ATI Radeon 7500 screwed up?

Hey guys,
I have a 1.3 Ghz computer with an ATI Radeon 7500 AGP in it. I installed the drivers from the ati cd on the computer but the card seems a little messed up. Every once and awhile when I start my computer up, after the windows me splash screen, the computer just goes blank. I restart (it is now in 16 colors) and I have to reinstall the radeon card to get it fixed again. Also, when I play games (half-life) I get strange transparent boxes on the screen. Does anyone know what the problem would be? Thank you.
-Kaelon

[quote]Originally posted by Kaelon:
<strong>Hey guys,
I have a 1.3 Ghz computer with an ATI Radeon 7500 AGP in it. I installed the drivers from the ati cd on the computer but the card seems a little messed up. Every once and awhile when I start my computer up, after the windows me splash screen, the computer just goes blank. I restart (it is now in 16 colors) and I have to reinstall the radeon card to get it fixed again. Also, when I play games (half-life) I get strange transparent boxes on the screen. Does anyone know what the problem would be? Thank you.
-Kaelon</strong><hr></blockquote>


See if this helps, go into your motherboard bios and set the AGP driving strength to 68, from the normal Auto setting...It helped me with some problems i had on an different motherboard..

I would also get the latest drivers from ATI from the internet. That'll also help out.

Did you uninstall the previous Card drivers/info
file corectly. If not this could be cause of your problem.

What chipset are you using? Apparently there is a known issue with the VIA 694x series and the Radeon 7500.

I had trouble trying to set up dual monitors with that card as well:
<a href="http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum3/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=17&t=007883&p=" target="_blank">this thread</a>

sounds like a via AGP issue. Actually it's identical to the one via had with the chipset used in FIC 503+ I'd try another AGP card to verify that it is not a global Chipset issue.