AGP Card shuts off as windows boots

fargopilot

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Okay here is the deal.

I have a celeron 333, 256Meg Ram, Soyo SY6BA+ with newest bios flash for it.
My video card was a Diamond 550 Riva TNT PCI card. I unstalled it the best I could, anand installed my new Geforce 2 GTS AGP card. It gets into windows then, asks for thethe drivers and I point it to the drivers (I have used both the included and the newthe newest ones from Nvidia). It then needs to reboot after it gets the drivers.

Okay, here is where it screws up. At it boots up, after it does the posting, status screen, etc, the card (or slot) just shuts off and I lose all video signal to the monitor.

I can pop the PCI TNT back in, and go into System properties and it says windows detected a problem with the drivers.

I put this card in friends computer that has a similar GTS card and mine worked in his computer.

Heck now I cant even get my PCI TNT to work right. Windows just thinks nows its a standard PCI card and never identifies it as a TNT, so I cant get more than 16 colors, 640 * 480

Help!
 

Zepper

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Make sure "Assign IRQ to Video (or VGA) card" is set to Enabled, On or Yes in your CMOS setup. Also "PNP aware OS installed" set to Yes. IRQ assignment set to Auto rather than Manual.
.bh.
 

fargopilot

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Okay also forgot to mention I am running windows ME.
And I just popped in a SiS 6326 4 meg AGP card and everything works fine with it.
Earlier I did try taking out all the other cards and only had in the GF2 GTS. Still would not work on my computer when the drivers loaded

 

GregMal

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OK...at least you know that the AGP slot works. Now your AGP slot
is probably 1.0. That means it takes only 1x/2x AGP cards. Your
GeForce probably defaults to 4x. Either in the sofware drivers
or maybe on the AGP card itself, you've got to tell it to work in
2x mode.......Greg
 

BadThad

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You shouldn't really "uninstall" a video card. You should just go in and change your display type to "standard pci" and reboot. Then, if you like, uninstall the drivers...but you don't have to. Then shutdown and install the new card.

You may end up wiping out your hardware information in the registry. Sometimes it gets to that point....which really isn't a big deal. All you have to do is open up the registry and delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ENUM key. When the system restarts, it will rebuild ALL of the hardware info. This can be a nice trick to use with problem devices. :) Just have all your drivers ready for those that ME doesn't have.
 

NeMeSi

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How big is your power supply. I know with a Geforce 2 GTS, it sucks alot more juice then a TNT original. Make sure you have atleast a 250 Watt(preferably 300 Watt) power supply. It might be that the PS is browning out on the video, causing it to blank out completely.