ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Boot Problems...

[OlenGarn]

Hey all,
I bought an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, installed it into my computer, and the computer failed to boot. The HDD Activity (red) LED was lit, but the Power (yellow) LED was not, I took the card out, and it booted just fine. Before you say that my system just isn't compatible with the card I will show you the System Requirements of the card vs. My System's Specs.

Requirements: Computer's Specs:

Connection to an (at least) Connection to a 300 watt
300 watt power supply power supply

Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/
Celeron™, AMD® Intel Pentium 4 2.0ghz
K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP®

Free AGP 2x/4x/ or 8x port Free (working) AGP 4x Port

128MB of system memory 736 MB DDR System Ram

So, According to my system specs and the requirements, it should work on my computer. I tested it with a more powerful PSU, but same result, I tested it in another computer, and it worked fine (2.8Ghz Celeron, 2GB DDR Ram, 450W Power supply, AGP 8x Port).
I have tried everything I can think of, and have come up dry, so if anyone has any other ideas, I would appreciate them.

-Olen Garn

 

[micker377]

I took the card out, and it booted just fine"

What are you booting with if you take the new card out?

 

[OlenGarn]

I forgot to mention that my motherboard has an intergrated S3 ProSavage DDR video card, sorry about that.

-Olen Garn

 

[kiddpete]

Did you disable the integrated video, and remove all drivers? Did you connect a power connection to the 9700 pro? When you tried a new PSU, how powerful was it? It worked with a 450 watt in your 'other' system.

 

[OlenGarn]

Thanks for the reply kiddpete, I have some answers for you:

Did you disable the integrated video and remove all drivers?

On this motherboard (Very simaler to the EliteGroup P4VMM,

http://www.baber.com/baber/411/ecs_p4vmm.htm

) there is no way to disable the onboard video, either by jumpers or through the BIOS. I did, however, try deleting my video drivers before testing the card.

Did you connect a power connection to the 9700 pro?

Yes, I did, I also tested the cable that came with the card with a hard drive and a floppy drive (it is a HD power cable splitter, into 1 HD Power cable and 1 Floppy drive power cable).

When you tried a new PSU, how powerful was it?

It was a 450W PSU

I am beginning to think that it is an issue with this specific MB, so I proveded a link to one that I *think* is it.

Any and all help is appreciated,
-Olen Garn