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That'd be why I couldn't find reports on your error. A search is only as
good as the info you put in - and I was concentrating on the Radeon/NVIDIA
side of things.
Send me a PM to mad dot mim at bigpond dot net dot au with as complete specs
of your computer that you can give and all the details about the error
messages as well and I will get my boss to look at it tomorrow. Maybe a
professional tech will have some new insight.
MM
"Granny Crabapple" <plumjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Madame Mim" <mad.mim@S.P.A.M.bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> > If you're doing a reformat (XP? Boot from CD - 98? Boot from floppy) it
> > should be fine to have it in right from the start as you won't be
> > accessing
> > any drivers (or anything else) from the HD.
> >
> > I couldn't find anything on the net that sounded like the errors you're
> > reporting.
>
> Gosh. I jolly-well have, though I sidetracked to my motherboard. 8((
> Whaa-haaa.
> Seriously, there are a lot of people out there gnashing their teeth about
> everything from serial-booting, with either a ping, or a click or a
> ding-dong in between to the external modem disappearing if you change any
> hardware whatsoever. BIOS flash available for that. It happens to me all
the
> time.
> I have an Asus mboard and wish I hadn't. Just downloaded quite a few
> Flashes to try including support for AGP 8X. Oh my.
>
> I was quite happy with this computer last year.
>
> The closest thing I could find was an ATI help page explaining
> > what to do if your installation failed. I have included a link here in
the
> > hopes that it may help -
> >
http://www.ati.com/support/installation/removal.html
>
> I really don't think this ia ATI problem. I am moving towards the theory
> that this mboard just cannot cope with the strain.
> >
> > As for a lack of power (or insufficient) you'd get the no video card
> > beep,
> > or the system would completely fail to boot.
>
> Quite. I did mention that the the 'men' but you know how it goes. 'yes,
> dear, now go back to your knitting...'
> Son has run back home and nobody is answering the phone.
>
> >
> > The only other thing I can suggest is that you put the card in and then
> > half
> > pull it out and wiggle it up and down.
>
> 8))) Ahhh! The hand of god!! I can remeber one of my computers in the way
> back when, actually needed to be picked up and shaken a few times when
> things went wrong.
>
> I have never heard of dirty pins
> > causing what you are experiencing - but I know that new Radeons are
known
> > for dirty pins (same as poor seating) and that dirty pins can cause the
> > video card to not detect (beeps)
>
> I will check this... Well i can check the cards connections, but how the
> heck to check the slot? .. No, pin-strip looks golden and lovely and
current
> card running okay.
>
> The thing is the comp IS recognising the card, and listing it. But when I
> start 'download drivers', it tells me there is nothing there to drive.
>
> This is the same problem I have been having with the external modem. It
> disappears and computer says 'you have no modem...' I have been fixing
that
> by unconnecting it, then reloading all the drivers again. A pest.
>
> and the whole computer to not boot at all.
> > All that doesn't explain why it works in your sons machine, but it won't
> > hurt to try.
> >
> It's fun, isn;t it? 8(.... just keep plugging away. For the record, I
am
> now keeping a complete log of every step i take and the result, therefrom.
> Either sooner or later it will work, and I might know why. or I will have
to
> reformat, and no guarantee that the new card will work then, if indeed it
is
> a more serious problem than left-behind NVidea drivers.
> This reason is starting to sound a bit weak.....
>
> I will soon have enough spare bits and pieces to build another computer.
> 8(((
>
> Granny.
>
>
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