A7n8x 2.0 vgasave in Clean install of XP?

[grunge09]

what is VGASAVE? It apparently won't uninstall, and is trying to hog
resourses that other drivers are using.

I did a clean install of XP. Only had a puny Trident 9440 PCI card to
test, waiting for 8x AGP card to arrive.

Problem is that video won't work right. before or after the nforce drivers
of the asus cd, video does not work right. Device Mgr says its a 9440 card,
but has Code 12 resources not available. I turned off the onboard fireware,
modem, no help.

Thought maybe flash bios to 1006 help, no luck so I put it back to 1005.

I have another board (same model/make), and pulled the ram and video off it.
Same thing.

Did another clean install. D/led nforce drivers off asus's web site,
different vid card, AGP 4x 4000xs prophet (that works on other a7n8x board),
same issue, no resources available for video.

Only have retail 2500+ CPU (not overclocked), 256 MB DDR mem, and vid card,
HD & CDrom.

Is my board bad?

 

[grunge09]

Got an update, found out via the mb driver disk, its an ALIENWARE Asus A7n8x
board. I was suprised when the 1006 bios from Asus worked on it. luckily I
had the old bios saved. Little info tool button on main CD splash screen.
gotta love Asus.

Alienwares site is s-l-o-w, looking there now.

 

[grunge09]

Grr...I noticed that the known good board was running win98se and it was
working, so I installed XP, and its doing the same thing as the bad board in
XP only.

Seems something is broke in XP. With or W/o slipstream XP SP1 CD.

VGASAVE reports IO Range 03B0-03BB, 03C0-03Cf, Mem Range 000a0000-000BFFFF.
Had to goto display properties to find that.

I disabled AGB 8x, no help. That piece of plastic is still in the AGP slot.
did not remove that.

Anyone got any ideas?
All in use by PCI Standard PCI-PCI Bridge.

 

[Ron]

Shot in the dark:

Boot into Recovery Console, and type "listsvc' <enter>

If VgaSave is not set to SERVICE_SYSTEM_START, type "enable vgasave
SERVICE_SYSTEM_START" <enter>

If VgaSave IS set to SERVICE_SYSTEM_START, try expanding [vga.sy_] and
[vga.dl_] from the CD to the System32 folder.

Reboot.

Please post a follow-up.
Ron

 

[grunge09]

well after digging and digging on the net, someone said that the voltages on
the a7n8x did not support older video cards at 3.3v. Hmmmm...I only have
older vid cards, safe a gf3 ti200 and ATI AIW 8500dv card.

My new vid card (8x AGP 128 MB RAM on it) came today, put it in, installed
drivers, and <GASP> it worked fine in both Asus a7n8x boards.

Gee don't I feel stupid....Time to get drunk, its the weekend

 

[Alan]

Do you have a PCI video card? No problem with voltage then.
Performance won't be as high,but it will work. I dropped an old ATI 64 into
a board last week, it runs very well.

Hope this helps

Alan

well after digging and digging on the net, someone said that the voltages on
the a7n8x did not support older video cards at 3.3v. Hmmmm...I only have
older vid cards, safe a gf3 ti200 and ATI AIW 8500dv card.

My new vid card (8x AGP 128 MB RAM on it) came today, put it in, installed
drivers, and <GASP> it worked fine in both Asus a7n8x boards.

Gee don't I feel stupid....Time to get drunk, its the weekend

Shot in the dark:

Boot into Recovery Console, and type "listsvc' <enter>

If VgaSave is not set to SERVICE_SYSTEM_START, type "enable vgasave
SERVICE_SYSTEM_START" <enter>

If VgaSave IS set to SERVICE_SYSTEM_START, try expanding [vga.sy_] and
[vga.dl_] from the CD to the System32 folder.

Reboot.

Please post a follow-up.
Ron