G400 Dead :(

[thop]

So it happened, my G400 SH 16MB died It is not in my primary computer anymore, but still, i liked my G400. It gives the same error as if no card was in the AGP slot at all (peep--peep-peep-peep--peep-peep or sth. like that), could this be a dead bios? I can not see any physical damage on the card.

[Evildead666]

is/was the AGP bus anything over 66MHz?
mine lived a very short life like that, a while ago, but never forgotten....

[thop]

Nope nothing overclocked, i even underclocked the G400 a bit (to 115Mhz CORE i think) via PINS.

[UtwigMU]

Have you tried restore utility, my G400 16SH did it 3 times, last time when I flashed my motherboard BIOS, cleared CMOS and swapped HDD.

ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/utils/biosutil/recover.zip

For G100, G200 and G400 series graphics cards only.
This utility will restore your Matrox Graphics card's BIOS to the factory settings. Please read the readme file before downloading.

1 Unzip
2 Make Floppy from the utility
3 power down
4 insert G400 in AGP slot
5 insert floppy into computer
6 power up (don't let no AGP card beeps scare you)
7 wait till it does thingaming on the floppy with blank screen and reboots

Should power up fine.

[thop]

I'll try it But, how do i make it boot from the floppy without the BIOS?

[UtwigMU]

It boots just fine.

Trust me.

You'll hear beeps, then it'll start booting.

You don't need a viceocard to boot a computer.

[gt40]

If you want to see whats happening, insert a pci video card and set to boot from pci video. leave the g400 in agp slot and insert the floppy. boot up and la voila!
I've rescued a couple of g series cards this way.

[thop]

I'll try the PCI thing, my Mystique is still useful then after all!

[thop]

Ok booted up with the Mystique, flash seems to work fine, but G400 still only gives beep beep beep. Time to say goodbye

[Tjalfe]

R.I.P.

[UtwigMU]

R.I.P.

Time for viking funeral.

[Tjalfe]

you could always sell it on ebay... GT98 managed to sell off his clearly labeled dead Parhelia there

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42598&highlight=dead+parhelia

[Che Guevara]

R.I.P

The king is gone but not forgotten...