P4PE and ATI AIW 9000 Pro problem

[Daniel Gomes]

After a week trying to troubleshoot this on my own looking at all the
available help I could find I resort to you.

I am trying to put together from scratch an ASUS P4PE system with:
- 1006 BIOS update
- 2.4B P4
- ATI All in Wonder 9000 Pro (OEM version)
- 2 x 512MB PC3200 (some G-Tek chips DDR)
- WD 200GB HD

1. I put it all together and turned it on, the initial ASUS Graphic
screen, Setup screen and everything else was all fuzzy and dotted.
Basically unreadable almost as if there was a bad connection between
the card, DVI-VGA adapter and monitor - it did not work;

2. I reseated and cheked all connections and tried again - no
difference;

3. To get other things going and check for a more serious mobo
problem, I took the ATI AGP out and pluged in PCI video card from my
old system - worked fine;

4. I eventually installed Windows XP SP1 (slipstreamed) and got it all
working with the PCI, even loading the Intel Graphic Chipset drivers
for the 845 - still with the PCI;

5. I then plugged in the AGP (ATI) card back (left the PCI connected),
plugged the monitor on the AGP and turned in on - same problem as
before;

6. I did a hard reset on the mobo and tried to turn it on again -
worse problem, now I don't even get the fuzzy dotted graphics and
text, it doesn't show anything, the monitor doesn't even receive the
signal (it keeps shut off);

7. I plug the monitor on the PCI card- it works fine.

Can anyone please help me?

I am already thinking about returning (or replacing) the card and even
the mobo, but I would like to try until the end...

Thanks.

 

[Shoim]

I also have the P4PE board with BIOS 1005

I sometimes have a similar problem, but I am using the ATI AIW 9700
Pro Retail
This usually happens after I perform a hard restart, or sometimes a
hard shutdown

I haven't figured out the reason for this display error, but I believe
that since it has happened to us with our ATI AIW graphics boards,
that may have conflicts with the P4PE

Maybe there is a solution because Asus seems to be lacking in publicly
available support info

 

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On 28 Jul 2003 20:27:05 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (Shoim) wrote:
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some ati radeon cards are not agp version 3 compliant...

I also have the P4PE board with BIOS 1005

I sometimes have a similar problem, but I am using the ATI AIW 9700
Pro Retail
This usually happens after I perform a hard restart, or sometimes a
hard shutdown

I haven't figured out the reason for this display error, but I believe
that since it has happened to us with our ATI AIW graphics boards,
that may have conflicts with the P4PE

Maybe there is a solution because Asus seems to be lacking in publicly
available support info

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