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First post, by fodaosm

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Hey everyone, I’m running into a really strange (and bizarre) issue...

I have a Radeon HD2600PRO AGP card that uses a standard 4-pin Molex connector for extra power—so far, so good. But the "bizarre" part is that it ONLY works on Intel systems...

I tested it on my Pentium III 1.4 Tualatin, Pentium 4 671 (3.8GHz, LGA775), and Pentium 4 2.8GHz (Socket 478), and it works on all of them.

However, on my AMD setups—specifically Athlon XP systems with chipsets like NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400, VIA KT400/KT600, SiS 741/741GX, etc.—it ALWAYS freezes while loading Windows XP SP3...

I used the same OS disc, the same Catalyst driver, and everything else was identical; it simply only works on Intel...

Does anyone have any ideas on what I could do to get it working on my Athlon XP setups?

Thanks!

• Athlon XP 3200+ // Soltek SL-75FRN2 // 2x512MB DDR400 // Maxtor 80GB IDE ATA-133 // Radeon X1650PRO AGP // Windows XP SP3
• Pentium III Tualatin 1.4GHz // Asus TUV4X // 1,5GB (3x512MB) SDRAM-PC133 // ATI HD2600PRO // Seagate 80GB IDE // Windows XP SP3

Reply 1 of 7, by shevalier

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Try to use Catalyst 14.4

And there is also a well-known but long-forgotten issue.
For later versions of the Catalyst AGP drivers, a processor without SSE2 instructions cannot run at 1.9GHz or higher.

Aopen MX3S, PIII-S Tualatin 1133, Radeon 9800Pro@XT BIOS, Audigy 4 SB0610
JetWay K8T8AS, Athlon DH-E6 3000+, Radeon HD2600Pro AGP, Audigy 2 Value SB0400
Gigabyte Ga-k8n51gmf, Turion64 ML-30@2.2GHz , Radeon X800GTO PL16, Diamond monster sound MX300

Reply 2 of 7, by fodaosm

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Ok, you can speak for I try catalyst 14.4?? I´ve tried a lot of catalyst drivers on AMD´s systems, but no success.

The theory of not have SSE2 instructions looks fine, but how explain the Pentium III-S 1.4GHz Tualatin working great in AGP4x with Asus TUV4x and the same HD2600PRO, the same Windows XP SP3 CD, same optical and HDD drive...

I´m completelly lost in this..

• Athlon XP 3200+ // Soltek SL-75FRN2 // 2x512MB DDR400 // Maxtor 80GB IDE ATA-133 // Radeon X1650PRO AGP // Windows XP SP3
• Pentium III Tualatin 1.4GHz // Asus TUV4X // 1,5GB (3x512MB) SDRAM-PC133 // ATI HD2600PRO // Seagate 80GB IDE // Windows XP SP3

Reply 3 of 7, by BitWrangler

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Those seem like kind of late cats to be using. When I was mucking around with HD6850s for OpenCL a dozen years back, it was a 12.x.x that was doing best with them in an AM2. I think you need to be down around an 8.xx or so.

Just checked, last one that mentions 2000 series is 10.2, maybe there's a legacy version of something later, but that's where I would be trying to run this card.

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Reply 4 of 7, by shevalier

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fodaosm wrote on 2026-06-29, 21:58:

Ok, you can speak for I try catalyst 14.4?? I´ve tried a lot of catalyst drivers on AMD´s systems, but no success.

The theory of not have SSE2 instructions looks fine, but how explain the Pentium III-S 1.4GHz Tualatin working great

<1.9GHz
Then you should try ATI Catalyst 7.7 for high clocked socket A CPU.

Aopen MX3S, PIII-S Tualatin 1133, Radeon 9800Pro@XT BIOS, Audigy 4 SB0610
JetWay K8T8AS, Athlon DH-E6 3000+, Radeon HD2600Pro AGP, Audigy 2 Value SB0400
Gigabyte Ga-k8n51gmf, Turion64 ML-30@2.2GHz , Radeon X800GTO PL16, Diamond monster sound MX300

Reply 5 of 7, by fodaosm

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shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 03:45:

<1.9GHz
Then you should try ATI Catalyst 7.7 for high clocked socket A CPU.

Ok I will try... can you find a secure link for download of catalyst 7.7 for XP 32bit?? The techpowerup and AMD sites are broken link...

Thanks!

• Athlon XP 3200+ // Soltek SL-75FRN2 // 2x512MB DDR400 // Maxtor 80GB IDE ATA-133 // Radeon X1650PRO AGP // Windows XP SP3
• Pentium III Tualatin 1.4GHz // Asus TUV4X // 1,5GB (3x512MB) SDRAM-PC133 // ATI HD2600PRO // Seagate 80GB IDE // Windows XP SP3

Reply 6 of 7, by shevalier

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fodaosm wrote on Yesterday, 16:05:
shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 03:45:

<1.9GHz
Then you should try ATI Catalyst 7.7 for high clocked socket A CPU.

Ok I will try... can you find a secure link for download of catalyst 7.7 for XP 32bit?? The techpowerup and AMD sites are broken link...

Thanks!

https://ftpmirror2.infania.net/sites/guru3d/ati/
The only problem might be that the driver's INF file doesn't specifically list the 2600 AGP.
You'll need to force installation through Windows Device Manager.

Aopen MX3S, PIII-S Tualatin 1133, Radeon 9800Pro@XT BIOS, Audigy 4 SB0610
JetWay K8T8AS, Athlon DH-E6 3000+, Radeon HD2600Pro AGP, Audigy 2 Value SB0400
Gigabyte Ga-k8n51gmf, Turion64 ML-30@2.2GHz , Radeon X800GTO PL16, Diamond monster sound MX300

Reply 7 of 7, by fodaosm

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shevalier wrote on Today, 04:07:
https://ftpmirror2.infania.net/sites/guru3d/ati/ The only problem might be that the driver's INF file doesn't specifically list […]
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fodaosm wrote on Yesterday, 16:05:
shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 03:45:

<1.9GHz
Then you should try ATI Catalyst 7.7 for high clocked socket A CPU.

Ok I will try... can you find a secure link for download of catalyst 7.7 for XP 32bit?? The techpowerup and AMD sites are broken link...

Thanks!

https://ftpmirror2.infania.net/sites/guru3d/ati/
The only problem might be that the driver's INF file doesn't specifically list the 2600 AGP.
You'll need to force installation through Windows Device Manager.

Thanks, I will try! =)

• Athlon XP 3200+ // Soltek SL-75FRN2 // 2x512MB DDR400 // Maxtor 80GB IDE ATA-133 // Radeon X1650PRO AGP // Windows XP SP3
• Pentium III Tualatin 1.4GHz // Asus TUV4X // 1,5GB (3x512MB) SDRAM-PC133 // ATI HD2600PRO // Seagate 80GB IDE // Windows XP SP3

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