AGP OR PCI??

[seeknpeace]

Currently I am reactivating a computer whose CPU went out. I had it replaced but just have drug my feet on getting it functional again. I noted in my bios settings that I have a choice of AGP ON Board or PCI for my video setting. I have an older model AMD video card right now, it is a Radeon x850. I plan to upgrade all of this, the card, windows from media ctr xp to windows 7 (maybe), etc. but for now, I cannot get the stupid drivers for the video card to install. When I tried, knowing that Radeon on this older model required complete removal of their software to update to newer drivers (I hate that) when I installed the last legacy vs of drivers for this video card I could only get to a black screen. I could not rectify it so I had to do a system recovery so that I could deal with this. My question is, should this setting in bios be for the AGP On Board or for PCI? It is set at PCI and I wonder if that is the problem. Thx.

 

[seeknpeace]

I was thinking about what you said earlier.



Not sure why, but your disc is not working properly. If you had the right driver, it should say that your primary display adapter is X850 on AGP bus.
What's odd here is that your TV card is being detected as a video card. This doesn't matter much, but you need to disable this display adapter by right clicking on it and 'disable' it for now.

I would recommend you clean the old drivers out and do a clean install of Catalyst driver. You can even use utility like Drive Sweeper.

http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

Try using catalyst driver 9.3 as it was one before they discontinued support. They should at least give you some display.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/9-3/Pages/radeonaiw_xp.aspx?&lang=English

I will certainly try all of this when I get back into town and start anew, thank you again so much. I have gone down in the drivers, backward in age of issue, and am not quite to 9.3 yet. The thing is that I had updated all the way to 10-2 and it was working I just wanted to be sure that I had the latest. Dumb move on my part. I have seen so many computer ppl say don't update if you are doing ok, I think they are right.