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From: Sarah on 9 Apr 2008 14:34
Sarah wrote:
> Janaka wrote:
>
>> 2. Does the two cards that doesn't work on that computer work with
>> another computer hooked up to the same monitor at the same physical
>> location ?
>
> Obvious suggestion that I'd missed. Thanks!

The new 6200 card works fine in another PC, so the card isn't broken

>> 3. Given that Motherboard bios does some graphics card
>> initializations, may be the bios is stuffed or flaky!
>
> I hadn't thought of that. I'll reset the BIOS as my next step.

No difference. The new AGP card still doesn't work. I guess the MB is
damaged.

Thanks for the suggestions anyway.

Sarah
From: Trevor Hemsley on 9 Apr 2008 14:41
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:34:47 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Sarah
<uaqjtclv(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> The new AGP card still doesn't work. I guess the MB is
> damaged.

One last suggestion from the peanut gallery - make sure you've inserted the AGP
card properly. Several that I've fitted have been *really* difficult to get in
fully and required so much force that I thoguht I was in daner of breaking the
motherboard. Mine just popped home by 0.25mm and that was it - but my symptoms
were different, i.e. no output at all.

--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com
From: Sarah on 9 Apr 2008 16:07
Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:34:47 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Sarah
> <uaqjtclv(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> The new AGP card still doesn't work. I guess the MB is
>> damaged.
>
> One last suggestion from the peanut gallery - make sure you've inserted the AGP
> card properly. Several that I've fitted have been *really* difficult to get in
> fully and required so much force that I thoguht I was in daner of breaking the
> motherboard. Mine just popped home by 0.25mm and that was it - but my symptoms
> were different, i.e. no output at all.

That's a good point. I've had them in and out so many times now that I
can't believe that it is as simple as that, but I'll give it a go.

This PC's case is a bit odd in that there is a bar across the top of the
slots. In most cases the blanking plates are L-shaped. In this one
they're flat. It's quite difficult to get the card in because the VGA or
DVI socket furthest from the board fouls the bar.

Sarah
From: Sarah on 9 Apr 2008 16:30
Sarah wrote:
> Trevor Hemsley wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:34:47 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Sarah
>> <uaqjtclv(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> The new AGP card still doesn't work. I guess the MB is damaged.
>>
>> One last suggestion from the peanut gallery - make sure you've
>> inserted the AGP card properly. Several that I've fitted have been
>> *really* difficult to get in fully and required so much force that I
>> thoguht I was in daner of breaking the motherboard. Mine just popped
>> home by 0.25mm and that was it - but my symptoms were different, i.e.
>> no output at all.
>
> That's a good point. I've had them in and out so many times now that I
> can't believe that it is as simple as that, but I'll give it a go.
>
> This PC's case is a bit odd in that there is a bar across the top of the
> slots. In most cases the blanking plates are L-shaped. In this one
> they're flat. It's quite difficult to get the card in because the VGA or
> DVI socket furthest from the board fouls the bar.
>
> Sarah

Nope. Shoved as hard as possible, causing quite a bit of deformation of
the MB, but no good. I also bent the lip at the top of the slot upwards
so I could push it further in.

Thanks for all the help everyone - I think this is a PC that has played
its last game! I'll recommend that it is put out to pasture as a server. :-)

Sarah
From: Dragomir Kollaric on 12 Apr 2008 11:50
On 2008-04-09, Mark Hobley hit the keyboard and wrote:
> Sarah <uaqjtclv(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Interesting problem: a colleague asked me to have a look at his PC.
>> Upgraded his graphics card. Video corrupted, so replaces old card. Video
>> now corrupted with old card!
>
> I recently had a callout to a computer that did this. The video card had
> stopped working, and replacement cards were doing the same thing.
>

Mark you seem to be "the" guy I need to ask this question. :-)

I'm waiting for the replacement for a mother-board planning to build
my own PC. Now I've read that in some Mother-boards one can't use
old Graphic-cards which run on 3.5 Volts or so.

Now I've got a GeForce FX5500 nvidia Card for the dual core box, and
I would like to try it in this older PC. Will newer Graphic Cards
run in older PC's with older motherboards?

This box I posting from has a Athlon 1,9Ghz CPU, the motherboard was
designed for AMD, product title K7T266 Pro2-A [MSI MS-6380E].

It seems RAM on this box will go down the tube too, but I still have
a Pentium II to fall back if I need.

<cut>

> Mark.
>




Dragomir Kollaric
--
Q: Do you know what the death-rate around here is?
A: One per person!
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