Cards in AGP slot do not work

[Peel and Stick]

I recently cleaned the dust out of my desktop machine and since then I have
not been able to get my GForce 5200, or an older AGP card to work. At first I
would get the boot screen before the monitor went black. Now I uninstalled
the unidentified video device and I get nothing. I still get video from the
VGA connection installed on the Motherboard (Intel D865GBF). I have let the
wizard search for drivers but none are found. I have reinstalled the Nvida
driver from a CD, but that does not help either. In device manager I also
notice that there is no entry for display adapters.

I have tried to follow the steps outlined in Article 200435, but there is no
\Device\Video entry in HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\hardware\DeviceMap\Video ending in
\Device0.

Can anyone help me get my dual monitor display back up? I would be grateful
for any attempts to help.

 

[Malke]

I recently cleaned the dust out of my desktop machine and since then I
have not been able to get my GForce 5200, or an older AGP card to work. At
first I would get the boot screen before the monitor went black. Now I
uninstalled the unidentified video device and I get nothing. I still get
video from the VGA connection installed on the Motherboard (Intel
D865GBF). I have let the wizard search for drivers but none are found. I
have reinstalled the Nvida driver from a CD, but that does not help
either. In device manager I also notice that there is no entry for display
adapters.

I have tried to follow the steps outlined in Article 200435, but there is
no \Device\Video entry in HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\hardware\DeviceMap\Video
ending in \Device0.

Can anyone help me get my dual monitor display back up? I would be
grateful for any attempts to help.

I would say that your cleaning efforts were a bit too vigorous and you have
damaged your AGP slot. Simply gently blowing dust out of a computer with
compressed air would not have done this.

The only thing I can suggest to you is that you strip the machine down to
the motherboard, check all the slots again, and carefully put things back
one item at a time. If that still doesn't fix the AGP slot, then you broke
it and there is nothing further you can do with that particular
motherboard.

Malke

 

[Brian A.]

I recently cleaned the dust out of my desktop machine and since then I have
not been able to get my GForce 5200, or an older AGP card to work. At first I
would get the boot screen before the monitor went black. Now I uninstalled
the unidentified video device and I get nothing. I still get video from the
VGA connection installed on the Motherboard (Intel D865GBF). I have let the
wizard search for drivers but none are found. I have reinstalled the Nvida
driver from a CD, but that does not help either. In device manager I also
notice that there is no entry for display adapters.

I have tried to follow the steps outlined in Article 200435, but there is no
\Device\Video entry in HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\hardware\DeviceMap\Video ending in
\Device0.

Can anyone help me get my dual monitor display back up? I would be grateful
for any attempts to help.

Check in the BIOS > Advanced > Video Configuration that Primary Video Adapter
is set to AGP and not PCI.

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[Peel and Stick]

Compressed air is what I used, at about 40 PSIG. The Video card was installed
during the blow out. Why would I not be able to find a driver?

 

[Peel and Stick]

Brian,

I rebooted and went into BIOS. The Video Config was indeed set to PCI. I
changed this to AGP, let the machine finish booting and then shut down again.
I installed the AGP video card and started the computer. However, this did
not solve the problem. I shut down again and removed the card. When I
rebooted I got the Found new hardware wizard looking for a VGA driver which
it can't find.

Thanks for the try. Do you have any other ideas?

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

Compressed air is what I used, at about 40 PSIG. The Video card was installed
during the blow out. Why would I not be able to find a driver?

You used the "older" AGP Card before in the same PC? And it
did work? If your answer is "yes", please disregard the next
portion of my reply.

Older AGP cards (I've got a ATI Rage IIC here) have a
different voltage then newer ones, I think it's about 3
Volts, whereas newer cards use 1.5 volts. My manual for a
new motherboard tells me not to use these old AGP Cards as
it could damage the MB. Because of this I had to buy a new
AGP card.

Other then this, I can't offer any suggestions...






Dragomir Kollaric

 

[Peel and Stick]

I'm sorry, I must have scrolled past this reply and just looked at the reply
at the bottom of the page. The "older" card is a GeForce4 MX420 64 MB DDR DVI
TV-out AGP VGA. I have no idea what voltage it requires, or how old it is. I
looked on the Nvida site and found the card, just no spec for voltage.

Are you familiar with this card? Thanks for the reply.

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

I'm sorry, I must have scrolled past this reply and just looked at the reply
at the bottom of the page. The "older" card is a GeForce4 MX420 64 MB DDR DVI
TV-out AGP VGA. I have no idea what voltage it requires, or how old it is. I
looked on the Nvida site and found the card, just no spec for voltage.

My question was/is, did you use this card in the same PC in the
past? Did it work?

I've looked around to find more about this card, and it
seems to be old. Also I re-read your original post, maybe
you should remove the cards again and blow out any dust that
might have fallen into the AGP slot. Another tip, could be
to use some contact spray to clean the contact in the slot
and on the cards, (even though removing them might have
cleaned the corrosion on the card which was in the slot). If
you have the chance, try those cards in another PC.


As to the drivers, you need to get them from the
manufacturer, In the other reply you wrote that it was
looking for a VGA driver, don't know if it would find it in
"system". Sorry my last WinMS installation was 98, and there
I could find the installed drivers in a directory called
"system" on. "C" I hope you have all the CD-ROM for this PC,
as it seems now it just needs the right driver for the card.

Dragomir Kollaric

 

[neil]

When you put the AGP card in do you connect the monitor to the AGP card.?
With a card in the slot the onboard video will be disabled so you need to
use the AGP card for video.
Neil