8500DV no POST

[xCarter]

I just picked up an 8500DV the other day, but for some reason I can't get my
machine to POST with the ATI card in it.

I have been using a Viper 2 (Savage 2000 chip) AGP card for over a year with
no problems. If I remove this card and install the 8500DV, no boot up and
the Fan on the card will not spin.

I am using a Giga-byte GA-6VXC7-4X (Via 694 chipset) with a P3-1G.

A friend of mine took the card to test on his systems:

His Gateway P3 with on-board-video will also not POST with this card
installed, this could however be related to the OBV, not really sure.
His home built AMD system (some ASUS MB) will POST with the card.

So far these are the only three AGP systems I can find to test the card in.

My original thought was the card was dead, as I have used a borrowed 8500DV
for about a hour in my system. But the fact that the card will POST in
another system makes me rethink that.

Is it possible that my AGP slot is damaged in some way as to allow one AGP
card to work and not another?

I tried all the usual stuff, latest BIOS, checking settings, disableing the
FireWire port on the 8500DV via the provided dip switch, and nothing seems
to work.

Am I looking a "dodgy" card? Or do you think it's more likely MB issues?

 

[Willoughbyva]

Best to ask in the video forum. It might be a voltage problem, but I kind of doubt it. ***Make sure the card is properly seated in the agp slot. **** Sometimes it looks seated, but isn't rally seated properly.

Those are the only two things I can think of at the moment besides not to overclock at all when first installing new hardware.


Will

 

[apriest]

I just put some Radeon 7000 and 7500's in some dual AMD Tyan S2466 motherboards. They would boot, but not POST properly (computer would lock up, couldn't access BIOS, etc.). Called Tyan and they sent me a beta BIOS that fixed the problem. (I had to install a non-Radeon card in it to flash the BIOS first). Afterwards I was all set. Tyan techs said the Radeons use an ackward frame buffer or something like that. It reserves a weird part of RAM or something that screws up some motherboards. Leave it to ATI to do something queer like that. I hate it when any manufacturer does something out of whack, and yet say it's AGP compatible. To me that means it should work with any AGP slot in any motherboard... Not that motherboard manufacturers have to remap their frame buffers (or whatever they do, I'm no engineer!) to be compatible with a new video card someone releases.

Dunno if that helps ya... try the latest BIOS, see what happens!

Good luck!