G400 System Failure

[Christopher]

My 32Mb SH G400 isn't working at all...

Once inserted into the motherboard, the system will not boot. The monitor doesn't go out of standby, and while you can hear the BIOS initialising the HDD and CDROM, it stops before it boots to windows.

I have the latest drivers for my BioStar motherboard (yeah I know it's crap).
The card is not faulty, as I have installed it on a mate's computer with no problems. His also had an LX chipset, but was an Intel MoBo...

I have removed all other peripherals with the same results. A standard S3 AGP card works fine on my computer, so I assume the slot is working...

Any help would be really appreciated.

My Setup:

Pentium II 266
128MB SDRAM
6GB Quantum Fireball HDD
24x Sony CDROM
8x/2x Sony CDR
Soundblaster 16
Biostar M6TLC (LX) MoBo

Cheers

[Speedy]

dust or piece of shit mobo
probably dust or bad agp slot

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Matrox Millennium G400 Dual Head - English
Resolution 800*600
Color Depth 16-bit Color
Frame Buffer Triple buffering
Refresh Rate VSync Off
CPU Optimization AMD 3DNow!(tm)
3DMark Result 5420.49 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9142.76 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2206.33 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 63.58 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 47.24 FPS
Processor Type AMD-K7(tm) Processor
Processor Speed 500 MHz
Physical Memory 128 MB

[Jorden]

have you pushed in the vard really good??

check http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum5/HTML/005078.html for some additional comments...

[Chucky Cheese]

how about your power supply!!!

[Brian R.]

I fixed a similar problem by setting my AGP aperture to 128 or 256 MB. When it was set to 64 MB, no boot.

Brian

[Ron]

If you are running an LX chipset mobo you will probably have problems as most of them had inadequate power supply for the AGP slot. This will be specially noticeable if the board has linear voltage regulators instead of the switching regulators as they supplied even less current for the AGP. You could try and come up with a fix similar to that for the Abit and ASUS LX boards if you are currently stuck with that mobo.

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BX6r2, 128MB PC100, C366A@567, Pan DVDwHollywood+,Pan 4X SCSI CDR, WangDAT, Quantam UDMA HDs, Fireport 40 UW, SBLive!Value (attached to bi-amped TEAC/Hitachi multimedia system), SMC Intel 21041 NIC, etc. G200 Mystique as well.

[Christopher]

Thanks for your help,

I've tried cleaning the MoBo, the card and pretty much everything else near the computer but it still didn't work.

I've even checked the voltages on all of the Regulator IC's on the MoBo, but none of these dropped when the card was attached - I assume that means the power supply is adequate.

As a final solution, i'm swapping MoBos with my mate whose computer I tested it in earlier.

Thanks again for you help.

Christopher