Help! I've had two problems with my new P4S Dragon Ultra board.
Here's my set up first:
Enermax 550W Powersupply
Soyo P4S Dragon Ultra MB
Intel P4 2.0A Northwood processor
2x256M Corsair PC2700 DDR RAM (CAS2)
Chieftec Dragon Full Tower
Creative Audigy EX Soundcard
Gainward Geforce4 Ti4600 750XP Golden Sample (but using old Matrox G400 currently as you will see below).
First my Geforce 4 card produced loads of screen artifacts as soon as the machine starts to boot through the POST or even in BIOS. Foolishly I blamed the card and have sent it off to Komplett for testing/replacement. I am now getting the impression from this forum that the board may be to blame. While I am waiting for it to come back I have Flashed the BIOS and updated the AGP driver and carried on using my trusty (but slow!) Matrox G400. Do people reckon I have a hope in getting a Geforce4 card to work with this board using the latest BIOS (2ba3)?
Second, I don't know if I'm being an idiot and have wired my machine up to the case wrong but I've got a weird problem. I switch on my machine's powersupply and use the power button on the front of the case and the machine beeps and starts to boot. If I do a software reboot from XP, or press the reset button, or shutdown and then restart the machine the following happens. The power light comes on and there is a brief flash of disc activity and the CD-ROM drives spin briefly but the display doesn't come on, no beep and no boot. The only way I have found around this is as follows - switch off on the powersupply, press the power button on the case, switch off and on on the powersupply and then on on the case power button.The machine then boots fine. There are no other problems such as instability etc. This is consistent every time and always does this. Please point out if I'm missing something obvious, or does anyone reckon there's a genuine fault?
Feedback on both of the above much appreciated!
Many thanks
Here's my set up first:
Enermax 550W Powersupply
Soyo P4S Dragon Ultra MB
Intel P4 2.0A Northwood processor
2x256M Corsair PC2700 DDR RAM (CAS2)
Chieftec Dragon Full Tower
Creative Audigy EX Soundcard
Gainward Geforce4 Ti4600 750XP Golden Sample (but using old Matrox G400 currently as you will see below).
First my Geforce 4 card produced loads of screen artifacts as soon as the machine starts to boot through the POST or even in BIOS. Foolishly I blamed the card and have sent it off to Komplett for testing/replacement. I am now getting the impression from this forum that the board may be to blame. While I am waiting for it to come back I have Flashed the BIOS and updated the AGP driver and carried on using my trusty (but slow!) Matrox G400. Do people reckon I have a hope in getting a Geforce4 card to work with this board using the latest BIOS (2ba3)?
Second, I don't know if I'm being an idiot and have wired my machine up to the case wrong but I've got a weird problem. I switch on my machine's powersupply and use the power button on the front of the case and the machine beeps and starts to boot. If I do a software reboot from XP, or press the reset button, or shutdown and then restart the machine the following happens. The power light comes on and there is a brief flash of disc activity and the CD-ROM drives spin briefly but the display doesn't come on, no beep and no boot. The only way I have found around this is as follows - switch off on the powersupply, press the power button on the case, switch off and on on the powersupply and then on on the case power button.The machine then boots fine. There are no other problems such as instability etc. This is consistent every time and always does this. Please point out if I'm missing something obvious, or does anyone reckon there's a genuine fault?
Feedback on both of the above much appreciated!
Many thanks