HELP!!! I think my G200 died!?!?!

[Dude]

OK-

The system I use the G200 in is not coming up. At first boot, I don't even see the BIOS screen. I hear the disk drives turning and then it waits for about 30 seconds and it then automatically shuts down.

Tried a number of things:

1) Re-seating the G200.
2) Trying a different monitor.
3) Pulling out all extra cards: modem, sound card, network card.
4) Nothing is obviously cracked or broke on the G200.

I first noticed things going wrong the other day. When I went to restart ther computer, The bios screen never came up and the computer shut down. Cycled the power completely and let it sit a few minutes and, the next time it booted up just fine.

I haven't been stressing anything with overclocking. Everything is running at normal speeds.

I'm sure when I get another Video card (I don't have one here) and swap it out, this will answer my question "Did my G200 DIE?"

But,.. Does this sound like a dead video card????

[Dude]

I forgot the system specs:

Win 98, FIC2013 Motherboard, 64 Meg, 350 AMD K6-2 3DNOW!! (100x3.5), G200, Hard drive, CDROM.....

One thing I realized, G200 Video Card BIOS, maybe it's bad. This will be my next step.

[everettes]

Try booting without the video card and see if it shuts down or loads Windows(You should be able to tell that from disk activity). If it still does shut down, then you'll be able to rule out the G200.



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[moreau]

Um, Nuno, I agree the computer will beep,
but displaying a message to tell you there is no video card ...

[Wombat]

Things to check in BIOS: (you'll probably need to borrow a PCI or ISA video card)

Primary Video: AGP (not PCI)
AGP Triggering: Level (not Edge)

[Nuno]

moreau: Of course, that´s precisely the point I was trying to make...

[Digital_Hell_Native]

I had the same problem a few month ago... I overclocked my Celeron a little to high and suddenly my Marvel was black...

Well I was lucky and had another video card (my good old Mystique) and by coincident I found out that the G200 worked as second monitor in Windows...

Wooohoww... so it was not completly f****d...
When I checked my bios it said something like VGA disabled. Hmmm... I searched the Internet (I found Murc) and got help on another page http://grafi.ii.pw.edu.pl/gbm/matrox/
it has all information to save your Card and resetore your bios...

Good luck...

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[This message has been edited by Digital_Hell_Native (edited 15 November 1999).]

[Nuno]

erm... correct me if I´m wrong, but doesn´t a system require a video card in order to boot? Without one it won´t boot, it will beep to display an error message.

[PaulS]

You can disable that in CMOS , but it's going to be difficult without being able to see anything!

Paul

[Dude]

FIXED!!!! Looks like the G200 lost its BIOS. This was the second time I had to re-program the BIOS on this card!?!?!?

The flash memory on the g200 must not be write protected via software. They lose data way too easily!!!

[Bixler]

Before you curse the card, consider...

If you hadn't had this forum to check, and all of the help that others provide, where would you be???

Probably like all of the rest of us, who have probably spent hundreds throwing out cards and other stuff that is simply in need of a little tweak.