Video Card Trouble??

[Peja16]

Hey there everyone,

to make a long story short......I gave my old pc to my brother who didnt have one. It has an Asus A7N266-E with onboard video, Thermaltake 480watt psu, AMD XP2100+, 512mb Mushkin RAM. MSI 6600GT Video Card

We had tons of problems after a reinstall with BSOD when playing certain games. Sometimes the computer wouldnt even boot and what not. Since I did not uninstall all cards or anything after the last reinstall of XP Pro, I figured I would do it this time. So all I have now is the bare essentials and I reinstalled with onboard video. Installed everything just fine. After all motherboard drivers, I installed the graphics card. Ran the newest nvidia drivers.

Everything seemed to work fine but now I can boot and even go through the windows log in screen and even on occasion get to the desktop for a few seconds and then the monitor goes blank and says no signal. There is no option in bios that says disable onboard video but there is a setting that says boot using onboard or agp bios.....i selected agp.

So what is causing me to lose signal? If I run the onboard bios and connect it to that port, everything works great. Just not the AGP card for more than a few seconds. Fan is moving so I dont think it is overheating.

Sorry about the novel.....and it was the short version..... Laughing

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Peja

 

[imported_nocturne]

Try cleaning off the vga contacts (alcohol/q-tips) and blow out the slot really good. I've had similar problems occur intermittently with my old radeon, but never new how I fixed it. You might as well try upgrading the BIOS while you'r at it.

Just stick with it, and I'm sure you'll find the fix. Good luck.

 

[Peja16]

Thanks nocturne. Lets hope it is this easy. If anyone else has some ideas I would love to hear them. Thanks everyone.

Peja

 

[Peja16]

I guess to make things more complicated but maybe narrowing down the problem......the graphics card works when first installed and running on the Windows XP driver.....but as soon as I update to an Nvidia driver whether it is the most recent from Nvidia or the MSI ones....I can't get anything but a blank screen.

Using the MSI drivers, the monitor doesn't shut off but I have nothing but a black screen. It doesn't tell me that there isn't a signal.

Now what? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks all.

Peja

 

[Peja16]

UPDATE:

Weird but I read somewhere to switch the RAM stick to a different slot and then when I did, it ended up working just fine. Bad RAM slot? Not sure but I am sure it is time to upgrade for him.

Thanks for the help.....I'll be posting back again I am sure....hehehe.


UPDATE 2: It seems that the problem is still there. I can switch sticks of ram to different slots.....sometimes only one stick sometimes two.....and sometimes it works and then upon restart its back to the same black screen. It will get pretty annoying to move a stick of RAM around everytime you want to get on the computer. Stumped......