Epox 8KTA3 and MSI GeForce GTS = No video on cold boot sometimes

[hopster]

I also posted this in the video forum... but to reach more readers I thought I would try hear as well:


I am having an unusual problem where upon cold boot (after not using the system for some time such as overnight or a few hours) the system is booting and I can tell that it is working okay but the video card does not seem to be started and the monitor stays in power saving mode. If I hit the reset button or power button on the computer and restart it will come right on up as if nothing every happened. Any idea why this is happening? I can get it to run and I have no stabitliy issues or anything once it does start up correctly it's just damn annoying!!! Especially annoying since windows wants to do a scandisk on a hard or soft reset since I can't see what is on the screen to do a proper shutdown.

I've searched these forums and the EPOX motherboard site to no avail.

Thanks for any help that can be offered!!

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I've had this problem but have thought it was due to the multiplier+FSB OC issue.

Edit: running an 850@7.5x133

 

[hopster]

Well, in that case the board simply would not boot, or would boot up intermitantly however in this case the motherboard itself is booting but the video card itself is not "waking up" so to speak. For some reason the video card appears to not be initializing on a cold boot after being shut down for a while. Upon restart everything is okay.

I have the Thunderbird unlocked with the special 133 fsb trick that Anand mentioned in one of his articles recently and the system works in that respect without a hitch.

 

[cwpc]

I have that problem with my Celery 366 in an ECS P6-SET-ml Board only since I added a PCI Video card. If I used the onboard Video this does not happen but I do not wish to keep using the onboard video.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Probably an vidcard initialization issue at 133MHz FSB. I'll try snooping the VGA pallette or somethings like that when I get home.

 

[hopster]

In my search I found this: InsaneHardware article


Sounds like the same exact problem I am having. Both of these components are very new and (msi Geforce 2 GTS is late generation) you would think these issues would have ben ironed out by now if this is in fact the same issue as mine.


Any ideas?

 

[Dill]

I have this problem with my Creative GF2 GTS and Abit KT7a motherboard..mine doesn't do anything however upon the first boot..just sits there..hold the power button down, shut the computer off a time or two, and it'll fire right up...this is on a Duron 700@975 btw.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Difference in my setup:
I have a Matrox G450

 

[hopster]

More people with this issue:

Other Forum Thread

Apparantly Abit has a fix for their motherboards that involves them physically being altered. (users have to send the board to Abit) Anyone here of this? If that is the case why wouldn't they just make the boards with the fix built in from the factory?