Radeon 9200SE not recognised on boot

[Simon Bellamy]

I bought a Radeon 9200SE and when I installed it it was not recognised on
boot. However after re-installing it in the AGP socket it worked OK.

Since then there has continued to be an intermittent problem whereby the
card is not recognised (error beeps on boot). This is more prevalent if the
PC crashes and so has to be shutdown by using the power off switch.

I have tried updating the driver and also turning off power management for
the display in the BIOS but this has had no effect. Often the only way to
get it to boot correctly is to leave the PC switched off for more than one
hour.

There are no problems with the card once it has booted correctly.

Is this a faulty card or an incompatibilty with the motherboard?

Anyone know of a solution?

PC is as follows:

Pentium III 1 GHz
Biostar M6VCG motherboard (VIA 694x/x686A chipset)
Award BIOS v6.00PG
Windows ME 4.90.3000
256 Mb RAM
Radeon 9200SE (driver ver. 4.14.01.9150)

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[vellu]

Simon Bellamy kirjoitti:

I bought a Radeon 9200SE and when I installed it it was not recognised on
boot. However after re-installing it in the AGP socket it worked OK.

Since then there has continued to be an intermittent problem whereby the
card is not recognised (error beeps on boot). This is more prevalent if the
PC crashes and so has to be shutdown by using the power off switch.

I have tried updating the driver and also turning off power management for
the display in the BIOS but this has had no effect. Often the only way to
get it to boot correctly is to leave the PC switched off for more than one
hour.

There are no problems with the card once it has booted correctly.

Is this a faulty card or an incompatibilty with the motherboard?

Anyone know of a solution?

PC is as follows:

Pentium III 1 GHz
Biostar M6VCG motherboard (VIA 694x/x686A chipset)
Award BIOS v6.00PG
Windows ME 4.90.3000
256 Mb RAM
Radeon 9200SE (driver ver. 4.14.01.9150)

If replying by email replacee xx with 99 in address

Difficult to tell. One way would be to borrow another AGP-card and see
if it that acts the same way. If it does, it is a problem with the MB.
If not, possibly (but not necessarily) with the 9200.

 

[Simon Bellamy]

I replaced a Geforce MX graphics card in the same motherboard which did not
exhibit this problem. So I know the motherboard is OK. But do wonder
whether it is a compatibility issue and if there is a workaround.

Does anyone have any other ideas?