Diamond Stealth ATI 9250 PCI 256MB Video Card ( S9250PCI256 ) | List Price: $69.99
Discount Price: $64.99
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Brand: Diamond Multimedia
Binding: Electronics
Features: - PCI Bus Type
- 256MB DDR Memory
- Quad-Pipe Architecture
- Dual Display Support
- DVI and TV Out
It works for me! [Posted on 2007-12-24]
I don't need really high graphics as I don't go for many video games but I do appreciate decent video quality and this is a perfect economical value.
Works with 2 monitors - Cinema 23" at 1920x1200 - BUT... [Posted on 2008-02-19]
I put this card in an older AMD-64 with an Asus A8V Deluxe mobo. Worked OK with a 17" LCD at 1280x1024 on the VGA port and an Apple Cinema 23" at 1920x1200 on the DVI port. I originally had a Matrox P750 AGP to drive the Cinema, but it started acting weird and hanging with "insufficient resources", so I put both monitors on the 9250.
APRIL 2008 UPDATE: Installed a Diamond ATI X1050 AGP to use as the main display card. The Catalyst Control Center caused my system to hang all the time, and left all kinds of crap behind after the uninstall. Used Revo Uninstaller to get rid of all the leftover pieces (took over an hour). After installing just the ATI display drivers, scrolling was slow and very jumpy. Pulled out both cards and replace them with an eVGA 7300AGP eVGA e-GeForce 7300GT Superclocked 512MB AGP Graphics Card-512-A8-N501-LR and a 6200PCI eVGA e-GeForce 6200 256MB DDR PCI Graphics Card-256-P1-N399-LX. I'm happy again! Easy install, good performance and smooth scrolling. STAY AWAY FROM ATI -- GET EVGA!
Nice Video Card But High Pitch Fan Causes Headaches! [Posted on 2008-02-24]
I purchase this on Ebay and the video card is what I need for 1920 X 1200 for new LCD Monitor! It must have been a earlier model since the fan blades were clear, thinly finned.
It was killing me with the fan hooked up! It was unbearable. It was such a high pitch; you can hear it through the music I was playing through iTunes.
After a couple of weeks; I just unplug the fan. I only use the computer for surfing and it made a lot of difference in my environment. First, try to cover the fan and muffed the pitch but did no good it just made it higher/worse. Finally, I have just unplugged it. I will see if it affects the video card. There are two medium fans at the front of my computer and so I hoping that it will be adequate to cool the video adopter. If not; I have nothing to loose. My health is more important.
I see the pictures above and it shows a large heat sink in first two and a curved fan in the latter pictures. I think either of them will work fine for the buyer. I guess I should of purchase it through Amazon but I was not thinking. I learn my lesson the hard way!
Well it been months after; and the graphics card has failed and it also recked my sound card too! I read up on my built-in graphics from Intel and it does do the high resolution and replace my sound card with an Creative Labs 24 bit card for around $80 plus sales tax. Of course, I purchased it new and locally, making sure I could return it for 30 days before purchasing it! I am kind of scare to buy cards now since my Ebay incident!
Not an intuitive install [Posted on 2008-02-28]
I have an older 800 MHz PC that I installed this card into. I followed the instructions that came with the card. But it took some serious afterthought and troubleshooting to figure the right sequence for the install steps. Success was achieved, and the card works great.
Works great in my old eMachine [Posted on 2008-09-24]
I have an old i733 eMachine - Celeron 733, originally 64mb but upgraded to 192 by adding a 128 mb chip. Came with junky Windows ME but I have put in Win 2000 SP4. I planned to use it for my VPN connection to my PC at work, since it would then be basically acting as a dumb (but GUI) terminal. I didn't want to use either of my XP machines for this, or my Vista laptop - I couldn't get the vpn software working on Vista anyway, many other people had this problem [LATER UPDATE: following a string of MS patches, it now works on Vista.] The company insists you apply all Windows patches on your VPN machine and I am selective with these things for XP (if it ain't broke don't fix it - I have excellent anti-virus and firewall protection). So the Win2k eMachine was it.
Also, I wanted a bigger screen to work on at home, and invested in an Envision 22" widescreen ($249), hence the Diamond PCI.
I had a slight installation issue along the way - here's the saga.
I applied all 69 outstanding patches for Win2000, per company rules - OK. Then, ATI say to "disable" the existing onboard video driver, but the only option in my Device Manager was to "uninstall." Slightly scary - supposing I can't see the screen at all? But I did it and then followed their instructions: put in the card and started 'er up. Machine then comes up with - I guess a default, always-there - 16-color VGA. So that was not a problem.
Followed instructions about letting Windows do its thing with "found new hardware" and only after that, load software from the CD. Took an amazingly long time to load the drivers and Catalyst Control Center etc but OK, finally done.
Here is where I got into trouble. Prompted to restart. OK - with pretty much every other install, you take the CD out before restarting, which I did. Mistake!
Had I looked more carefully I would have seen that *after* restart you are to click Finish, which implies here is some piece of the install still finishing off. The upshot was that the machine started as far as "Starting Windows" then I got a dead screen with "No Signal." Panic! Reconnected the monitor to the onboard chip...comes up, thank goodness, churns a long time (I think re-installing the onboard driver) finally OK with the old 1280 x 1024. The ATI Catalyst control center shows clearly it is working with the onboard chip. Switching the connector on the fly - no good.
Finally got everything working by taking out and re-installing the board. Then the already installed ATI software saw the board and let me select 1680 x 1050. Works great!
An oddity about the vpn connection: I only get 1600 x1050 when looking at my remote work screen. I assume this is the result of the vpn software negotiating between my IBM T61 laptop at work and the Diamond card here. But that's OK. I can still easily see two pages of VB.Net code side by side, which is not really possible at work.
All in all, very satisfied, considering I had been wondering home much use I would ever get out of the old eMachine with its limitations. Recommended.
But do follow the installation steps EXACTLY!
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