ATI 9600 will not post

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Harling Park & Marie Tarrant

I just bought a new apple 23 inch monitor for my pc. It has a Ati 9600
video card which works perfect in windows, but will not post on boot up. It
worked perfect prior to changing to the Mac monitor. Does anyone know a fix
for this or a video card that will post? Thanks for your help.

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Harling Park & Marie Tarrant said:
I just bought a new apple 23 inch monitor for my pc. It has a Ati 9600
video card which works perfect in windows, but will not post on boot up.
It worked perfect prior to changing to the Mac monitor. Does anyone know a
fix for this or a video card that will post? Thanks for your help.
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do you mean , when you turn your pc on your can't see the post, but it's
fine once it gets to windows ?
if so, just live with it i suppose ?
 
Harling Park & Marie Tarrant said:
I just bought a new apple 23 inch monitor for my pc. It has a Ati 9600
video card which works perfect in windows, but will not post on boot up.
It worked perfect prior to changing to the Mac monitor. Does anyone know a
fix for this or a video card that will post? Thanks for your help.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.....are you saying the computer won't POST?
Or the video card BIOS flash screen doesn't show up. The former is a
problem. The latter is normal behavior for an ATI card. Why is it important
to you that the video BIOS of the card is flashed on the screen on bootup?
ATI cards do not have a BIOS flash screen that shows on boot. I've had an
8500, 9100, 9600XT, 9800 Pro and others and none of them show on boot. Nvida
cards do this, ATI don't. I don't have an answer as to why your 9600 card
used to do this. I've never seen one that did.
 
I should clarify that the computer will not post, i.e. dos and motherboard
bios etc. All I get is a black screen until the windows log in pops up.
This is fine until I need to on change any settings in bios or raid
controllers for example. I've searched Mac for answers and have found none,
so I'm looking to see if anyone has a similar problem and what they did to
correct it. Thanks
 
Harling Park & Marie Tarrant said:
I should clarify that the computer will not post, i.e. dos and motherboard
bios etc. All I get is a black screen until the windows log in pops up.
This is fine until I need to on change any settings in bios or raid
controllers for example. I've searched Mac for answers and have found
none, so I'm looking to see if anyone has a similar problem and what they
did to correct it. Thanks
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P'rpas someone should clarify that "post" = Power On Self Test

and if the boot reaches Windows then post must have happened, you just
didn't see anything on screen.

Could be confusing otherwise.

Next question is - what happens if you hold Ctrl or Delete while booting?

Lol
 
Harling Park & Marie Tarrant said:
I should clarify that the computer will not post, i.e. dos and motherboard
bios etc. All I get is a black screen until the windows log in pops up.
This is fine until I need to on change any settings in bios or raid
controllers for example. I've searched Mac for answers and have found
none, so I'm looking to see if anyone has a similar problem and what they
did to
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How is the card connected to the monitor? DVI or analog? It sounds to me
like there's no digital signal getting to the monitor until XP begins to
start. I'm not familiar with Apple monitors, but most have a DVI and analog
hookup. Try analog output from the card to analog input on the display and
see if you get normal BIOS displays on bootup.
 
Harling said:
I just bought a new apple 23 inch monitor for my pc. It has a Ati 9600
video card which works perfect in windows, but will not post on boot up.
It
worked perfect prior to changing to the Mac monitor. Does anyone know a
fix
for this or a video card that will post? Thanks for your help.
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Are you sure that the Apple display is capable of showing the 640x480 that
PCs use during boot?
 
Thanks john:

The resolution was the key. I did not realize the monitor will not show
640x480. The lowest it will go is 800x600.
 
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