In article , dream431ca
wrote:

Hello..my first post!

Anyway, I was at a friends house setting up his new P4VP-MX
motherboardand intel celeron CPU. Everything went fine until
we tried to installthe ATI radeon 9800 pro. Here's what happened:

We put the ATI graphics card in the AGP slot and turned on
hiscomputer...nothing..the keyboard didn't work..the screen
was black butthe motherboard was on the graphics card was working.
We unplugged thegraphics card and hooked his monitor up to the
onboard graphicsprocessor and it worked. I installed windows
xp..shut down the PC andtried to install the ATI radeon 9800
pro again and another blackscreen. I can't even get into the
bios. Here's what I think might bewrong:

-Power supply not large enough (by the way, how can I check
to see howmany watts his power supply is?)

-conflict between the radeon card and the onboard graphics
card (howcan I disable the onboard graphics card?)

Thanks alot.-- dream431ca

The manual is a little foggy on this, but it looks like the
setting that determines how much memory the integrated AGP
receives, also functions as the Disable. Try this setting
in Advanced/Chipset.

"Integrated AGP" [Disabled]

Reading the BIOS descriptions on the download page, it doesn't
look like there have been any bug fixes for this board. So
the BIOS must be perfect :-) And the FAQ page has nothing
of interest either.

Try phoning Asus tech support, and see if they know of any
issues with the board.

If, after trying the [Disabled] setting above, you cannot
get the motherboard to display using the build-in graphics,
you may have to use the "clear CMOS" procedure, to get
the BIOS defaults to come back again. Just remember to
unplug the computer, before trying a "clear CMOS" operation,
to avoid damaging the ORing diode typically used in the
CMOS powering path.

Good luck,
Paul