AGP mainboard w/ PCI vid

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Skeleton Man

Hi,

I have an old PIII board with AGP, which I've had sitting around for ages
minus the video card..
I decided to drag it out for use and figured as I didn't have an AGP card
about, a PCI one would be fine..

Well I get a display and a normal POST, however both win98 and win 2000 hang
as soon as the GUI appears ! (even in safe mode !)

I know the video card is fine, as it was running great in a celeron 400 box
with 98se.. and the PIII board itself runs fine when I put an AGP card in...

I wasn't expecting any trouble.. I was expecting windows to find the new
video card and ask for drivers.. (not freeze!)

Any ideas ?

Regards,
Chris
 
Skeleton said:
Hi,

I have an old PIII board with AGP, which I've had sitting around for ages
minus the video card..
I decided to drag it out for use and figured as I didn't have an AGP card
about, a PCI one would be fine..

Well I get a display and a normal POST, however both win98 and win 2000 hang
as soon as the GUI appears ! (even in safe mode !)

I know the video card is fine, as it was running great in a celeron 400 box
with 98se.. and the PIII board itself runs fine when I put an AGP card in...

I wasn't expecting any trouble.. I was expecting windows to find the new
video card and ask for drivers.. (not freeze!)

Any ideas ?

Regards,
Chris
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Does The CPU have sufficient cooling? That has been the only time I have
had that exact problem. The fan had died on the CPU and it would freeze
when Win98 booted about half way through.


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Does The CPU have sufficient cooling? That has been the only time I have
had that exact problem. The fan had died on the CPU and it would freeze
when Win98 booted about half way through.
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It's running at 38 - 40C idle.. so hardly overheating..

I experimented further and removed all PCI cards except the video, but that
made it worse.. with just the video card in, I'll get about the first 1/4
of the screen at the top, and then nothing.. no post, no anything.. with
sound and nic in place, a cold boot produces the above, but hitting reset
will let me boot as far as the windows GUI..

I'm 99% certain it's hardware and not a windows problem, as even running a
dos application (in this case Ghost), causes it to lock up as soon as a GUI
appears...

I've tried:

1. clearing cmos
2. removing all other devices (cards, drive, even kb/mouse!)
3. every possibly PCI slot
4. re-seating the card several times
5. manually setting FSB and memory clock (doesn't have jumpers for PCI
clock.. nor bios option except auto-detect)
6. cursing and swearing

So far none of the above have made a difference (if anything, some made it
worse)

Any further suggestions are welcome..

Regards,
Chris
 
Skeleton said:
It's running at 38 - 40C idle.. so hardly overheating..

I experimented further and removed all PCI cards except the video,
but that made it worse.. with just the video card in, I'll get about
the first 1/4 of the screen at the top, and then nothing.. no post,
no anything.. with sound and nic in place, a cold boot produces the
above, but hitting reset will let me boot as far as the windows GUI..

I'm 99% certain it's hardware and not a windows problem, as even
running a dos application (in this case Ghost), causes it to lock up
as soon as a GUI appears...

I've tried:

1. clearing cmos
2. removing all other devices (cards, drive, even kb/mouse!)
3. every possibly PCI slot
4. re-seating the card several times
5. manually setting FSB and memory clock (doesn't have jumpers for PCI
clock.. nor bios option except auto-detect)
6. cursing and swearing

So far none of the above have made a difference (if anything, some
made it worse)

Any further suggestions are welcome..
Click to expand...

Is there a setting in BIOS for something like "initial display" with the
options AGP and PCI?

Although I must admit I've changed from one to the other before without
changing this setting and it doesn't seem to have bothered it.
 
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