No Video on Powerup

[LCPump]

I run Win2K on an Athlon 1800+ and ECS K7S5A board. Video is an older Voodoo 3000 AGP. When I initially powerup, the system aparently doesn't complete the startup process, and there is no video (but monitor LED is green, so I guess there's a signal). All I have to do is hit RESET once, and the system reboots just fine and stays Ok as long as it's powered up. I have the latest SIS chipset drivers installed, and AMD's patch, as well as the original 3DFX drivers (not 3rd party). Any ideas as to why only on powerup it doesn't run? Thanks in advance.

 

[jared5494]

this one is very tricky so ill give my advice but also a bump.

heres one theory. try this:

-it could possibly be an irq conflict. go into your bios and make sure you have the bios configure the irq's. if it has already, find out which irq your video card is on (could be located in ur manual or on their website) and give it a special irq to itself!

hope i helped
-jared w

 

[Neo81]

Do you get any beep's when you tunr your pc on? It possible could be just needing a reseat, if you have onboard video try and plug the monitor into that and see if that works, could be turned on in hte bios... ahhh other then that it could be memory, cpu, m/b, I don't think it would be a IRQ conflick as agp/pci don't really get them unless there is ISA cards installed aswell ......


Later
NEo81 >:O>

 

[mudskipper]

Very often, this will happen if one device is not initializing at the same time everything else is. A reset will then pop all devices into sync w/ each other (more or less).

You can try unplugging devices that are unneeded for POST until you find the culprit. Bear in mind, however, that this can be anything (drives, MB, cards, etc).

This may or may not be your issue, but definitely worth some consideration.


Good luck