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I'm trying to use an 8Mb AGP G200 Marvel I bought off Ebay in a dual-Celeron box (Gigabyte G6-BXD) with 1Gb RAM and external SCSI boot disks. I'm running W98SE for this use (video capture).
I started to install it, and got successfully as far as the DVD setup section in the software install. After selecting Region 1 (it was set at Region 2) the system rebooted. At this point the system issued a long-short-short-short tone, which is the error code for "No video display adaptor" detected. The display will not come out of standby (indicating it is not receiving any video drive signals).
Reading through some stuff in various fora I found that the G200 family seems prone to BIOS errors and I figured that the DVD region code change might have whacked it. I've downloaded the Matrox-recommended BIOS update/repair utility for the Gxx family (recover.zip), created a floppy disk and rebooted the system from that. After a while (I think due to the amount of memory I've got in this box) the floppy disk starts up and reads the disk. A while after that the system seems to reboot (as it says it will in the docs) but all I get is another POST error tone code L-S-S-S.
Is there anything else I can do to fix this? I saw some references to some other fixes from a guy called Greg, but the URL in the message (something like edu.pl) is now dead.
Cheers.
I started to install it, and got successfully as far as the DVD setup section in the software install. After selecting Region 1 (it was set at Region 2) the system rebooted. At this point the system issued a long-short-short-short tone, which is the error code for "No video display adaptor" detected. The display will not come out of standby (indicating it is not receiving any video drive signals).
Reading through some stuff in various fora I found that the G200 family seems prone to BIOS errors and I figured that the DVD region code change might have whacked it. I've downloaded the Matrox-recommended BIOS update/repair utility for the Gxx family (recover.zip), created a floppy disk and rebooted the system from that. After a while (I think due to the amount of memory I've got in this box) the floppy disk starts up and reads the disk. A while after that the system seems to reboot (as it says it will in the docs) but all I get is another POST error tone code L-S-S-S.
Is there anything else I can do to fix this? I saw some references to some other fixes from a guy called Greg, but the URL in the message (something like edu.pl) is now dead.
Cheers.
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