Video Card Problems

[Gavinclark]

I recently had problems with my PC which were the result of a bad or over stressed PSU. I bought a new one and fitted it and the power related problems have stopped. Now I have another problem

I have a Geforce2 video card which has worked fine for 18 months. I had to temporarily replace it with a crappy 4 meg 2D card because my old power supply couldn't power it properly. I put the Geforce2 back in and it don't work! The card works fine in another PC and I've tried an identical Geforce2 in my PC and still have the same problem.

The PC beeps during the POST to indicate that the card is not working.

Points to remember are.

1. It worked fine before
2. A crap 2D card works fine now - even though it is the same AGP slot.
3. All my BIOS settings are at defaults as they were before.
4. There's nothing wrong with the card.
5. It is definately in properly - not loose in any way.

If the motherboard / AGP slot was broken, wouldn't it refuse the lesser card too?

Any ideas

Cheers

 

[Silver]

Make sure that there is no debris in the slot and check that all of the contacts on the vid card are clean. In a pinch a pencil eraser will clean up the copper contacts on the vid card. Also take a peek in bios and make sure that the vid is set to AGP and not PCI. Also enable bios to reconfigure the hardware.

 

[Gavinclark]

Cheers for the reply Silver but I've tried all that. Knowing my luck the motherboard's screwed.

 

[Silver]

Too bad...I have and keep a old pci vid card for chekcing these types of things out as well as reflashing bad vid bios flashes on the agp. Sorry Guy...

Try one more thing if you would please. You said the other agp card works (the cheap one)....try changing the agp multiplier to 1x and see if it will boot. Disable everything in the agp portion of bios. Let us know please.