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Rage 128 Pro
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Original Message
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Name: Rick A.
Date: August 2, 2003 at 14:23:17 Pacific
Subject: Rage 128 Pro
OS: Me
CPU/Ram: 700Mhz/256Mb
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Comment: I have a friend and i'm looking at his PC, the problem is that the Video Card will not work with the first power up or re-boot, has to be the second. I loaded the driver from the ATI disc and now after the Me screen, it does nothing. I can boot in "Safe Mode", but I can't get the video card to work... What caused it to only work after the 2nd power up and why has it quit after re-installing the drivers????
Thanks for you Help....
Rick A.
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Response Number 1
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Name: harvey
Date: August 2, 2003 at 14:41:53 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Would you clarify 'will not work' please? It obviously does work when you boot up in safe mode. Do you mean the screen goes blank when you get to 'normal' windows?
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Response Number 3
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Name: hervey
Date: August 2, 2003 at 15:45:11 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I doubt if it will work, but you could try going into the bios and disable any `fast boot' option.
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Response Number 5
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Name: Rick A,
Date: August 2, 2003 at 16:37:34 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I don't see any "Fast Boot" in the Bios, where is it??? Also on the first power up, you get no "Beep", but do on the 2nd power up....
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Response Number 6
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Name: harvey
Date: August 2, 2003 at 17:08:45 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)AHA, no beep means that the system did not start. So you `probably' have a flaky connection on the motherboard. Does this only happen in the morning when the system is cold?
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Response Number 7
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Name: Rick A,
Date: August 2, 2003 at 17:11:43 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Any time the first time you power up the system..... "Flaky" connection where the video card connects to the MB??? I have had the board in & out and it fits tight...
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Response Number 8
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Name: harvey
Date: August 2, 2003 at 17:12:32 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)The reason I ask that is because the hardware shrinks when it is cold and poor connections tend to open up. After the machine has been on a while things warm up and the connection can close. These poor connections can be anywahere, even inside a chip.
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Response Number 9
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Name: harvey
Date: August 2, 2003 at 17:16:05 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)It's very unlikely to be the video card. You should get error beeps for video card or RAM problems. You could try disconnecting all the drives and pull all the cards to see if it still fails the same way. Or maybe he could just live with it. :-)
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Response Number 10
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Name: harvey
Date: August 2, 2003 at 17:18:27 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Reseating the mobo power connector would probably be a good thing to try. Also trying another power supply is pretty easy.
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Response Number 11
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Name: Rick A,
Date: August 2, 2003 at 17:41:24 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I have had the Mobo power connector on & off also...Why try another power supply??? It has brand new Ram...
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Response Number 12
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Name: wawadave
Date: August 2, 2003 at 20:50:51 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)hello
goto device manager and see what problems are showing in there go from safe mode. allso the drivers must be m.e compatable.since you stated your useing m.e.
you can install the drivers from device manager.
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Response Number 13
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Name: Rick A,
Date: August 3, 2003 at 09:42:15 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I checked in Safe Mode in the Device Manager and the video cards looks ok and I also updated the drivers from there...But still it will only work on the 2nd power up and I only get the "Beep" on the 2nd power up...
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