[plug] Here's a weird one - not linux but is stopping me cold!

[wayne]

Hello, Bill!

For what it's worth....

I purchased an nVidia TNT2 and had heaps of trouble.  I was able to use it
only in low res/low colour and only after a re-boot (it always needed
warming up!).  Occasionally it did not boot at all.  I lived with it like
that for some time before an RTB (return to base).

The replacement was ditto.  Domain Tech (owner former Dan Tech) assured me
that card and driver were perfect.  I thought not; I always suspected the
driver.  Sure enough the driver on both supplied disks was incorrect - and I
eventually used a driver from another supplier.  Works fine now!

Bill, my point:

1.
It COULD be your card (despite being brand new).  If it's chong and cheap
it's potentially sus as far as I am concerned.  [ I recall the time when I
heard a major chong supplier in Perth advise - with a laugh - another major
PC chong dealer that he had supplied fake Pentiums wayback.]
.......absolutely no disrespect to any Asians among us (wherever "Asia" is.
Where is that country exactly???).

2.
I did a BIOS upgrade (despite being a new m/board).  I do not use "find AGP
first" in BIOS.

3.
I definitely needed a correct driver thereafter.

Regards,
wayne.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kenworthy" <billk at iinet.net.au>
To: "Plug List" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:23 AM
Subject: [plug] Here's a weird one - not linux but is stopping me cold!


> Here's a weird one - not linux but is stopping me cold!
>
> In order to swap some video cards around and speed up an old machine, I
> purchased a cheap AGP MSI nvidia G4 card.  3 times as fast as my old PCI
> tnt2 32Mb by the way:)
>
> However, it will not boot when on its own!  The bios has been set to
> initialise AGP first, cleared etc, but from the "beeps" when trying to
> boot, it is not recognised.  However, if I plug the old PCI tnt card in,
> it boots fine, and uses the G4 - which works brilliantly!!!  Of course,
> not any card will do (also tried an old trio S3 - gets video, but locks
> up when in the system with the G4), it has to be the tnt which I want to
> move to another machine.
>
> So, other than being lonely when on its own, can anyone shed some light
> on what I must do to get this thing to boot on AGP only?
>
> The motherboard is a ABIT kt7a-raid, and I will install the latest bios
> update tonight, but in the meantime, I wuld be interested if anyone has
> seen this before.
>
> BillK
>
> --
> Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
>
>