AGP card not working.

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I recently removed an AGP display card from my computer to try it in another PC, it didn’t work in the other PC, and when I put it back in my own it didn’t work there either, no settings had been changed, assuming the card had blown due to static damage I bought another AGP card, this did not work either. The symptoms are (with all cards); 1 long 2 short beeps at POST, followed after an interval by 8 short 6 short 8 short 9 short then a repeating series of 8 short beeps, and no display what so ever.

I have now tried 3 AGP cards one of which I know to be working, with no luck. I have tried setting display to 16 colours 640x480, and the adaptor to standard display adaptor.

System:
Win98 SE,
Athlon Thunderbird 800,
128 meg RAM,
M/Board 663as,

VIA KT-133 chipset,

BIOS-Info, c't/Andreas Stiller, 10/97

Computer ID : FC, Type : AT
BIOS Date : 08/04/00
Award BIOS found : Award Modular BIOS v6.00PGN
Award ID-String : 08/04/2000-8363-686A-6A6LMJ19C-00,

Monitor Prinston Graphics EO 710

Display adaptors tried:
ATI rage 128.
]
Mercury TNT2 m64, (NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64).

Jetway Wonder TNT2.

Please HELP!

P.S. System works fine with a PCI card.

 

[butchrecon]

try 2 things.

1 reseat the card
2 make sure the card is fully seated into the agp slot. even a slight pull out tword the back of the card can cause the Video error. Sometimes when you screw down the agp card the other end pulls out a bit. Just push down on the back of the card AFTER you screw it down to ensure it is in. James Collins
Systems Support Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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