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BIOS fixed, now stuck in 16 color, 640X480
Thanks to Hunsow having current PINs files posted on his page, I got my folks G400 DH fixed and mailed back to them, flashing it to the current BIOS release (1.6-??) in the process. Booted it up in my machine, everything worked fine. So, I express mailed it back to them (very carefully packaged), Dad put it back in the system and... As soon as Win loads, it gives that damn error message - "There is a problem with your Display Adaptor, it does not support your current settings...".
Now, I have had this happen before with my G200 when doing a fresh install or completely removing all PD settings / files, then reinstalling PD. Basically, 16color, 640 is below it's recognized settings, so I just set it to 16bit color, reboot, and everything is fine, I can then set the resolution as high as I like. This is the first thing I tried with Dad, no dice. So, I thought maybe there was a "conflict" between the new G400 BIOS and the timings in System BIOS. Had him go in and reduce the timings for the AGP bus (Master 1WS read, etc). AGP 4X would never work on this board, so it has always been disabled, along with Fast Write support (of course). Still no dice. This is driving me nuts cuz I don't know what happend and cuz I'm having to try and walk Dad through troubleshooting it over the phone. I know it's not the card since it worked fine in my system and I'm pretty sure it's not otherwise hardware related, seems as though Win has gotten confused somehow. Anyone able to help?
Affected system: Abit KA7 (beta BIOS ry.b01), K7 750 (@750 for the time being), 128MB Mushkin RAM, G400 DH vanilla (BIOS 1.6, PD 5.52, non-OCed, 4X capable). Using Via GART 4.03 and Inf update 1.02.
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"I wrestled with reality for 27 years and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it."
Now, I have had this happen before with my G200 when doing a fresh install or completely removing all PD settings / files, then reinstalling PD. Basically, 16color, 640 is below it's recognized settings, so I just set it to 16bit color, reboot, and everything is fine, I can then set the resolution as high as I like. This is the first thing I tried with Dad, no dice. So, I thought maybe there was a "conflict" between the new G400 BIOS and the timings in System BIOS. Had him go in and reduce the timings for the AGP bus (Master 1WS read, etc). AGP 4X would never work on this board, so it has always been disabled, along with Fast Write support (of course). Still no dice. This is driving me nuts cuz I don't know what happend and cuz I'm having to try and walk Dad through troubleshooting it over the phone. I know it's not the card since it worked fine in my system and I'm pretty sure it's not otherwise hardware related, seems as though Win has gotten confused somehow. Anyone able to help?
Affected system: Abit KA7 (beta BIOS ry.b01), K7 750 (@750 for the time being), 128MB Mushkin RAM, G400 DH vanilla (BIOS 1.6, PD 5.52, non-OCed, 4X capable). Using Via GART 4.03 and Inf update 1.02.
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"I wrestled with reality for 27 years and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it."
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