re: Radeon 7000 not allowing hardware acceleration
Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6099 messages posted)
It only has the Radeon graphics chip. It isn't made by ATI so you can't use ATI drivers
from the ATI Radeon 7000 as these cutrate manufacturers will NOT enable all the options
in the chip. It's one way they can keep their costs down. Cripple the chips and
sell them cheaper. I don't know about anyone elses Jetway experience but every one
I have come across and tried to get working eventually ended up on the scrap pile.
There are a lot of reasons that hardware acceleration will not work from motherboard
issues (not being fast enough, BIOS/setting issues, memory etc etc), to drivers,
to just a plain defective card.
Either way, you need to use the drivers from Jetway on this one. If the rest of
your machines specs are weak, that can be a big issue for video problems and settings..
Just out of curiousity, what are the specs on your system?? Maybe that will help..
On Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 3:28 pm, steven wrote:
>Hi after research on the net, I have found my radeon was made by jetway. Hence I
>downloaded the drivers from them. I have also tried the drivers from the ati website.
>
>They install perfectly but when I load windows I get a black screen. It appears
to
>crash. If you change the the performance setting ( display properties) to the lowest
>hence there's no hardware acceleration at all i get to the desktop. why? I tried
>different versions of drivers/directx and it still doesn't work.
>
>Because of this when I install the ATI control pannel it doesn't load and says "
>can't initialize as no drivers installed". I've also tried upgrading the bios too.
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