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Gforce Woes
| | Posted on Sunday, September 2, 2001 - 12:08 am: | |
I bought a PIII Motherboard made by Asus and installed full version of Win98 and all my peripherals work great. I then bought a Geforce2 MX 200 64 MB AGP video card, begin problem. The Bios does not allow you to disable "onboard video", but only alllows choice of PCI or AGP Default boot. The onboard video is on the AGP BUS according to Nvidia software in video properties. I dont think disabling anything is really needed because I get something on bootup. That something is a strange looking display with alot of different colored vertical lines - looks almost like a test pattern or something. The pattern changes when I move the mouse or hit space bar. I think it actually goes into Win98 because when I remove card and use onboard video the scandisk program runs and checks disk. The monitor came from a Packard-Bell Legend 12CD system. Is this card too hot for the monitor? |
Geforce Woes
| | Posted on Sunday, September 2, 2001 - 10:44 pm: | |
Here is some additional info on my system:
Pentium III 733Mhz
Via 694X Chipset
128+256 MB PC100 memory - 2 seperate chips - 3 slots - HP has no mem config info for 128 + 256 but each memory configuration shown shows that when using 2 chips the smaller goes in the middle and larger goes in last bank.
Board says "CUV-NT" and has Asus on one of the chips - I figure it is made by Asus
Motherboard is completely jumperless except reset located near the CMOS? Battery
Nvidia Riva TNT2 64 - Onboard video
Bios boots to Hewlett Packard screen - Guy I bought from says it is from XL766 pavilion
I went to HP support and found no hoops for installing a AGP card
The Geforce2 AGP card fits snugly |
Geforce Agony
| | Posted on Monday, September 3, 2001 - 11:52 pm: | |
Here I go talking to myself again, hopefully someone will come to the rescue with a really great suggestion. I say the AGP card fits snugly but I can see contacts barely sticking out from the port. I see the same thing with the sound card and it works fine. I stuck this motherboard into a 300W powered case, but I did not use any kind of plastic standoffs, I used what look like brass. I figured this would not be a problem because the board has aluminum washers in the mounting holes. These holes also appear to not have any elctrical connection to the board. I babble on about this because I am thinking that maybe the board needs just a hair more clearance off the case so that any PCI or AGP card will clear the case when fully inserted or more importantly will seat fully into slots. Any help or suggestions are Greatly appreciated. |
Geforce Agony
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 12:07 am: | |
Here I go talking to myself again, hopefully someone will come to the rescue with a really great suggestion. I say the AGP card fits snugly but I can see contacts barely sticking out from the port. I see the same thing with the sound card and it works fine. I stuck this motherboard into a 300W powered case, but I did not use any kind of plastic standoffs, I used what look like brass. I figured this would not be a problem because the board has aluminum washers in the mounting holes. These holes also appear to not have any elctrical connection to the board. I babble on about this because I am thinking that maybe the board needs just a hair more clearance off the case so that any PCI or AGP card will clear the case when fully inserted or more importantly will seat fully into slots. Any help or suggestions are Greatly appreciated. |
V (Vera)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 8:03 am: | |
how about taking the board out. set it on a piece of plywood, see if the video card will seat in further, hook it up to the powersupply and any other nessecities,see what happens
maybe both are trying to use the same resources
have you tried removing your gforce, going back to your onboard video.then go into device manager, click on the onboard video adapter properties and "disable in this hardware profile" or uncheck " exists in all hardware profiles" box (whichever is available) then re-install your gforce
it wouldn't hurt to go into safe mode to make sure there aren't numurous adapter entries that don't belong there
or could be a defective card. do you have the opportunity to try the card in another machine without onboard video?
i ordered a video card that was defective from the start, so that not impossible
some ideas
hope this helps |
Geforce Arrrggh
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 12:04 am: | |
Thank You Vera for suggestions. I will have to take the card somewhere to test in another machine. I now get nothing when I insert it and hook up monitor. The crazy looking test pattern I got gave me hope that it could possibly work in this machine. I looked on the box for the card and it says supports 2x and 4x AGP. Does This Mean That It Also Supports 1x By Default? I suspect that this machine's AGP slot is only 1x, dont know why but I do. I tried disabling onboard video in every hardware profiles and also tried running machine using onboard video while add-on was in slot. This last attempt caused a lockup when I went into device manager to see if there was a conflict - apparently so. Anyway, the acid test will be to see if the card is any good in the first place, then all my wondering will cease and the pursuit of consumer justice will begin. |
Geforce Bliss
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 1:28 pm: | |
Thank You Vera!! I went to a shop and tested Geforce card and it was fine, of course. I then went back and loosened the screws on the motherboard so I had some wiggle room. I then wiggled and wiggled the card until those rotten little contacts on the card went alll the way in to the slot. Bingo!! I hooked the monitor up and the BIOS screen showed up with initial info on Video card. Windows 98 did it's thing and detected new hardware, I inserted driver CD and installed drivers. Amazing how stubborn I was in thinking the card was sufficiently seated. |
V (Vera)
| | Posted on Saturday, September 8, 2001 - 1:10 pm: | |
bingo! isn't bliss great |
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