twolf134's Full Review: ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO, (128 MB) AGP Video Car...
I will never buy nor recommend another ATI product again. I upgraded my system to a p4c800 motherboard in Jan and read in the manual that 9700pro video cards, models earlier than a certain number were unstable with the mb. So I contacted ati about it to see if they would replace mine with another one of a later model than indicated in the manual. I told them that there was nothing wrong with mine other than it was of the earlier model. They agreed to replace it with later one..well they sent another earlier model...i called and raised cain and asked them why they promised to send a later one and did not...i told them that if they had not agreed to replace it i had no prob, because asking would not hurt anything, but when they promised to do it I expected them to do it.
Basically I wasted several weeks of downtime with the computer waiting for them to send me the same thing back. When I raised cain, they assured me the mb manual was wrong and that the card was fine with it. Well, I have had it in now since I got it from ati in feb, and guess what? the video card crashes frequently and yes it is the video card because it freezes the system and all of a sudden blinks and it is 16 bit color at 400x600...and sometimes it crashes and there is just no picture on the screen at all..just goes blank, and then once rebooted XP comes up and says fatal error with the video card..so I will NEVER buy ATI again because they lied and they have shown their incompetence to me...
I will note that in the Asus nforce motherboard
I had before, the 9700 worked just fine. I really liked the video card, but with the intel motherboard, which has been around for a good while then I can't figure out why it would be unstable with it.
ATI, when I emailed them the other day, did send another rma form, but I can't be wasting my time and have my computer down for weeks while waiting for them to send another of the earlier models, to replace it. They simply did not pay attention, nor acknowledge what the real problem was...it was not that there was a prob with the card, just that the earlier versions were unstable with this board. I am just frustrated that these companies do NOT listen to the consumers.
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