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I am trying to get a Radeon 128 (Sapphire 1024-1C47) to work and am having driver issues. I am running an Athlon 2400 on a VIA motherboard with KT266/A and KT333/A chipset. I am using 2x256 memory (speed unknown) and am using XP Home Edition. After installation, my computer automatically installed a generic driver. After downloading the driver for my Radeon card, I installed Microsoft netFX and then ran the installation program for the driver and rebooted. My system still says I am using a generic driver, however. I have run dxdiag and it passes the DirectDraw test, but disables DirectDraw, Direct3D, and AGP Texture Acceleration because it claims that I am using a generic driver (vga.dll). Catalyst does not recognize a graphics adapter, but my device manager shows that I have the latest driver. It also is using the Radeon 9800-secondary device instead of the Radeon 9800 device. Both of these are using the lastest drivers. I have tried earlier drivers and I have also tried a different hard drive swiped clean. Can anyone help me? Hopefully there is an obvious oversight I can fix. Thanks.

Okay, I have needed to swipe my HD for some time, and I figured this was a good time to do it (to clear out all the junk and extra variables). I haven't downloaded SP2 or Microsoft NetFX yet, but I did install the card and drivers (the ones that don't need Microsoft NetFX) and I am getting the exact same errors and problems. My DxDiag says: Main Driver: vga.dll Version: 5.01.2600.0000 (English) Date: 8/29/2002 7:00:00 WHQL Logo'd: Yes Mini VDD: vga.sys VDD: n/a DDI Version: unknown The system is using the generic video driver. Please install video driver provided by the hardware manufacturer. To test DirectDraw functionality, click the "Test DirectDraw" button above. Direct3D functionality not available. You should verify that the driver is a final version from the hardware manufacturer. I have tried multiple versions of ATI's drivers and none of them will work. My Device Manager has two devices shown- Radeon and Radeon- Secondary, both of which show up to date drivers. Radeon can't find resources because Radeon- Secondary is using them. Anyone have any more suggestions?

Oh, one more thing... I checked the card itself and found a sticker that says "Radeon 9800 Atlantis 128M 128-bit DDR V/D/VO". I checked the sapphire site and found the card itself on there. It says, obviously that it is an ATI Radeon 9800 chipset, and basically all the sapphire site has are radeon drivers and rage drivers (which my card is not a rage card). It looks like I'm back to the drawing board on this one. Anyone have anything else before I return this puppy?

I'm not sure of the specs, but I am upgrading from a Geforce4 ti 4200. In fact, I've put it back in for the time being. Works like a charm. Last question before I return this infernal card: Do you think that a defective card could cause all of these driver recognition issues, or would that simply be a driver problem? P.S. Thanks to all that have chimed in; I appreciate it.

I am using sp2, so I don't think that is the problem. Also, at first I tried the ATI Driver, but also went back to the sapphire site and tried that driver later. It was just catalyst 5.3, and it didn't work for me either. Those were good suggestions, though...

I didn't see anything about a Rage 128 chip, all I know is that it's a Sapphire card with an ATI Radeon 9800 chip. It's so odd that Device Manager shows the ATI driver, but nothing else recognizes it. Is it just time to return this refurb card?

I've been trying everything... Anyone have any input?

Oops, didn't mean to stutter... Okay, I had working VIA drivers, but reinstalled anyway, to no avail. Any other suggestions?

Trying that now...

Trying that now...

Hi there guys, I have a very similar problem, but can't seem to get my card to work. I likewise have a Radeon 128 (Sapphire 1024-1C47 and am having driver issues. I am running an Athlon 2400 on a VIA motherboard with KT266/A and KT333/A chipset. I am using 2x256 memory (speed unknown) and am using XP Home Edition. After installation, my computer automatically installed a generic driver. After downloading the driver for my Radeon card, I installed Microsoft netFX and then ran the installation program for the driver and rebooted. My system still says I am using a generic driver, however. I have run dxdiag and it passes the DirectDraw test, but disables DirectDraw, Direct3D, and AGP Texture Acceleration because it claims that I am using a generic driver (vga.dll). Catalyst does not recognize a graphics adapter, but my device manager shows that I have the latest driver. It also is using the Radeon 9800-secondary device instead of the Radeon 9800 device. Both of these are using the lastest drivers. I have tried earlier drivers and I have also tried a different hard drive swiped clean. Can anyone help me? Hopefully there is an obvious oversight I can fix. Thanks. P.S. Congratulations, you have just read the longest post in the history of the internet (sorry for the very long post)