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Problems changing video cards

1sikbITCH

1sikbITCH

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Ok my wife's system- System A- Asus A7V, T-Bird 1Ghz, 512megs Cas2 Crucial Memory
Starting with a Voodoo 3

My system- SystemB- A-Open mobo, P3 800, 512megs Cas2 Crucial memory
Starting with a Kyro II

Tried putting the Kyro 2 in System A first. Uninstalled and deleted all Voodoo software. Restarted in VGA mode. Shut down, switched cards. Ran Kyro drivers setup. Got the system to say it installed the drivers, yet on reboot it would not get out of software mode and did not have options to change the video settings (16bit Color, 640X480 only). Device Manager listed Kyro 2 and had a conflict (drivers). Monitor said "Default VGA mode" or something. I reinstalled drivers 5 times, downloaded and ran 5 different sets of drivers from 3 different places, and jumped up and down like an idiot, all to no avail.
Put the Voodoo back in, installed drivers, rebooted, works fine.

System B- Uninstalled and deleted Kyro software. Rebooted. Shut down, changed to Gainward Geforce 2 T1450. Rebooted, ran driver setup. Driver setup cannot complete installation because it cannot find all the driver files. Deleted that set of drivers and downloaded drivers directly from www.nvidia.com. Run new drivers, same thing. Error- some driver files missing. Try a ton of different drivers (including the CD that came with it). Would not install any of them. Put Kyro 2 back in, install drivers, works fine.

I'm pretty sure in the past I have successfully switched cards before without reinstalling windows. What am I doing wrong? Thx.
 
Assuming that these are AGP cards, try switching around your PCI cards. If you have a card plugged into the slot right under the AGP slot, move that to a different slot. Sometimes, motherboards are really picky about sharing IRQs. Some motherboards will say that there is a IRQ conflict if you have, for example, a PCI sound card right under your AGP video card because it shares resources. However, I have the A7V, and everything works fine for me. I have the video card, then a slot fan under that, and all the other cards under the slot fan. But it used to work when I had a NIC under the video card too. Hope this helps somehow. Good luck.

P.S. What OS's are you running...that might help a little.
 
Running W2K in both. As I said before, both original cards run fine. I just can't switch them. In the Asus I have the vidcard in the AGP slot, then a slot fan under that. Then an empty slot. The rest of the cards are at the bottom. I have already had the irq conflict and had to rearrange things in the past.
On the Pentium machine I also have 2 or 3 empty slots under the AGP slot. In this machine when I did the last install, I put a Kyro 1 in it. I have since successfully upped it to Kyro 2. Maybe I just can't switch chipsets or something without reinstalling. If that's the case, you can look forward to another thread on the mysteries of XP 😛
 
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