OK. I needed an upgrade so I got a nice basic rig from EBay (AMD 2000+, 20Gig HDD, 3GB of Horribly slow DDR Ram, ATI Radeon 7000, A somewhat OK case, and a network card) for $210 (including Fedex Express Saver Shipping).
I took the stuff from my old comp (My 2 120GB Hard Drives, Audigy Card, TV Tuner, DVD-Burner, and FDD) and moved it over to this box. I took some of the new ram and mixed it with my old ram (turns out that some of the new ram was 2100, which is what I had, so I have 1.5GB worth of mem now instead of just 1).
I boot it up, it boots, but the grpahics are messed up. It will turn on, the loading screen will go nutz for a minute, then I will get a "signal out of range" message. Now all the while the system is still booting, and loading in Windows. I tried taking out everything, I tried going down to 1 Dimm. Worked a bit better.
Eventuially I replaced the 9000 Pro with the 7000 and everything worked fine. I booted it up, let windows see that it was using a 7000 instead of a 9000, and it all worked fine. Then I replaced the 9000 back in. Same problem as before. Put the 7000 back in, upgraded the BIOS, put the 9000 in. Doesn't work. Put the 7000 in, works fine.
So I put the 9000 into my old machine (stripped down) and run Knoppix and it all works fine. Put the 7000 into the old machine, works fine. Find out the BIOS settings that work best for the 9000 and put them on the NEWER board (the M7VIF) and try the 9000 Again to no avail. Now I'm using the default settings on BOTH systems, and it still doesn't work. I try the optimized settings, nothing. Now this is all with the latest BIOS.
Now I'm afraid I cracked something trying to get this 7000 out in the first place (since I couldn't figure out the locking mecanism on the. Yet the 7000 still works on both machines. I didn't have to tug at anything to get the 9000 out and put it in the new box. And again, this all works on the old box.
WTF do I do?
I took the stuff from my old comp (My 2 120GB Hard Drives, Audigy Card, TV Tuner, DVD-Burner, and FDD) and moved it over to this box. I took some of the new ram and mixed it with my old ram (turns out that some of the new ram was 2100, which is what I had, so I have 1.5GB worth of mem now instead of just 1).
I boot it up, it boots, but the grpahics are messed up. It will turn on, the loading screen will go nutz for a minute, then I will get a "signal out of range" message. Now all the while the system is still booting, and loading in Windows. I tried taking out everything, I tried going down to 1 Dimm. Worked a bit better.
Eventuially I replaced the 9000 Pro with the 7000 and everything worked fine. I booted it up, let windows see that it was using a 7000 instead of a 9000, and it all worked fine. Then I replaced the 9000 back in. Same problem as before. Put the 7000 back in, upgraded the BIOS, put the 9000 in. Doesn't work. Put the 7000 in, works fine.
So I put the 9000 into my old machine (stripped down) and run Knoppix and it all works fine. Put the 7000 into the old machine, works fine. Find out the BIOS settings that work best for the 9000 and put them on the NEWER board (the M7VIF) and try the 9000 Again to no avail. Now I'm using the default settings on BOTH systems, and it still doesn't work. I try the optimized settings, nothing. Now this is all with the latest BIOS.
Now I'm afraid I cracked something trying to get this 7000 out in the first place (since I couldn't figure out the locking mecanism on the. Yet the 7000 still works on both machines. I didn't have to tug at anything to get the 9000 out and put it in the new box. And again, this all works on the old box.
WTF do I do?
