Owners of VIA Motherboards, Beware!
Written: Sep 05 '01
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Product Rating:
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Pros: Absolutely NONE.
Cons: Two words: Didn't work!
The Bottom Line: Wasted 3 hours updating drivers for nothing. Don't waste yours time like I did!
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| cypress's Full Review: ATI Rage Fury Pro |
I've got a Compaq Presario with a 450 MHz Pentium III, 256 megs of RAM, a made-by-VIA motherboard, and a Voodoo 3 3000 video card in dire need of upgrading. Since the card is only a 16MB I thought I'd see what would happen with a 32MB card. We picked up the ATI Rage Fury Pro because it was cheap (at $79) and I was curious to see what difference it would make.
It would have been nice to have found out, but I never did.
My DH installed it, and once he got everything hooked back up, nothing happened. It was obvious that there was some kind of power problem, because the monitor would go into sleep mode after about a second, and the hard drive lights stayed on continuously. So, we took it out, put the Voodoo back in, and I came right here to epinions and looked up the card. Thanks to one of our own, in the first review I read, I discovered that someone else had a very similar problem, and said that there were drivers available to fix the problem, so off I went to download them.
So, I install the '4-in-1' drivers, we put the new card in again, expecting something to finally happen...only it never did. Same old, same old. It seems like every time we splurge on something like this, something goes wrong. I'm no computer guru, but I can search and I can read, and I did everything they said to do - but that Murphy's law just keeps on hangin' over our heads for some reason!
Needless to say, it's back in the box, ready to be returned to Office Depot tomorrow. I think I'll stick with the Voodoo card for a while longer...it might not be top-of-the-line, but then, neither is my computer - though it still gives me quite a nice DVD picture, and since I'm not a hardcore gamer, I don't think I'm missing out on much. And at least I won't have to worry about spending the next ten years trying to figure out how to make the Voodoo work - because it truly IS plug-and-play. I don't know what this ATI Rage Fury Pro is, except maybe something worthy of the trashcan, or to pass right on by when shopping for video cards. I strongly suggest you pass it by as well, and save yourself a headache!
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 79
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cypress
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Location: La.
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Wife, Mom and believer in the Golden Rule and that honesty is the best policy!
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