First post, don't shoot me! :)

[PseudoUberGeek]

Hiya,

I have a question regarding a Geforce 4 with DDR Ram.

I recently bought one in an emergency, and now have it as a spare, seeing as my original gfx card didn't bite the dust after all. However the new card did not want to work in my motherboard (A-bit KT-7). The new card is a Geforce 4 MX440 with DDR Ram.

Question is, (and it's probably a silly one) is my new card incompatible with my old motherboard? Bearing in mind the A-bit KT-7 is about 3 years old now and uses SD-RAM in it, or is there something I need to update to get it to work?

I say "don't shoot me" in my subject, as everyone has to start somewhere, even if it is as a "clueless newbie"

Thanks!

~A~

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[GeneticWeapon]

When you say it didnt work, you need to be more specific.
Did you get a black screen? did you get corruption?
If your motherboard is at least AGP 2x, then there shouldnt be a problem. If you installed the card, turned on your pc, the screen stayed off but your pc sounded like it booted normally(normal beeps/floppy check noises) then your power supply is weak. To find out, pull all of your pci cards, but leave the video card in, boot the pc and see if the screen comes to life.

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[PseudoUberGeek]

Oops!

Got a black screen, no beeps, no POST, no nothing.

Previously I had just installed a new fan/heatsink on my cpu (700mhz Duron o/c'd to 750mhz) because the fan had died. I had to take the CPU out to clean the previous heatsink paste off it.

Motherboard is AGP 2x. It should have been enabled at the time, unless it reset itself when i pulled out the CPU to clean it. PSU for the box is 300W, and i also have a Creative 128 Vibra PCI card, and an AOpen 10/100mbit network card, which is also PCI. DVD-rom, CD-R and 2 hard drives in there.

I guess everyone is a bit of a geek in their own little way. Me, I read tech news every day, I carry a USB flash drive around my neck, and I study IT

 

[coolsquirtle]

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[GeneticWeapon]

So, if you put the card in, the computer wont post. If you take the card out, your computer boots normally?
There's something wrong here..

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[PseudoUberGeek]

Well, I tried it again today, and still didn't get anywhere with it. This time I got no POST, one long beep, 2 short beeps. (video error, according to my bios) When I put my old graphics card back in, I got a really wierd beep, started out one tone, then changed to a higher pitched tone... continuous beep. Then win XP spat it's (non)royal dummy and I had to reinstall... it lost my network and sound card. *wasn't impressed, and much swearing was done at the computer!* I've only just now got it all sorted. (I hate computers sometimes!)

But yeah, the new card doesn't seem to like me terribly much. I was wondering if it might have been an issue with it being a DDR ram card (as my board takes only SDRAM). It's not a popular brand name or anything, actually it was the cheapest one they had in the shop when I went to get it.

By the way, my AGP is enabled in BIOS.. I thought it might have been that it wasn't, but I was wrong. When I get around to upgrading my system I might just use the new card in it until I can afford my next gfx card of choice. That is, assuming the card actually works, as I have no knowledge whether it does or doesn't at this point.. lol.



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[daddywags214]

Well, given the bizarre nature of your problems, it may be time to start from scratch. That is, if you can afford it. Some of those old parts could use a good upgrading, anyway.

And squirtle, I TOLD YOU NOT TO AIM YOUR GUN AT THE NEWBIES. NOW GO TO THE CORNER AND CRY.

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[TKS]

Here's what u do. Remove the BIOS battery....it's ON the motherboard...looks like a flat silver coin. Do that and then turn off your power supply on the back of the computer. Then unplug the power cord from it. Wait about 30 seconds for capacitors to discharge. Ok. Now plug it back in, turn on the power supply. Pop the battery back in. Ok, you have reset your mobo BIOS. It will now act like it is just out of the factory and doesn't know what you have for video cards. Make sure you plug your vid card in and seat it good. Make sure your monitor is plugged in. Make sure that the P/S is set to 110/115 Volts and not 220 (switch on back of Power supply...would be bad to boot it at 220 and you might have inadvertantly switched it). Ok, now boot the computer. Immediately go into BIOS. Make sure that if you have any onboard Video, you disable it. Make sure that your first display option is set to AGP. Do not change anything else yet...make sure you save and exit and make sure the computer boots into it's Operating system.
Choose 'safe mode' to make sure it is easier for it to boot.

After you get the computer to boot into the OS...it would be wise to clean out any old drivers because if I were you I'd do a completely new driver install. See if this works for you. If not, It's probably your motherboard that died...especially if you cannot get either Video card to display.

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TKS

 

[PseudoUberGeek]

Hmm...

I've reset my BIOS once before, so I know how to do that. I'm just not willing at the moment to try it again. My system is still going (for now) so I will leave it as it is and not screw with it. (Which has always been my policy...seems to work so for now I'll stick with it!) I get the feeling that something is on the way out, my board doesn't have on-board gfx on it (I tend to loathe on-board stuff), but the new m/b I want to get has o-b stuff on it, most of which I will disable (I did some research and d/loaded the manual, and disabling of on-board stuff is an option, thank god! I'm doing this on a shoe-string budget, so to speak, and the less money I have to spend, the better!)

Oh, and I need to have my PSU on 220, I'm in Australia, and I don't want it to either not work or explode! But thanks for the tip, anyway

I guess everyone is a bit of a geek in their own little way. Me, I read tech news every day, I carry a USB flash drive around my neck, and I study IT

 

[GeneticWeapon]

Here's what u do. Remove the BIOS battery....it's ON the motherboard...looks like a flat silver coin. Do that and then turn off your power supply on the back of the computer. Then unplug the power cord from it. Wait about 30 seconds for capacitors to discharge. Ok. Now plug it back in, turn on the power supply.

Or you could just pull the 'clear cmos' jumper on the motherboard :lol:

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[TKS]

Well GW, some people don't even know what CMOS stands for let alone where it is. But everyone knows where the silver coin like batter and plug in are. The way I explain it, a retarded squid could reset their BIOS.

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TKS

 

[ufo_warviper]

The DDR RAM on your graphics card will not affect your SDRAM motherboard platform solution. WHen the original GeForce 256 debuted, it had DDR RAM and no motherboard on the market in 1999 had so much as a smiggon of DDR RAM, only SD-RAM.

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