Help?! Parhelia troubles :(

[Wombat]

Sounds like Matrox has some QA problems. You think that for $400 they'd have a screen in place for such obvious issues.

[isochar]

Ant, my BIOS text shows just fine! Everything works perfectly up to the point the Matrox drivers are loaded...

I'll set the AGP down to 1 or 2x and see what happens.

[Fenrir(AVA)]

I wonder if it is a bad adapter from DVI to VGA? I have had no problems at all with the card.

[isochar]

My BIOS doesn't give me the ability to switch AGP settings...

[Wombat]

From my own past experiences, $50 says the RAM is overheated/clocked too high. It looks exactly like my G200 when I pushed it too far, as well as other cards I've seen.

[KvHagedorn]

As if there weren't enough teething problems with this baby.. now I have THIS to look forward to!

Hope this is not too common, or there will be lots of people screaming bloody murder...

Damn.

[Chucky Cheese]

isochar

i just noticed that your system and mine are closely matched, i see that you prefer scsi, as do i.

this is my first supermicro board : Supermicro P4DC6+ Dual Xeon(..1.7GHz) motherboard.

right now my g550 dual dvi is running successfully at 4X agp, passes all direct X test perfectly, i sure hope my parhelia runs ok when i get it on the 10th.

i plan on doing a fresh install when i get my card...this installation of XP Pro is OLD!!!

good luck!!

cc

[flee]

iso: what I would recommend is to turn hardware acceleration under displayproperties/settings/advanced/troubleshoot.

If this resolves the issue it coul dmean a couple of things:

1. Driver issues, as your system runs fine until the drivers are loaded. try different drivers. Ant you have a hardware issue somewhere : )
2. Corrupted memory as has been stated elsewhere: ie clocked to high

[az]

Ant, is this your Abit problem, or is this already with the replacement card?

AZ

[isochar]

Decreasing Hardware Acceleration to none solves the corruption. Any step higher will bring it back. I've tried the 223 and 226 drivers, no luck with either.

[Wombat]

What about different resolutions? Have you tried cooling the card down temporarily?

[isochar]

I've tried 1024x768, 1280x1024. I did take a day long break to work on my subwoofer project, and the Parhelia still experienced the same corruption when I came back. (Comp was off)

[flee]

from what you have said I think it is a memory issue.

Do tyou have another machine you can try the board in?

Anyone else have any ideas?

[flee]

have you thought of formatting and re-installing winxp?

[isochar]

I have two partitions, both with XP. Neither have given me a break with the Parhelia. Worst part about it is that I had it sent overnight... now I have a card in my hands that I want to use right away, but can't. Torture doesn't get worse than this.