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Radeon 9250 128Mb
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Posted by: Skinner
Hi I have bought the above card and when installed it does not allow booting from the SATA drive I have connected via a PCI RAID controller card. I can boot off my old IDE drive, but this is slow and is the reason I bought the SATA drive in the first place. How do I get it working, alter the BIOS??
Posted by: VmanBeBop
I'm guessing this graphics card is an AGP card seeing its age. I'm also guessing that you have the RAID card in the very first PCI slot, right? If you do, then this will cause a conflict with your graphics card in the AGP slot, since they both use the same IRQ (IRQ is what computer components use to talk to the Central Processor). In this case, I would simply move the RAID card to another available PCI slot. This doesn't mean you put something else in the first PCI slot; you always leave it empty.
Posted by: Skinner
Well I am not sure which slot it is in. From facing the monitor, top off, the sequence from the right is: grpahics card, then left, the RAID card. I am not sure if there are any slots left.
Posted by: goranpaa
There is just 2 ways to find out. Open the case and take a look. Or download a diagnostic software, like "Everest Home" or "SIS Sandra" and look under "motherboard" and "expansion slots". And see how many PCI slots your mobo got?
Posted by: VmanBeBop
I'm not quite sure what you're talking about either. Take a look at the specified picture and tell me in which numbered slot is your graphics card in and which one your RAID card is in.
Posted by: Skinner
Well I have had a look and I have ONE graphics card slot (AGP) and left of these are three similar-sized slots, one is a USB2.0 board and the other os the RAID controller card.
Posted by: VmanBeBop
Sorry I forgot to attach the picture. Open the attached pic in my old post.
Posted by: Skinner
Right, from your picture, which I was spooked by when it was not attached, the graphics card is in slot 1; RAID card is in 2 (was in 3) and the USB2.0 card is in 4.
Posted by: VmanBeBop
Okay. Well, 2 is the slot that shares the IRQ with the AGP slot (slot 1). See if it works when you move the RAID card from 2 to 3.
Posted by: goranpaa
Try to move the Raid card to the PCI slot, that is as far away as possible. If that does'nt work? Try another PCI slot. Also, did you have an integrated videocard before this Radeon card? Did you disable it in BIOS? Othervice the old integrated video chip, can cause conflict problems.
That is, if you have'nt got a motherboard, that automatically disables and overrule the integrated card?
Posted by: Skinner
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Originally Posted by goranpaa
Try to move the Raid card to the PCI slot, that is as far away as possible. If that does'nt work? Try another PCI slot. Also, did you have an integrated videocard before this Radeon card? Did you disable it in BIOS? Othervice the old integrated video chip, can cause conflict problems.
That is, if you have'nt got a motherboard, that automatically disables and overrule the integrated card?
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Right, so swap the USB card in 4 to 3 and move the RAID card to 4?
To the other respondee: It was in 3 already and wasn't using 2, and still didn't work...
Still on the IDE system it plays games fine on the SATA (which strangely is available, but not bootable). Nice graphics, doing some 'better' games downloads. Will HalfLife work on my card?
Posted by: goranpaa
Head into BIOS. check out the IRQ's and see if any of those cards, share IRQ with the videocard?
Yes, on lower quality settings and a resoloution 1024 X 768 - 16bit it should work to play the game.
Edit: And yeah, try slot 4.
Posted by: VmanBeBop
Check the IRQ settings in the BIOS like goranpaa said. Then if you don't find any conflicts, try checking if there is an upgrade to your BIOS that will fix the incompatability of the SATA card with your motherboard.
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