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jeffkrol
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 Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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www.qualiteitems.com/images/control.jpg
All board drivers were installed and on the surface they look to be "in place" . Should probably check Chaintech for updated drivers. Only used the ones on the CD.
One minor thing is in digging through "stuff" the irq of the vid is shared w/ part of the VIA usb2 chipset. I wish that Chaintech would not have used the VIA chip as there have been a number of problems regarding them in the past though I have personally not had any. Really counting on that new vid card.
Reformat/reinstall would really benefit me. This systems been through 4 MB changes and countless other changes without it. Sometimes I even wonder why it's still standing.
MSI board was also a nVidia chipset (older). THAT transition (VIA to nVidia) was rather painfull at the time but didn't need (probably could have used) a reformat/reinstall.. |
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Radiohead57
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I guess outside of all the ground thats already been covered I'm fairly certain that the reformat and reinstall would correct the shared IRQ if ACPI is enabled in the bios during the reinstall. Thats one of the places where systems come unglued without the reinstall. Not much more I can suggest at this point. What oder did you install the drivers in? That makes a huge difference when setting a system up from scratch. OS> chipset>DX9C>vidcard drivers. If not in that order all sorts of weird stuff can happen with the vidcard. |
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jeffkrol
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject: /sos switch in boot.ini |
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NEWEST TWIST IN THIS TALE.
With nothing to lose I tried a few of the other boot.ini switches. Guess what? By using only the SOS switch (no /basevideo) I get a "normal boot". albeit a bit slow sice XP has to go through whatever it does w/ that switch. Maybe a video timing issue at boot or a corrupt splash screen? At least now I get full vid driver loading. And I don't have to readjust my refresh rate/ resolution.
Did I mention I was confused 
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Radiohead57
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Now thats real weird. Mark another one for computers.
Computers 1,426,374,635 VS Humans 0 |
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jeffkrol
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got a new 8x vid card today. will let you know what happens. Will also try a "normal" boot beforehand to see if what was ailing it got "fixed". Not counting on that one though. Here goes nothing.
Addendum: 8x card..same deal sigh..............
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jeffkrol
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I have now chosen to live with the problem. Till it really bugs me. As long as I don't reboot then I won't know it exists.... |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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Men, it is really anying to boot your CPU 5 or more times until get it to work, it boots ok, but just when the login dialog beging to display, *blank*, the screen turns off, and you have to reboot.
At firts I was like you, ok while the system worked, but in the night or after some install... the anoying process started again, and every time gets more fustrating.
your problem may lay on this:
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AGP Controller
AGP Version 2.00
AGP Status Enabled
AGP Device nVIDIA Quadro4 550XGL
AGP Aperture Size 32 MB
Supported AGP Speeds 1x, 4x, 8x
Current AGP Speed 1x
Fast-Write Supported, Enabled
Side Band Addressing Supported, Disabled
Last reboot I dropped the AGP speed to see if it helped, that's why it's at 1
.1 volt increase didn't help. Sideband addressing is "auto" in BIOS.
Maybe new BIOS only works w/ 8x cards??????
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I have a mobo Intel845 with a GeForce 6600GT and has/have the exactly "stupid/anoying" problem the last 11 months.
I managed to reduce it when I identified:
my bios seems like cannot handle Fast-Writes nor SideBandAddressing, even when the information applications say it is enabled, in the bios setup i can't disable them.
The only solution I found after 8 months of trial and error (downgrading drivers, enabled registers, reading forums, etc) is to install RivaTuner and in the AGP tab I disabled Fast Writes and SideBand Addressing, then clic on the "apply AGP setting on startup" (or you can also try coolbits and doit on the nvidia-drivers-page)
this solved my problem until the 80.95 forceware driver, with which now I having the same problem, sometimes boot sometimes not, so i will have to downgrade to 77.77 until I find a solution. But in the previous months, I worked flawesly. |
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jeffkrol
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: PROBLEM SOLVED believe it or not........ |
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Turns out NTLDR that was loaded by my XP SP2 upgrade didn't want to play nice. I just extracted the NTLDR file from my original XP CD (pre-SP! even) and installed it to root. Wow....... no more modified boot. Everything is NORMAL. Go figure huh...... |
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