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  • Need Help on Dead G200

    Try the video card in a different computer if you can. If it works, you are not having a problem with the video card.

    Are you getting any beeps on POST? How many and log or short in duration?

    [This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 27 October 1999).]

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    Go read Greg's (GBM's) G200 bios story....he may have the answer you need...

    http://grafi.ii.pw.edu.pl/gbm/matrox/

    [This message has been edited by Kruzin (edited 27 October 1999).]
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    • #3
      Need Help on Dead G200

      Hello All,
      I would like to know if there is any way to revive an apparently dead Matrox G200 (8MB SGRAM) AGP. I was using the 5.30 drivers and upgrading the bios of the video card per the instructions with bios_104.exe. I made the emergency rescue disk, and clicked OK to upgrade the bios, but the system immediatly froze. I left it that way for 3 hours, thinking the update would take that long, then I shut it down. I restarted with the rescue disk, but the floppy drive just makes a spinning noise, and there is no image on the monitor. A red led on the monitor tells me there is no signal being received from the video card. I left the rescue disk in the drive for four hours, but was not successful in reviving the card.

      Has anyone had a similar experience? Is there a way I can revive the card?

      My system specs are below:
      Video: Matrox Millennium G200 8 MB SGRAM AGP
      original bios version 3.45
      MB: FIC 503+ r.1.0 MVP3 "CD" version
      MB Drivers: VIA 4 in 1 v.4.14 (except W98 bus master)
      CPU: AMD K62-350 not o/c
      Memory: 128 MD SDRAM PC100
      HDD: Maxtor 10GB
      Sound: Diamond Sonic Impact S90 PCI
      Fax/modem: Shark MM 56k V.90 ISA
      I/O card: Amedia Super Parallel Port
      Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 5c

      Any help would be appreciated.

      Thanks,
      roadrunr

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      • #4
        Thank you for your replies. At this time I have no PC speaker because the wires broke off from the many connecting/unconnecting over the years. I could not tell how many beeps. Another AGP card works. I used the dead bios recovery instructions given in the website provided by Kruzin, and now the Matrox card is back in use.

        Thank you again for the help.

        roadrunr

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