Because the components on display card is fixed, it is totally unnecessary for regularly updating BIOS of display card. Mainboard may need update BIOS for updating compatibility function for new CPU, DRAM, peripheral devices, and etc. Display card BIOS update is required only for bug fixing or other special case. It happen rarely. Please note, we will not suggest user update BIOS with image files that are available on Internet. It is very possible that those image files are not compatible with your display card at all and your display card may not work any more after updating. You may void the warranty of display card at the same time.

this status might happen because the version of VGA driver is too old for WinXP SP2 , please update the VGA driver to newest version , you could download the newest driver file from our Tul/ATi's website .

This issue may cause by Microsoft Windows allocate less AGP resource than minimum requirement of ATI display driver. Please refer to the information and solution in ATI official webpage. http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html

please download this file 'direcpll.dll' from this link : ftp://driver1.cptech.com.tw/driver/3dmark03/direcpll.dll this newest file have include needed support for X800XT PCIE vga card , and please replace the earlier file in this directory -- '\windows\system32\futuremark\msc\' . more information could be found in this link : http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4523.html

This behavior result in limitation of TV resolution and compressed S-Video (Composite) format. The resolution for generic TV is much lower than generic computer monitor. (NTSC (525 horizontal scan lines)/ PAL (625 horizontal scan lines) compare to computer frequently using resolution 1024x768 (768 horizontal scan lines)) And, S-Video interface is a analog compress format. Composite is a further compress format base on S-Video interface (Y and C signal of S-Video is compress into one signal of Composite ). So, when you try to view computer display on generic TV. The image quality will suffer from lower resolution of TV and signal loss via compressed signal interface. The only advantage for TV output is generic TV screen size is much bigger than generic computer display device.

please check this website for newest update / download link of ATi Linux driver : http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html ATi Linux driver FAQ : http://www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html

Please refer to http://mirror.ati.com/products/catalyst/SMARTGART-White-Paper-V2.pdf And there is a FAQ for this utility. http://mirror.ati.com/products/catalyst/SMARTGART-FAQ.pdf

when user enable this function , ATi VGA driver will check and make sure the VPU could be recover if it have stop work for unknown reason. ATI provide a white paper for VPU recover utility. Please refer to PDF file http://mirror.ati.com/products/catalyst/VPU_OVERVIEW.pdf

please check follow setting step by step : driver: please update VGA driver to newest version from our/ATi's website , and you need to remove all other VGA driver in 'add/remove program' before you update VGA driver . power supply : please make sure that your power supply's spec. for 300W output , because these VGA card series need a stable power out for run a 3D software in heavy load . if possible , please do not share the power cable of the vga card with other device , because some time the VGA card will unstable because this device share the power . for AGP series VGA card : setting change : please disable 'fastwrite' feature in section 'smartgart' of ATi advanced display properities . in some case , please try to change the AGP speed from 8X to 4X .

please understand for , the first release of ATi driver have include a strange status , it will detect both Radeon 9600 pro/ radeon 9600 as 'Radeon 9600 pro' and show this information in display properities (XT/SE chipset not exist at that time) . so they change the name (showing on display properities) of radeon 9600 series chipset (PRO/non PRO/SE) to Radeon 9600 'Series' .

please check follow website for needed update from microsoft : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825116 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8dfd1b6d-e177-4a0e-91d0-b4310675b02b&displaylang=en this status happen because there are some conflict between DirectX9.0B and your TV software .

this status happen because the new PCI VGA card have some PCI resource conflict with on-board VGA device/other on-board device , so , please check follow point : bios setup : please make sure the the booting device setting in bios setup of mainboard have been change to PCI device from on board VGA . PCI slot : please try to install the PCI vga card to another PCI slot , some time the PCI vga card could only work in 1 PCI slot for a mianboard with 3~5 PCI slot . m/b bios update : we also suggest to update mainboard BIOS, new BIOS may solve PCI resource allocate issue.

please check follow setting step by step : driver: please update VGA driver to newest version from our/ATi's website , and you need to remove all other VGA driver in 'add/remove program' before you update VGA driver . setting change : please disable 'fastwrite' feature in section 'smartgart' of aTi advanced display properities . in some case , please try to change the AGP speed from 8X to 4X . special way : in some case , user have resolve this status by change AGP voltage from 1.5V to 1.6V , please make sure that your mainboard have supported this function .

there are some different model of the R9600XT VGA card : for some earlier series : it have not include needed design for overdrive feature. for these model , we have used the memory with higher speed then ATi recommand , and make the VGA card could running as fast as a R9600XT VGA card with over driver feature . newest release series : based on new design of Radeon 9600XT VGA card , this model have include needed circuit fo overdrive feature , if this feature have not show up still , please update VGA driver to newest version .

this status happen because some BIOS setting of mainboard could not work with a vga card when video memory size = 256MB, so , please recover this status by follow step : goto bios setup screen of mianboard , and find/change the setting of 'AGP aperture memory size' to 128MB .

please enable the DMA mode of your harddisk in device manager , please use mouse right click the my computer , then select your harddisk --- setting ----select DMA -----select ok to save setting .

please change both bios setting of maiboard and jumper setting of the VGA to 2x mode , because there are some via 4x mainboard could not driver this vga card in AGP 4x mode .

this may happen because the default setting of this VGA card is setting to AGP 4x mode ,so please change the jumper setting of the vga card to agp 2x mode by this way : for CVR3 / CVR3S ver 1.0 agp 2x mode : JP2 open , JP1 2-3 short agp 4x mode : JP2 short , JP1 1-2 short (default setting)

please download and update a newer driver in our website ,this future have support in newer driver.

this my happen because your mainboard or power supply maybe could not support enough power to your vga card , so make your system unstable when you start a 3d program , exspecially for a system with high speed cpu (like athlon 700 or higher), our suggess is change a power supply with bigger wattage .

please update the BIOS and agp driver of your mainboard , and disable the USB support of your mainboard , this will make your system running more stable with the nvidia vga card.

This may happen because the driver of your old 3d vga card have some conflict with new driver , please remove both driver ,and install the new driver again .

please goto the Microsofts website , and download and install a win 2000 update file for this issue . you could find the information by follow way : please goto this website -- http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?ln=en-us then select win2000 in section 1 , and enter Q261601 in section 3 , and click go , the search result will show up and you could see the information in Q261601 . and you could download correct update file for your win2000.

please enable the DMA function of your DVD-ROM in device manager , you could use mouse cursor right click mycomputer ,select properities,select CDROM-----your DVD ROM ---setting , then enable DMA mode and reboot your system .

if you need to use tv-out feature , please let your vga card detect your tv-set at first ,so please connect your tv-set to system and power on it at first ,then power on your system , let system could detect your tv-set have inserted ,then you could change the output device setting in the display properities .

please make sure that you have remove the driver of your old vga card in "add/removeprogram",especailly for the vga card with 3d accleterate future . and please update the bios and agp driver (if need) of your mainboard to newest version .