My Leadtek A360 ultra video card starts with Biostar splash screen all garbled before mainboard BIOS post. After a quick ctrl-alt-del during splash it is back to normal and works great from there on out, with no crashing issues. So it is not the power supply. My Antec 480 should handle this just fine as this is not a 6800 ultra but a low powered mid grade video card. I have read about this problem on some older motherboards that were pre 8X AGP after adding the newer 8X AGP video cards. Some people found unplugging the extra power plug/plugs in the back of the card during post and other tricks would get the video card to work. It has something to do with AGP voltage. However, my Biostar (NF325-A7) is brand new and of course has the 8X AGP with soft BIOS AGP control. This video card worked just fine in an older Gateway I had bought for cheap. I am wondering if the Gateway mainboard somehow locked the AGP on the video card to like 1 or 2X. However, my system information says differently. It says that the A360 is running at 8X AGP and passes all trouble shooter tests on my third party trouble shooter programs. I am sure the second ctrl-alt-del is resetting something in the voltage or system in the video board but what? Why is this card crashing right at start up but will run perfectly after resetting the system? If I knew I might be able to address the issue. Oh, I did check to see if there was a BIOS update for my video card that might address this. No such update. Any Ideas out there? Thanks for any help. shellback

Have you tried unplugging the whole system and then plugging it back in? When you say resetting the system makes it work, are you saying you push the reset switch while it is booting? This can't be good for Windows if it has started to boot. Try resetting the defaults on the monitor.

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