I need help Crashman!!! Anyone!!

[Empathy]

I just got done putting together my new system, after a bad power supply accident. Everything is running great except it will not recognize my Radeon 9700pro as being in the AGP slot. The card is running at 8XAgp, but in the bios as well as in aida systems, it says agp slot is empty and available. How can I assign it to the AGP slot?

My system is:
Thermaltake Silent-purepower 480+pfc
Asus p4c800-e deluxe
1 gig pc3500 geil ultra dragon
intel p4c3.0
soundblaster audigy 2 plat
winfast tv2000 xp
broadaxent/creative modem

That is all I have on my pci slots. I have usb turned off, no plans on overclocking at all. The other problem I am having is that I can not use the modem while hyperthreading is on.
I apreciate all your help.

 

[arthurh]

Explain power supply accident, like did you short out the psu on the mobo? Please be specific about the particulars of this accident. This will better able someone to help you.

 

[Empathy]

When I first put together the system, I had a vantec 520a stealth psu. When I hooked it up the psu went pop, sizzled and smoked. I went over all my eq soon afterwards, nothing was wrong (whew!!)) . However, I am puzzled by the way the modem is acting and that the mobo will not recognize the 9700pro as being in a agp slot, even though in dxdiag agp texturing is on, as well as showing it in the ATI display. However, it does not say a agp is connected in either the windows hardware, or aida 32. It is set to PCI-1, no matter what I do it wants to rest on irq-16 as well instead of irq-11.

 

[arthurh]

I've seem others post that if the psu goes almost anything can be taken out with it, however, the mobo usually takes the hit and most everything else could be okay. This may be over kill, but, you might check and make sure you only have six stand-off posts under the mobo. While you have the mobo out you might try and placing it on a good surface, hooking it up and then power up to see if anything changes.

 

[arthurh]

I'm just posting hoping someone will help out.

 

[Empathy]

Well, I am stumped. I downloaded the latest 875p drivers from the intel website, reinstaled the video drivers and it is still stuck on PCI-1. Smartgar is identifies it as an agp card and is set to agp8x. Dxdiag recognized it as an agp and has enabled texturing. Is PCI-1 the default agp/pci slot?

 

[endyen]

A few things. First, modems have always been a pain to load. With xp that situation has gotten worse. Have you done an update at all? Has windows seen it at all? Do you have it in device manager, with a yellow or red mark beside it. Take it out of the mobo, then boot and remove it from device manager. If you have not done a windows update, load the correct drivers for your modem into the windows temp file. Do this also if windows never saw the modem before. Now do a search for new hardware, just to make sure there isn't anything else in the wings. Now you can shut down and put the modem in. Windows must find the modem and install the drivers properly, or you will have to try again. If a few tries dont work, i'd look for a more xp friendly modem.
For the video card, make sure in the bios where it says primary video the space next to it says agp. If not, click on it and change it. Is the special power cable plugged into the video card? Many software progs say your primary video is pci when it is agp. Since the card must be working to get that far, run some benchies to test perf. If your performance is good, who cares what some dumb prog says.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Nothing like the smell of fried Psu.

 

[Empathy]

Yeah, I killed the warranty(had to look inside). Some of the connections was barely hooked up. Two lose connections arched and wallah!!! Fried PSU. A shame to Vantec maked great products. I love the Thermaltake I have now, nice looking psu. On my MOBO, Aida 32 is now seeing it as an agp processor and when I play with the settings in the ATI tab it affects the agp info, such as turning off and on fast writes. Of course, I keep it off.
The problem with the modem is still the same with hyperthreading on. When hyperthreading is on, it will connect to the net for a second then disconnect. When I turn hyperthreading off, It stays on the net. I am going to order an asus 52/32/52 and dvd drives. Might as well get rid of this 2 year old modem to.
My days of overclocking is over BTW, I am still going to have a heavily modified case, because they look nice.
I am not going to overclock this board at all. It is fast at 3.0. I can throw any game in it, and have, and it is downrite fast. I was going to add another gig of ram, but have heard PAT does not like 4 sticks. So this one gig of pc3500 geil ultra dragon will do.

Thanks for your help everyone