My system:
FIC VA503+ motherboard, Award BIOS, all patches installed.
AMD K6-2 300 Mhz processor
96 Mb EDO RAM
Maxtor 91728D8 17.2 Gb hard drive,
UDMA Mode 2 Master, IDE 1
Goldstar CRD8160B CDROM, Slave, IDE 1
SAF CDRW 4424A CDROM, Master, IDE 2
Media Vision Pro Audio 16 Basic ISA Legasy Sound card
Matrox Marvel G200 AGP Display Adapter
Matrox Powerdesk ver. 5.41
Matrox Video Tools ver. 1.52e
Windows 95 B
My Problem:
System has been working fine for a year with no conflicts or problems. Installed Powerdesk 5.41, Video Tools 1.52e, DirectX 7.0, and DX Media 6.0 in January with no problems.
Friday, 4-14-00 I was attempting to record video through PC-VCR from a camcorder as I had a dozen or more times previously. During the attempt, I lost control over PC-VCR audio levels. No adjustments to any audio controls had any effect.
Investigated in Control Panel and found memory resource conflicts under Display Adapter properties where none had existed before. Could not alter any of the memory resource settings. Finally I attempted to re-install Windows. During installation, I selected "Standard VGA Adapter (VGA)". After installation, in Device Manager, display adapter showed conflicting device:
"PCI Standard PCI to PCI Bridge".
Conflicting memory ranges:
A8000000 - A8FFFFFF
D8000000 - D8003FFF
D9000000 - D97FFFFF
I was able to change the memory settings so no conflict appears, but when I try to run Powerdesk setup, system hangs on restart.
On second attempt, I left conflicts unresolved, and installed DirectX 7.0. Ran Powerdesk setup successfully, but conflicting device persisted. Reinstalled Video Tools but program hanged system. Attempted to change settings for Display adapter in Control Panel to eliminate conflicts:
Changed:
A8000000 - A8FFFFFF
to:
D0000000 - D7FFFFFF
changed:
D8000000 - D8003FFF
to:
A0000000 - A7FFFFFF
Created a New Conflict:
"System Board Extension for PNP BIOS"
00000000 - 00FFFFFF
00000000 - 00003FFF
00000000 - 007FFFFF
Settings could not be modified in device manager under device name.
Attempting to change memory range of G200
From:
00000000 - 00FFFFFF
to:
FE000000 -FEFFFFFF
from:
00000000 - 00003FFF
to:
FFFDC000 - FFFDFFFF
from:
00000000 - 007FFFFF
to:
FF000000 - FF7FFFFF
Hangs system on reboot. Had to enter Safe Mode and restore automatic settings for G200.
Attempted to change G200 memory range
From:
00000000 - 00FFFFFF
to:
06000000 - 06FFFFFF
from:
00000000 - 00003FFF
to:
000A0000 - 000A3FFF
from:
00000000 - 007FFFFF
to:
06000000 - 067FFFFF
Resulted in scrambled screen and distorted colors and hang on restart.
Changing settings
From: to:
00000000 - 00FFFFFF FD000000 - FDFFFFFF
00000000 - 00003FFF FFfDC000 - FFFDFFFF
00000000 - 007FFFFF FF000000 - FF7FFFFF
hangs on reboot.
Removed Matrox drivers using Matrox Uninstall Utility. Restart prompted installation of "Standard PCI VGA Adapter" which I was able to change to "Standard VGA Adapter".
Removed Matrox Marvel G200 card from system and replaced with Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI VGA Adapter. Restarted system. Adapter auto-detected & installed correct drivers, rebooted, and Device Manager shows NO CONFLICTS.
What could possibly cause the Marvel G200 AGP Adapter to suddenly start conflicting with other devices after a year of normal use? Does this indicate a problem with the Matrox hardware, or some wierd driver conflict? Is this conflict the reason Video Tools would not function and hanged the system when I tried to reinstall it?
And is this covered under warranty (purchased 3-26-99)?
Thanx all for input.
Kevin
KRSESQ@Netscape.net
FIC VA503+ motherboard, Award BIOS, all patches installed.
AMD K6-2 300 Mhz processor
96 Mb EDO RAM
Maxtor 91728D8 17.2 Gb hard drive,
UDMA Mode 2 Master, IDE 1
Goldstar CRD8160B CDROM, Slave, IDE 1
SAF CDRW 4424A CDROM, Master, IDE 2
Media Vision Pro Audio 16 Basic ISA Legasy Sound card
Matrox Marvel G200 AGP Display Adapter
Matrox Powerdesk ver. 5.41
Matrox Video Tools ver. 1.52e
Windows 95 B
My Problem:
System has been working fine for a year with no conflicts or problems. Installed Powerdesk 5.41, Video Tools 1.52e, DirectX 7.0, and DX Media 6.0 in January with no problems.
Friday, 4-14-00 I was attempting to record video through PC-VCR from a camcorder as I had a dozen or more times previously. During the attempt, I lost control over PC-VCR audio levels. No adjustments to any audio controls had any effect.
Investigated in Control Panel and found memory resource conflicts under Display Adapter properties where none had existed before. Could not alter any of the memory resource settings. Finally I attempted to re-install Windows. During installation, I selected "Standard VGA Adapter (VGA)". After installation, in Device Manager, display adapter showed conflicting device:
"PCI Standard PCI to PCI Bridge".
Conflicting memory ranges:
A8000000 - A8FFFFFF
D8000000 - D8003FFF
D9000000 - D97FFFFF
I was able to change the memory settings so no conflict appears, but when I try to run Powerdesk setup, system hangs on restart.
On second attempt, I left conflicts unresolved, and installed DirectX 7.0. Ran Powerdesk setup successfully, but conflicting device persisted. Reinstalled Video Tools but program hanged system. Attempted to change settings for Display adapter in Control Panel to eliminate conflicts:
Changed:
A8000000 - A8FFFFFF
to:
D0000000 - D7FFFFFF
changed:
D8000000 - D8003FFF
to:
A0000000 - A7FFFFFF
Created a New Conflict:
"System Board Extension for PNP BIOS"
00000000 - 00FFFFFF
00000000 - 00003FFF
00000000 - 007FFFFF
Settings could not be modified in device manager under device name.
Attempting to change memory range of G200
From:
00000000 - 00FFFFFF
to:
FE000000 -FEFFFFFF
from:
00000000 - 00003FFF
to:
FFFDC000 - FFFDFFFF
from:
00000000 - 007FFFFF
to:
FF000000 - FF7FFFFF
Hangs system on reboot. Had to enter Safe Mode and restore automatic settings for G200.
Attempted to change G200 memory range
From:
00000000 - 00FFFFFF
to:
06000000 - 06FFFFFF
from:
00000000 - 00003FFF
to:
000A0000 - 000A3FFF
from:
00000000 - 007FFFFF
to:
06000000 - 067FFFFF
Resulted in scrambled screen and distorted colors and hang on restart.
Changing settings
From: to:
00000000 - 00FFFFFF FD000000 - FDFFFFFF
00000000 - 00003FFF FFfDC000 - FFFDFFFF
00000000 - 007FFFFF FF000000 - FF7FFFFF
hangs on reboot.
Removed Matrox drivers using Matrox Uninstall Utility. Restart prompted installation of "Standard PCI VGA Adapter" which I was able to change to "Standard VGA Adapter".
Removed Matrox Marvel G200 card from system and replaced with Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI VGA Adapter. Restarted system. Adapter auto-detected & installed correct drivers, rebooted, and Device Manager shows NO CONFLICTS.
What could possibly cause the Marvel G200 AGP Adapter to suddenly start conflicting with other devices after a year of normal use? Does this indicate a problem with the Matrox hardware, or some wierd driver conflict? Is this conflict the reason Video Tools would not function and hanged the system when I tried to reinstall it?
And is this covered under warranty (purchased 3-26-99)?
Thanx all for input.
Kevin
KRSESQ@Netscape.net
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