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Name: Gary
I built my first system and used:
ECS K7S5A motherboard / athlon xp 2000+
Chaintech GeForce 5200 FX 128mb DDR AGP card
Crucial 256mb DDR PC2100
80gig WD 7200RPM harddrive
sony CDRW
350watt power supplyafter booting up the new machine it recognized the drives and i was up and running in no time. I installed some drivers for my motherboard, agp card, and modem and everything seemed to be working correctly. later that evening the pc froze up and I had to hit the reset button. Since then i have not been able to start windows with the graphics adapter drivers installed. the machine posts fine and begins to boot windows 2000 pro up to the point that the login screen should pop up then the screen changes to nothing but a bunch of horizontal lines and it goes no further than that. i can boot in safe mode and uninstall the drivers for the geforce card then reboot and windows will load. but i cannot use the video card. I have downloaded several different drivers for the device with no luck and have reseated the video card, the ram and checked for loose cables or connections all through the PC. If anyone can help me out I would very much appreciate it. Thanks.
Have you unistalled all the card's drivers, then removed the card and reset the bios by using the JP4 CMOS jumper before you reinstall the video card into the AGP slot? Then restart and enter the BIOS to check the settings in the PCI PLUG and PLAY SETUP of the BIOS to make sure the primary graphics adapter is set to AGP. If you are using the Load Optimal Settings or Load Best Performance Settings, only use OPTIMAL. If you use it, you have to go back to check the AGP setting, or any other setting that you manually configured.
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I had the same trouble. According to PNY or whatever, this problem is because your AGP port is not a 2.0 (it's probably a 1.0), or your power source isn't at least 300 watts.
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I have the same FX5200 video card and ECS motherboard that you have. The only difference is my video card is made by MSI, and it is working just fine.
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the manual for the motherboard says that i have a 2.0 compliant agp slot. and my power supply says its 350 watts. i used the cmos jumper to reset the bios after removing the agp card, plugged it back up and booted up but after i installed the driver i got the horizontal lines again the next time i reboot just before windows makes it to the logon screen. i don't know what to do. i can't understand how it could work for a day perfectly and then stop working without any other hardware changes. any other suggestions are welcome.
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Most electronic components fail when they are first used, or they work forever. I would take it back and let the dealer test it, if you do not have another computer to try it on. It is either the card or the motherboard, my bet would be on the video card from what you have described.
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i just bought one made by xfx ( pine ). Mine works good and was really buggy till i threw the newer driver at it. Im wondering , in the control panel under display , under advanced options is a clock speed adjuster. The card speeds are 250 core and 333 memory under the 2d setting. i was farting around and noticed a 3d setting. This bump my clocks to 303 core and 443 memory. i thought great , this is awesome , then after a few games of something my computer rebooted and went back to the old clocks. im wondering , sound i leave it alone or should i attach fan and compound to chip and giver. any answers are apprecaited. thanks.
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