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I bought another Sapphire radeon 9600 XT 256MB from newegg the other day..

Well I had windows XP installed at the time, I downloaded the 4.9 driver (the large one, I figured it was better somehow) and being it's windows it gives me this crap: "ATI Setup Error: Cannot local RPC server" [ok] 'what ever you ($@#&^%) I said.. I then just grabbed what data i needed from when it extracted itself into c:\ATI\SUPPORT and manually installed the driver. well i go to run Hostile-Intent (A half-life mod) and not only does it run worse then my Geforce 4, but after about 10 minutes, it freezes with an awful audio-repeat of the last few seconds over and over again. I must hold the power button to reboot and try something else....

so i reinstalled with windows 2K downloaded the newest Nforce drivers, then used the drivers on the CD v4.6. I try Far-cry, as steam wasn't updated yet.. no joy, after a few moments it freezes like half-life did only audio wasn't repeating.. again, I had to hold the power button down.

So, I download the 4.9 drivers again, but the smallers ones thinking why bother downloading the 40MB ones on my slow ass ISDN connection when I can get just what I need from the 26MB installer and just have it WORK. Well you'll never guess, but NO it does the same damn thing.

The card itself came well packed and doesn't have any visable damage. Nothing is overclocked. I have a 350w Kingwin PSU powering it.

Errors are without messages
Errors appear to be random and not game specific
Errors only appear in 3D rendering and it doesn't matter if it's D3D or OGL
Errors Really have me pissed

Specs:

Asus a7n8x deluxe rev 2.0
2700+ tbred
2x 256MB corsair XMS
Stupid unworking Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT 256MB

Any ideas?

Update - underclocked the GPU/Memory and it did this crap on me..

yea, that happenes.

I woudl run the normal drivers though.

Greg

Normal drivers? what do you mean? the big-ass 40MB ones?

that's not even the real issue, the issue is, I can't play games.. and I need a cookie.

sounds like a bad card really.

Greg

Urrg.

Alright, thank you greg, always a big help.. who wants to pay to ship this pile back to newegg?

if you call them they can be nice on ocasion and cover that one way or another for ya.

Greg

Hmm, I don't think it's just you having problems with those drivers though. Try placing the card in another machine and using older drivers on it and see if it work. If you don't have another computer, just try to roll back the drivers, or install the older drivers.

Best of luck to you.

I find that games sometimes don't run for some reason with the latest driver - roll back and see if that helps

otherwise send it back

That desktop image corruption indicates to me that it's a bad card.

I would use the smaller driver, not the bloated one.