ati drivers and rebooted and bam, didn't recognize the card anymore, had to boot into os 9 (which saw it but can't go back to 256 colours another story all together) and save what info i could so i could reformat
reformatted and everything worked great, pickup the card as a 9800, core image supported and all the bells and whistles
my problem started when i installed diablo 2
now i'm getting randomly coloured pixels all over the place, doesn't matter whats showing on the screen, as long as it's not moving
so movies and games work, but one the desktop is shown it starts going crazy
i'm scared to install anything ati to try and fix the prob as i don't want to reformat again
i think i might try to back up through os9 again and play with ati, but i'm looking for alternatives
the REALLY odd this is it's not my screen, it's definitely software related as when i take a screen shot i see the wrong coloured pixels in the snapshot, i'll try to post a shot later
any help is appreciated
i'm looking for some help
i recently bought a radeon 9800 pro, installed it into my g4 1ghz 1g ram
at first the system picked it up but didn't see the card as it should of, i think it picked it up as a generic card that didn't support core image and whatnot
so i installed ati drivers and rebooted and bam, didn't recognize the card anymore, had to boot into os 9 (which saw it but can't go back to 256 colours another story all together) and save what info i could so i could reformat
reformatted and everything worked great, pickup the card as a 9800, core image supported and all the bells and whistles
my problem started when i installed diablo 2
now i'm getting randomly coloured pixels all over the place, doesn't matter whats showing on the screen, as long as it's not moving
so movies and games work, but one the desktop is shown it starts going crazy
i'm scared to install anything ati to try and fix the prob as i don't want to reformat again
i think i might try to back up through os9 again and play with ati, but i'm looking for alternatives
the REALLY odd this is it's not my screen, it's definitely software related as when i take a screen shot i see the wrong coloured pixels in the snapshot, i'll try to post a shot later
any help is appreciated