G550 Big Problem

[alfi]

Hi !

Pentium 3
600 MHz

Mainboard: Biostar M6VBE-A
Chipset: VIA VT82C693 Apollo Pro Plus Chipset

256 MB Ram
AGP 2x

Matrox Milennium G550
Sigmadesigns Hollywood+ Mpeg2 Card
Realtek Network Adapter
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live

Windows 2000 Professionell Service Pack 2

11 G550
11 Creative SB Live!-Basis (WDM)
14 Primärer IDE-Kanal
15 Sekundärer IDE-Kanal
10 Universeller VIA-Hostcontroller (USB)
5 Multimediacontroller
9 Realtek RTL8139(A)-basierter PCI
Fast Ethernet-Adapter
1 Erweiterte PC/AT-PS/2-Tastatur 4 Kommunikationsanschluss (COM1)
3 Kommunikationsanschluss (COM2)
6 Standard-Diskettenlaufwerkcontroller
8 System CMOS/Echtzeituhr
13 Numerischer Coprozessor
12 Microsoft PS/2-Maus

Ok. I have this Problem:

I have buy me a new G550 (Bulk). i built it in my pc (i have made a new install of win2k), installing the newest drivers (5.82.018) and reboot. on logon screen of win2k the display freezes. then i reboot in safe mode and deinstalling the driver. i have tried any various driver without success. always freeeeeeezzzzzzze.
i tried all the tips from the matrox tech support forum, without success. then i tried to set the agp aperture size to 8m and it works. ok, i could boot. then i install the latest microsoft certified drivers, because the other drivers i could not set up (windows says "unexpected fault from video card"). reboot. I get the start up screen, then when it trys to start windows using the matrox driver it goes black.
Tried the Microsoft driver, various MAtrox drivers, bios update and other things. without success. also the thing to set agp 2x to agp 1x don't work. and the card is definitely not damaged.
ok, sorry for my bad english. ireally need help. the guys from the tech support couldn't help me, so i hope, someone here can help me.

greets
alfi

[zandor]

According to that IRQ printout your Sound Blaster is sharing an interrupt with your video card. I'd try moving it to a different PCI slot. Soundblasters are known to cause problems with video cards, or at least with Matrox G-series cards. These two definately should not be sharing an interrupt.
Ideally you shouldn't have anything sharing an interrupt w/ the video card, but some boards will get along ok and some won't. From what I've heard the soundblaster doesn't.
Via-based boards can be a bit hairy to get AGP working at faster than 1x on. If I remember right the order for mine (different chipset though) is something like this-
Install Win2k, install service pack 2, install via AGP drivers, install DirectX 8.1, install Matrox display drivers.

Mike

[Greebe]

ALL graphics cards should be on their own IRQ, preferably 9 or above

[Tempest]

Is your computer a Fujitsu system? I did a search on the WWW and most of the references to the M6VBE-A seemed to be related to Fujitsu OEM boards. There were also many complaints about the board not being W2K compliant.
If it is a Fujitsu board and you are sure it is of the M6VBE-A variant then you could try the BIOS update you can find at http://www.fsc-pc.de/support/ by doing a full text search with "M6VBE-A".
What graphics adapter have you run on your Biostar/W2K system before you got your G550?

[alfi]

thanx for ya answers !

yes, it is a fujitsu/siemens system. i have made the bios update from this homepage.
i dont think that an irq conflict appears, because i have tested the card without the other cards.
before the g550 i have had an ati rage 128 card works without problems.

now i have tried winxp, because i have tried to reinstall win2k, but it was not possible. at the point of the hardware detection (mouse, keyboard, etc), the system hangs. mouse i could move, but the setup process hangs up. i've tried this 3x, with same result. so i decide that i install xp.

install points:

install xp
install the automatic windows updates
install via 4in1 driver
install via usb filter driver
install matrox driver from original cd (microsoft certified driver version 5.72.021)

and after reboot, what did i see ?
nothing more than a beautiful black screen (after the xp-start-screen)...

VIA sucks...

any idea ?

greets
alfi

[Sasq]

I don't have a via chipset running 2k, but afaik the XP via drivers so far have seemed better then the 4-in-1's correct me if I'm wrong peoples

Dan

[edwarez]

Config: MSI K7T266 Pro2, Bios 3.60, Via-drivers 4.42, Win XP SP1.
Matrox-drivers 4.72.

Big problems here...
System get distorded now and then... suddenly horizontal lines appear in my screen and i have to reboot WinXp.

install points:

installed xp
installed the automatic windows updates
installed via 4in1 driver
install matrox driver from original cd (microsoft certified driver version 5.72.021)

Any suggestions??

Sasq: "the XP via drivers so far have seemed better then the 4-in-1's correct me if I'm wrong peoples". What drivers do yo mean..

Am so desperate...