Search found 9 matches

by frustrated_uk
Wed May 20, 2009 2:41 am
Forum: AMD Radeon and FirePro Forum
Topic: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879
Replies: 13
Views: 6835

Re: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879

I have decided to give in and have returned the card for a full refund and replaced it with an older, X1650 Pro 512Mb card - which installed fine and is working great. It's also pushed my Vista experience 3D score from 4.0 to 4.9, which is good enough for this rig! I still believe that the problem l...
by frustrated_uk
Mon May 18, 2009 4:44 pm
Forum: AMD Motherboard Forum
Topic: MSI AmethystM (MS-7184) Help
Replies: 4
Views: 7796

Re: MSI AmethystM (MS-7184) Help

I'd like to get it to work, if possible, so, no, I still have it!

No device conflicts and, according to the resource monitor, nothing in particular is occupying the processor!

Frustrated. :axe:
by frustrated_uk
Mon May 18, 2009 11:36 am
Forum: AMD Motherboard Forum
Topic: MSI AmethystM (MS-7184) Help
Replies: 4
Views: 7796

MSI AmethystM (MS-7184) Help

My Compaq computer has this board (although MSI apparently disown it!) which has a Radeon XPress 200 chipset and was delivered with an ATI X1300 Pro graphics card. I want to upgrade this, however, and bought a Sapphire HD-4770 and installed it into the PCI-E x16 slot (the card is 2.0). However, whil...
by frustrated_uk
Sun May 17, 2009 8:54 am
Forum: AMD Radeon and FirePro Forum
Topic: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879
Replies: 13
Views: 6835

Re: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879

By RMA I assume you mean send it back for a replacement? I'm also not sure that this would solve the problem but I'm thinking that, having now used Driver Cleaner to remove the X1300 before yet again reinstalling the HD 4770 that I'm left with little alternative... As to PSU - I upgraded to a 550W C...
by frustrated_uk
Sat May 16, 2009 12:36 pm
Forum: AMD Radeon and FirePro Forum
Topic: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879
Replies: 13
Views: 6835

Re: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879

Well - just tried that but the same result - significant slow-down and sound corruption, too (which I didn't mention before) with Core2 running 100% and Core1 next to idle.

What next?

Frustrated. :axe:
by frustrated_uk
Sat May 16, 2009 12:03 pm
Forum: AMD Radeon and FirePro Forum
Topic: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879
Replies: 13
Views: 6835

Re: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879

I'll admit that I didn't uninstall the Catalyst drivers but I did uninstall the X1300 from the device manager... which is more than most! I then re-installed the Catalyst drivers to update the existing - so, now, I'll uninstall both the X1300 and the Catalyst driver and clean up afterwards before tr...
by frustrated_uk
Sat May 16, 2009 11:00 am
Forum: AMD Radeon and FirePro Forum
Topic: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879
Replies: 13
Views: 6835

Re: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879

Thanks for the posts so far. It's not a virus - putting my X1300 back calms the system back down to the usual tick-over (and I'm running Kaspersky so I should be protected!). Regarding the BIOS, I'm running v3.48 and can't find any updates, either on the MSI site or the HP site. Is there anywhere el...
by frustrated_uk
Sat May 16, 2009 3:12 am
Forum: AMD Radeon and FirePro Forum
Topic: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879
Replies: 13
Views: 6835

Re: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879

It actually ATI Radeon XPress 200! Even more reasons why it should work, rather than not!

Frustrated :axe:
by frustrated_uk
Sat May 16, 2009 2:27 am
Forum: AMD Radeon and FirePro Forum
Topic: HD 4770 in Compaq 1879
Replies: 13
Views: 6835

HD 4770 in Compaq 1879

I've just replaced my pre-existing X1300 card with a shiny new HD 4770 and am having severe doubts as the speed of my screen updates has halved! (Catalyst version 9.4). To achieve the upgrade I also had to upgrade my PSU (it was only 300W, yet the the MSI MS-7184 motherboard states it requires a min...