Asus P4PE-RL + Matrox Parhelia = crap?

[leech]

A friend of mine just got a hold of a P4PE along with a 2.4ghz P4. Only problem is that he's getting only 4600 in 3D mark. I've been able to get that with my Pentium 3 @ 850mhz. Now my only guess left is his Ram. He only has 266mhz DDR ram right now (he just ordered some Crucial memory, so hopefully that'll help) But my other question is related to the "MyLogo" thing that the new Asus boards have where a logo of your own choosing will be the initial thing you see before the bios post stuff..... it's MESSED up in the extreme with the Parhelia.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Leech

P.S. I updated his Bios to 1002, and found a nasty bug in windowsXP. If you have the onboard IDE controller disabled (Which we did because his system is all SCSI) then it will not boot, after the WindowsXP splash screen with the moving bar, the screen will go blank and the mouse light will dim, then extinguish (Microsoft Optical Intellimouse). I finally just had to put in the IDE auto detection and it worked.

[The PIT]

Sounds like clean install time to me.

[lecter]

Hehe, I know about the myLogo and a whole lot of other non-standard VESA problems the Parhelia has...a BIOS update is looming, it's the only way the can be corrected.

[GT98]

I had the same problems with my Asus A7S333 screwing up the BIOS thing. Not sure about with my MSI board though

[Pace]

Yeah, the Parhelia garbled BIOS is a known issue, due to the motherboards using custom modes. Don't worry about it.

[leech]

Originally posted by The PIT
Sounds like clean install time to me.

Those were my thoughts too. In fact I was about to do a clean install (because of that weird IDE problem) but fixed it, so I wouldn't have to. Guess we'll do that sometime during the christmas holiday.

Leech

[leech]

Originally posted by lecter
Hehe, I know about the myLogo and a whole lot of other non-standard VESA problems the Parhelia has...a BIOS update is looming, it's the only way the can be corrected.

Hopefully we can get one of these soon. It's a pointless feature, but hey, I want ALL the features to work

Leech

[lecter]

Yeah, same here...the thing is, Linux bootscreens and other similar stuff are not pointless features...and they have the same problem.

[leech]

Exactly, though I had some luck with the boot screen from RedHat 8 working, but the one from Mandrake 9 looked like crap.

Leech

[Pace]

Is it possible to change the VESA mode that the bootscreens use?

[leech]

Yes it is, actually. Though I personally couldn't tell you how. I did find a FAQ for it at one point. I never use a graphical boot loader anyway, I have just a ncurses one that Debian uses. I don't reboot my computer that often anyhow. I'll see if I can find that again and I'll post it on here....

Leech

Here it is. This is talking about how to put up a graphical boot loader for Debian linux, but should apply nicely to creating your very own custom ones. Good luck, let me know how well it works.

[Pace]

Graphical?

Good luck to me?

It was just a question, not a personal problem.

[2Whyzzi]

Just a thought

Re-install DirectX (Don't un-install it, just run the DirectX installer again). And if it doesn't make you reboot, do it anyway.

Let this thread know if it works. I had to do it for My Radeon 7200/LE just last week and it fixed it.