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More info?)
In article <11eapj6gt156oa7@corp.supernews.com>, PL <"neatripple AT
lineone DOT net"> wrote:
> > timmy wrote:
> > what is your display, lcd or crt ? If lcd, is it digital or analog ?
> > onboard video or agp card, what type ?
> > These points may assist in solving the problem...but a quick guess
> > would indicate a display problem or something is wrong with the bios.
> > You could try flashing it if the monitor has worked with a previous
> > system...
> >
> >
> I've now spent two days on this issue.
> My spec:
>
> Gigabyte GD1703DP 17"LCD with both digital and analogue input
> Matrox Parhelia 128Mb AGP
> ASUS P4P800SE with 1GB PC2700 DDR
> NEC PCI USB
>
> The problems:
> With DVI input to the LCD, no signal to the monitor, which stays blank.
> Doesn't even power up to allow me to access the monitor on-screen menu
> to select digital input.
>
> With analogue input to the LCD, there's about 3 seconds of hard disk
> activity before the PC stops, with no signal to the monitor. After two
> or three re-sets, the PC will boot to WinXP and work happily. BUT, on
> start-up, the Dos message 'hit delete to enter setup' appears 9 times in
> a horizontal line across the bottom of the screen. If I hit delete,
> then the bios page appears in those same 9 boxes across the bottom of
> the screen. These images are so small, I can't read anything. What is
> curious is that Asus backgroung logo is just the one, normal size image.
>
> When I substitute the Matrox with an ATI 7500SE 64Mb AGP display
> adapter, then all screen images are correct.
>
> (At the moment the PC is running with the Matrox, but as I sit here
> preparing this post on my Notebook, the PC presents the following error
> message 'Generic Host Process for Win32 services has encountered a
> problem and must close).
>
> I'm using the latest bios and drivers for both the Matrox display
> adapter and the ASUS mainboard. I've searched both ASUS and Matrox tech
> forums with much success.
>
> I could now do with some help/advise from you fellas.
I would try to get the help of the Matrox support staff.
The Matrox support staff work the forums, between 9am-5pm
M-F in the same time zone as Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is
possible they'll have a new video BIOS for the Matrox
video card or some other kind of fix, that will correct any
VESA issues the card might have. The hardest part, will be
describing the problem in a way that the support staff can
understand (so read the forums in advance, to get some idea
of how people describe such a problem).
http://forum.matrox.com/mga/
I cannot tell from the initial problem description, whether this
thread is describing the same issues or not. It does sound like
a VESA mode problem, but your description of the screen appearance
is unlike anything I've ever read before.
http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=7116&highlight=vesa+modes
http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox/browse_frm/thread/229f34b5795e194c/a7dc2e2f101a91dc
There are some files here, but you may want to get some assistance
from Matrox, especially if you don't have a PCI video card
available for emergencies.
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/bios/home2.cfm
http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=14395&highlight=systemlogofix
I don't know if the Matrox support staff have email addresses,
but if you cannot succeed in explaining what you are seeing,
if you have a digital camera, perhaps you could take a picture
of the screen and send it to Matrox. While is is more likely
a disagreement about VESA modes, it could be the card is bad.
Paul