4th Time Spoiled - G400 Max

[Norman Chan]

Hi ! Like to share my problem with you guys. My G400 Max card again spoiled after I exchanged for the third time. This 4th card was working fine on my Win 98 with driver version 600 until I run it on W2K , I installed the W2K driver version 503 , all of a sudden after completed installing the driver - beep,beep - two sound only and everything goes black blank on my monitor.
Anyone encounter the ame problem as me ?

[Nuno]

Try to reseat the card on the AGP slot. Honestly. 3 cards in a row, either you aren´t inserting them correctly, or your motherboard has a serious problem.

[Zwisch]

yeah, it's got to be your motherboard or powersupply. Impossible that your card would fail 4 times... Didn't it ring a bell that it could be something else than the card after the second time??

[Ashley]

Not to disagree, but that wouldn't really explain why it happened *when* it happened...

At least as far as the 4th(!) time goes...

[DuRaNgO]

It is absolutely not the vid cards that are failing, as said before it's definately you mobo or P.S., it's pretty much impossible to get four bad cards in a row let alone two
jim

edit:
as far as when it's happening, it could be once the card has the right drivers it starts to make calls from the agp bus, I would almost bet it's the mobo

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[This message has been edited by DuRaNgO (edited 01 October 2000).]

[Wombat]

Yes, the motherboard is part of the problem. Just be careful, it may be that the PS is bad, and damaging the MB as well.

Is this what happens when the BIOS gets shot? Maybe there's an OC'ed AGP bus involved.

[pchoi]

Try another video card, any crappy AGP card, see if it works with your system. As unlikely as it might seem, Matrox could have sent you the same card 4 times If that fails as well, then it is definitely your system.

[Wombat]

DON'T burn another card in that slot.

[Norman Chan]

Hey ! Guys ,

I'm using the MSI 6163 Pro mobo and the power supply is AMD certified 300W. Before I got this G400 MAX card (the first card) , I had been running with the i740 graphic card and no such problem , also because of this G400 MAX problem I bought an GeForce II MX card and no such problem too. I suspect is the W2K driver that is causing the wipe-out of the G400 Max card bios because for the 4th card I had been running Win 98 for coming to an month , everything was OK until last week I hook it into W2K and installed the driver and "pop !" the black-out start.
Anyone running W2K got this problem ???
In another message board , also quite a number of person having problem with their Matrox card too.

[Brian R.]

Could still be the ps or mb. There are no guarantees, solid gold or not. No one, except you, posting on this board has such a repeatable problem. The card is not the problem. Tell us how you install the drivers and uninstall the other cards drivers. That's a start. Try a different ps also. I think its more likely the ps than the mb.


[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 02 October 2000).]

[pchoi]

You have a i740? Man where did you did that up from? The GF2 MX works in the same AGP socket in place of the G400? Could be your drivers, I replaced my G400 with a MX as well (because of configuration and driver issues) and I haven't any problems since. Maybe you should see if a friend has a G400 that he would be willing to lend you, see if the same thing happens.

[Ashley]

LOL - make sure its a very good friend...

[The PIT]

Haven't we had this discussion before sometime ago?

[Norman Chan]

Hi ! THE PIT ,

Yes , this had been discussed before but like I said it is for info.

Overall , I really doubt is the mobo or ps because like I said before the i740 and the MX card got no problem at all.

[Ashley]

Norman - I suspect you're right and should you get yet a 5th board to try out and it works OK under Win9x, I'd suggest you modify your Win2K G400 driver pack before *manually* installing. Specifically: remove all references to "mgabg".