EnderAndrew Posted May 26, 2004 Posted May 26, 2004 Okay, this is way off topic. My last system blew up due to poor electrical wiring in my house. It was built in the 20's. Because I'm broke, I went with an ASUS AV7X8-X board. It got really good reviews, I normally really like ASUS products, and I got it for under $60. I threw in a new Athlon-XP Barton 2500, 512mb of Kingston, memory, a new Western Digial caviar 120gig, and a Radeon 9000. The system cost me pennies, but functions pretty well. The problem is that the card won't operate in AGP mode. Catalyst said AGP acceleration isn't available. DirectDiag says the same thing. I've upgraded the BIOS, checked all the BIOS settings, got the latest drivers from ATI, updated DirectX, and got the latest updates from MicroShaft. I ever reinstalled everything from scratch. I contacted ASUS, and they never got back to me. ATI said to do all the steps listed above, but never gave me any support after that. I don't know if my board is bad, the card is bad, or if there is some hidden setting somewhere to turn on AGP support. The board supposedly supports up to AGP 8x, and the card is only AGP 4x. I will likely build a new system in 3-6 months, but I'd like to fix the problem. Any suggestions that don't involve buying new hardward tomorrow, or napalm? (The next hardware purchase is a new case, 450w power supply, custom fans, and then a new 52x QuietDrive ASUS combo drive - so motherboard and video card must wait) Also, for the record, despite this problem, I still stand by ASUS and ATI because I used to build systems for a living, and I've always had great performance out of their parts.
Gorth Posted May 26, 2004 Posted May 26, 2004 I'm not exactly an expert on ATI products and AGP, but I know that around the 4x and 8x generation, they came with different voltages. But then, you shouldn't even have been able to force the card into the slot. Have you tried borrowing a gfx card from a friend (assuming you have those ) and plug it into your board ? Might eliminate one of two possible causes (defect motherboard or defect gfx card). “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
sniggy Posted May 26, 2004 Posted May 26, 2004 hmm. wrong forum. maybe ya oughta post on some it-help board? It's very hard to be polite if you're a cat.
Fionavar Posted May 26, 2004 Posted May 26, 2004 Definitiely check the voltage and definitely see if you can get a second gpu to test the AGP slot itself. If you cannot test with a second gpu - then see if a friend will let you test your video card on his/her rig. Go from there depending on the outcome. The universe is change; your life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (161)
Arkan Posted May 26, 2004 Posted May 26, 2004 Okay, this is way off topic. My last system blew up due to poor electrical wiring in my house. It was built in the 20's. Your last system was built in the 20's? "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta
sniggy Posted May 26, 2004 Posted May 26, 2004 Okay, this is way off topic. My last system blew up due to poor electrical wiring in my house. It was built in the 20's. Your last system was built in the 20's? *g* i think he means the electrical wiring... playing kotor on a mechanical computer would suck, i guess... It's very hard to be polite if you're a cat.
Arkan Posted May 26, 2004 Posted May 26, 2004 Okay, this is way off topic. My last system blew up due to poor electrical wiring in my house. "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now