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January 2, 2002 2:47:19 AM

Building new computer. Antec SX840 case, Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus MB, Althon XP 1700+, 512 mb Crucial DDR SDRAM, Gainward CardExpert GeForce2 MX 400 TwinView, Samsung 19" 950p monitor, Seagate Barracuda 60GB 7200rpm hd, Toshiba DVD/CD-ROM 16/48X. Tried first under Windows98SE and now under WindowsXP. Continue to get degraded resolution. When I check hardware I get message that the MX400 cannot find resources to run. Now I have apparently disabled vga and cannot get it to boot back and get a screen after the Windows logo. Tried Safe Modt, but does not work. I can start completely over if necessary and reinstall everything, but will probably still get the video card conflict info. Any help appreciated.

John

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January 2, 2002 3:08:20 AM

You may have a bad card, or Monitor. More than likly, windows is just not happy. Try starting out on a new slate (yes, reformat) this time, only having the HD, 256 MB of Ram, and the CD ROM drive installed. When the computer goes to input the dirvers for the video card, make sure that you use the generic drivers that come with XP or 98SE. Once you have that working, get all the latest drivers and load them. This includes the Motherboard, Graphics, and any other device that you may be using. Also, try your monitor on another computer, and the video card on a mother monitor. If this solves your problem, great. If you see that the monitor is fuzzy whereever you go, or that other MB do not like your Video card, get another one.

If it works for you then don't fix it.
January 3, 2002 12:36:52 AM

Thanks for input. While my new monitor was still on order and all other parts were here, I hooked up old Dell monitor. At first, got same problem; then, during some reboots, it suddenly worked perfectly and registered my Dell 1024L monitor instead of "default monitor". Then, just as suddenly on the next boot, it was back to vga. When new monitor came, on first boot it looked great; then, added a pci card and everything went to pot again. Somewhere, there is a conflict. Guess I will look at IRQs, etc.

John
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January 3, 2002 2:04:45 AM

Further complicated. Last night, I was trying to get around the display problem and under Device or Adapter or some tab, I took the check mark off of enable vga. Now, every time it goes into Windows, it runs the XP splash screen and then the screen goes blank. I have tried to boot in Safe Mode and all it does is run a line across the bottom of the screen and stop. In Safe Mode with Command Prompt, the screen fills will Partition information, line after line, and then stops. I have tried to boot with an XP boot disk and it ignores it. I have tried Dell Hard Drive setup disks that I used to format the HD originally and it ignores it. The bios is set to boot from floppy first but it ignores floppy and goes to hd. I set bios to boot from floppy 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Then, with the XP boot disk, it says "Boot disk failure - Insert system disk". I am stumped. I would love to reformat, but I cannot get system to recognize floppy now and it was working before. Any suggestions at all would be helpful. Going out of town tomorrow and will not be back until Sunday night, but would love to see some suggestions when I get back. Thanks to all.

John
January 3, 2002 7:47:44 PM

I would love to help but I think that you have more than just a monitor problem at this point in time. I suggest that in order to get more readers, that you go to the motherboard section, or the graphic's card section. If you can get your HD into another computer and reformat it from there, that is all I can give you.

If it works for you then don't fix it.
January 4, 2002 2:03:08 PM

suppress your gc driver in configuration/system.
reboot.
when windows ask you a gc driver select generic vga.
reboot.
update your gc driver in configuration/system with your specific Gainward CardExpert GeForce2 MX 400 driver which is on your cdrom.
reboot.



if you know you don't know, the way could be more easy.
January 10, 2002 9:47:55 PM

Would you believe that even though I had set bios to boot from floppy somehow, without me doing it, the bios in another are had disabled the floppy A drive? When I found that, I reformatted the hd and started over. Now I have have taken everything off the mb except the video card and started back over. I have a good display, fully functional and no hardware conflicts. Do have a "PCI Multimedia Audio Device" that shows no driver and I cannot find out what it is. Oh well, just need to keep plugging.

John
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