ga-7n400 pro2 not booting into normal mode

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

"Neil Smith" <nsmith79@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I have just upgraded my motherboard to a Gigabyte ga-7n400 Pro2.I
> installed everything with no problems and the system was booting and
> running
> fine with no problems, that is it seems, until I installed my graphics
> card.
> Now the sytem will not boot into normal mode, it just loops and keeps
> resetting mid boot. However, if I keep hitting f8 and then boot into safe
> mode the system will boot and load windows.??
> So in safe mode I uninstalled the drivers for my graphics card (geforce4
> mx
> 440) and removed the device from device manager. Reset and it booted into
> normal mode.
> It seems that the system will only boot into normal mode when there are no
> drivers installed for my card, however, even if I install the standard
> windows display driver the system will loop again next time I reset.
> I can only seem to boot into normal mode with no drivers installed.But as
> soon as it resets with a driver then the boot just keeps "looping" until I
> turn the thing off!!
>
> Has anybody got any suggestions as I have been trying different things for
> over a week now and am getting pretty fed up to say the least!!
>
> Thanks, Neil.
>
>

which graphics card have you installed?

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

"Dimitris Ketikidis" <doctorx@tellas.gr> wrote in message
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>
> "Neil Smith" <nsmith79@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:_6oUd.3932$dy3.2161@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
> > Hi, I have just upgraded my motherboard to a Gigabyte ga-7n400 Pro2.I
> > installed everything with no problems and the system was booting and
> > running
> > fine with no problems, that is it seems, until I installed my graphics
> > card.
> > Now the sytem will not boot into normal mode, it just loops and keeps
> > resetting mid boot. However, if I keep hitting f8 and then boot into
safe
> > mode the system will boot and load windows.??
> > So in safe mode I uninstalled the drivers for my graphics card (geforce4
> > mx
> > 440) and removed the device from device manager. Reset and it booted
into
> > normal mode.
> > It seems that the system will only boot into normal mode when there are
no
> > drivers installed for my card, however, even if I install the standard
> > windows display driver the system will loop again next time I reset.
> > I can only seem to boot into normal mode with no drivers installed.But
as
> > soon as it resets with a driver then the boot just keeps "looping" until
I
> > turn the thing off!!
> >
> > Has anybody got any suggestions as I have been trying different things
for
> > over a week now and am getting pretty fed up to say the least!!
> >
> > Thanks, Neil.
> >
> >
> It is probably your graphic card to blame. If the card is working fine on
> another computer, then it may be the AGP settings of your mobo to adjust.
> Turn Fastwrite off, set AGP to 4x and aperture size 64MB or 128MB.
>
>

Make sure you have the latest driver installed for the AGP controller before
installing the card again.