Post #86,224
3/6/03 6:11:06 PM
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Re: Their Answer
It would seem that since you can't even get this to post you are experiencing a base compatibility issue that doesn't have a solution. POST == Power On System Test. Therefore POST == boot up.Thanks, that explains it better to me! (it starts sounding like computer "greek" to me after a point!) They ain't got a clue, and since the card is "so old", they don't want to be bothered with it. You're getting good suggestions from here. I can't help, no experience with either the MB or Vid card.Okay, thanks! btw, Welcome aboard.Thanks again, and it's nice to have somewhere to go for the help. :) My usual computer repair person moved to Texas and it's hard to get him here to repair anything anymore! ;) Nightowl >8#
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Post #86,227
3/6/03 6:14:51 PM
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have yer husband offer copious amounts of beer to
desitter and a ride, he would prolly go over and fix it. thanx, bill
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Post #86,261
3/6/03 8:09:15 PM
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Re: have yer husband offer copious amounts of beer to
This is Nightowl's husband.
So if he can't get it to work, do I get my beer back? (I know, not the way I WANT it back....)
I think it gives me one long beep and three short beeps, but it stutters, so it's hard to tell. The manual says it should never beep unless it's one long and two short.
By the way, the system does boot, it just beeps and doesn't display anything. I know it's booting, because it accessed the disk, and I powered down, and when I powered back up with the SiS card, Windows complained that I didn't shut it down properly.
I upgraded the VIA 4in1 drivers, so that's not a problem. There are a lot of sites that say that the VIA chips don't handle "high-power" graphics cards like the Radeon very well, so there may be nothing we can do.
I tried an Auto AGP Apurture size, and also EC (the default) and CC (what Tyan recommends in the manual) with no luck. The 4x speed is disabled. AGP is the default card type. I'm trying not to change any settings that might kill off our other AGP card, because that would be a pain.
What I really should do is build a new computer with new parts, but I don't have the money for that at the moment....
Thanks for all your help!
Nightowl's husband, JohnF
(Nightowl says I should tell you the other computer that I use, to really shock you! It's a 60MHz Pentium with Windows 3.11, and yes, it's the Pentium with the floating point bug built in. I kept it instead of exchanging it for a working one, in case it becomes a collector's item someday. Anyway, it still works for the moment, though I have to use Netscape version 3 to view the Internet on it.)
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Post #86,264
3/6/03 8:15:23 PM
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Idea.
Perhaps the PCI IRQ routing is screwed.
With the working card in, go into the BIOS and select whatever option you have for "reset configuration data", "reset ESCD data" or similar.
Power down.
Insert new card.
Power up.
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Post #86,277
3/6/03 8:41:01 PM
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Good Call
..but I already mentioned that.
ATI cards like IRQ 9.
-drl
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Post #86,848
3/9/03 2:00:25 AM
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Could another device be using IRQ 9
and it doesn't like sharing it? Some motherboard resources like to grab IRQs like that IRQ Steering that Peter mentioned. Do you think that maybe the ATI card is grabbing an IRQ that another resource is also trying to grab? Then they don't like sharing it.
Try this, use the SiS card, disable the USB ports and extra serial port if you are not using them. Reset the plug and play settings for the motherboard, power down and then put the ATI card back in, see if that makes a difference.
See if there is a jumper or DIP switch on the ATI card that assigns the IRQ manually, then tell Plug and Play in BIOS to reserve that IRQ for a legacy device, and see if that works.
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Post #86,276
3/6/03 8:40:01 PM
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Dah Dit Dit Dit = no video
I know exactly what this is - the AGP aperture. But, I can't fix it remotely.
-drl
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Post #86,363
3/7/03 2:18:12 AM
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Re: Dah Dit Dit Dit = no video
I know exactly what this is - the AGP aperture. But, I can't fix it remotely. Hmmm, well is there any way to tell John how to fix it? I appreciate anything you can tell us to try. :) We also wrote ATI in Canada tonight, and they sent us an automated response saying they would look into it too. Maybe between them, Tyan and you guys, we'll solve it. :) Thanks again! Nightowl >8#
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Post #86,818
3/8/03 10:11:35 PM
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Re: Dah Dit Dit Dit = no video
This is Nightowl's husband again. I misspoke when I said, "AGP aperture size". That is set to 64MB. What I actually meant was that I tried Auto, EC, and CC for the AGP Driving Value. Does that beep code really mean the aperture size is wrong?
Thanks,
Nightowl's husband JohnF
"Honesty is the best policy, and the one I use." :)
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