matrox g400 doesn't work

[Nirvana]

I bought a matrox G400 and installed it in my computers AGP slot and it doesn't turn on. I get one long beep and two short ones, but the computer doesn't fined the card. I have a Gateway
PII 400
128 megs ram
sound blaster live value
10 gig hard drive

[paulcs]

This sounds like a hardware problem.

Open your case, remove the G400, and carefully but firmly reseat it. Give it a good push and make sure it is completely in the slot and seated properly.

AGP boards are tricky. They can look properly seated when they are not.

If this doesn't work, try putting another video board in you machine and see if it works. You might also might want to test your G400 in another machine if possible.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Kruzin]

1)Put the old video card back in.
2)Boot up and go directly to the BIOS.
3)Find the AGP Aperture size. Switch it to 256meg
4)Power down and put the G400 back in.
5)If it works, YAY! This is a known issue on some motherboards. If not, try it in another machine. When it doesn't work there, get it replaced.

[Nirvana]

I tried putting the G400 in another machine and it still doesnt work. My old TNT card works fine when I put in back in my computer. I even returned the OEM (g400) card and got another one and still it doesn't work.....
What is wrong?

[Nirvana]

Thanks you were right I had to go to my bios and change my AGP setting to 256. Thanks alot

[Smiff]

how does kruzin know this all this stuff ? What's the chance of Joe User finding that by himself?!!

[Kruzin]

What can I say....when yer a beta boi, on a mailing list with a bunch of other testers, and a pile of Matrox people (including several techies), and get crazy amounts of mail from them every day, you tend to pick up a thing or two

[scotty]

damn! it's about time i saw that agp apreture size actually make some kind of a diffeerence somwhere!

[Maggi]

Kruzin's one of the good boyz who know what they're talking about ...


Btw, even when you 'only' have 128MB of RAM installed, setting the GAS to 256MB helps to solve such kind of problems.

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450 @ 464 MHz
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Nokia 445Xi (21")
Nokia 447Xpro (17")

Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 100MHz FSB
Celeron 333A @ 500MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")

[James]

I'm with scotty.

What's the AGP aperture do exactly?

I've only read somewhere, I think it was SCISoft Sandra documentation, that AGP apertures shouldn't be set for anymore than the amount of RAM. Why?

Intuitively, I'd guess that it controls the flow of data or memory use somewhere... but where exactly?

What's the potential impacts of different AGP aperature settings?

Maybe Kruzin has this in his bag of tricks too.

Curious George...

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Windows 98SE
AOpen AX6BC Pro Gold
Cel 366 (@550)
64 Megs PC100
Matrox G400 Dual 32 Meg w PD5.30 (@119%)
Sound Blaster Live!Value w Liveware 3.0
Pioneer DVD3 6x

[Kruzin]

http://developer.intel.com/technolog...al/chapt_4.htm

[DarkSyd]

Thanks for the link Kruzin, I was looking for something like that the other day!

[Ron]

Actually that little item with the aperature size surfaced some time ago with the G200. It does appear to happen more on the "name brand" systems than the home built ones.

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BX6r2, 128MB PC100, C366A@567, Pan DVDwHollywood+,Pan 4X SCSI II CDR, WangDAT, Quantam UDMA HDs, Fireport 40 UW, SBLive!Value (attached to bi-amped TEAC/Hitachi multimedia system), SMC Intel 21041 NIC, etc. G200 Mystique as well.

[SteveC]

Kruzin - How can you call around 7-800 emails a month crazy?

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Cheers,
Steve

"The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million-to-one", he said.