Alcatel and a ATI graphics card?!?!

Hi
I have an ancient ALCATEL PCI ADSL Modem. Its been working fine for the last
couple of years.

Today I installed an ATI RADEON 9600 PRO (Sapphire) onto my system, and its
messed up my internet.

After hours of fiddling around and numerous XP installs i have figured out
that if i install the ATI graphics card drivers it stops my modem from
making a connection to my ISP (Pipex) - if i uninstall the drivers i can
connect to the net again..
Any ideas how i can solve this?

I am trying drivers from the ATI and Sapphire site... (also when i install
them the graphics are quite choppy and jumpy likei am using a bare bones
graphics card (an i mean things liek moving an open folder! - whats gone
wrong??

I can live with having to buy a new modem (and decent internal ones) but i
dont see why the new graphics card isnt working tho...

cheers

On 06/11/2004 mo wrote:

> Hi
> I have an ancient ALCATEL PCI ADSL Modem. Its been working fine for
> the last couple of years.
>
> Today I installed an ATI RADEON 9600 PRO (Sapphire) onto my system,
> and its messed up my internet.
>
> After hours of fiddling around and numerous XP installs i have
> figured out that if i install the ATI graphics card drivers it stops
> my modem from making a connection to my ISP (Pipex) - if i uninstall
> the drivers i can connect to the net again..
> Any ideas how i can solve this?
>
> I am trying drivers from the ATI and Sapphire site... (also when i
> install them the graphics are quite choppy and jumpy likei am using a
> bare bones graphics card (an i mean things liek moving an open
> folder! - whats gone wrong??
>
> I can live with having to buy a new modem (and decent internal ones)
> but i dont see why the new graphics card isnt working tho...
>
> cheers

Try and isolate the problem, remove the Alcatel card and see if the new
graphics card works as it should, it's just possible the card may be
defective.

If the graphics card works on its own but not with the Alcatel card I
would suspect an IRQ or memory I/O clash - older PCI cards were not as
good at sharing IRQ's as modern cards. If this is the issue you may be
able to reserve an IRQ in the BIOS for the Alcatel, or just putting it
in a different PCI slot may work. If you have the handbook for the PC's
mobo it will show which IRQ's are shared.

--
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
Posted with XanaNews 1.16.4.6

In article <418c34bf$0$6326$(E-Mail Removed)>, says...
> Hi
> I have an ancient ALCATEL PCI ADSL Modem. Its been working fine for the last
> couple of years.
>
> Today I installed an ATI RADEON 9600 PRO (Sapphire) onto my system, and its
> messed up my internet.
>
No it hasn't.

> After hours of fiddling around and numerous XP installs i have figured out
> that if i install the ATI graphics card drivers it stops my modem from
> making a connection to my ISP (Pipex) - if i uninstall the drivers i can
> connect to the net again..
> Any ideas how i can solve this?
>
Yeas, assign either the graphics card or the modem a different IRQ.

> I am trying drivers from the ATI and Sapphire site... (also when i install
> them the graphics are quite choppy and jumpy likei am using a bare bones
> graphics card (an i mean things liek moving an open folder! - whats gone
> wrong??
>
Nothing, situation normal. No acceleration and low colourdepth until
the drivers are installed.



--
Conor

Opinions personal, facts suspect.

My modem is PCI and my GC is AGP....should they intefere with eachother? my
old graphics card was PCI.

Thanks for the tips - have a look at my manual later on tonight

On 06/11/2004 mo wrote:

> My modem is PCI and my GC is AGP....should they intefere with
> eachother? my old graphics card was PCI.
>
> Thanks for the tips - have a look at my manual later on tonight

Possibly, AGP is an extension of PCI and shares IRQ's with the PCI
cards.

--
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
Posted with XanaNews 1.16.4.6

"Jeff Gaines" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On 06/11/2004 mo wrote:
>
>> My modem is PCI and my GC is AGP....should they intefere with
>> eachother? my old graphics card was PCI.
>>
>> Thanks for the tips - have a look at my manual later on tonight
>
> Possibly, AGP is an extension of PCI and shares IRQ's with the PCI
> cards.

Well I tried a fresh XP install with just the Mobo (ABIT NF7) and the AGP
Graphics card (Radeon 9600 by Sapphire) - the graphics were still dodgy
(with no ADSL in the PCI - or anything else for that matter)

So i figure i must have a dodgy graphics card or drivers (i am getting them
from official sites)

So i have reverted back to my original setup where everything is working
fine...