PCI card works, AGP card does not

I tried to install a AGP card in my system (ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard,
AMD 2700+, 512MBS Elixir DDR ram) and the system freezes. I can get
into the bios. But when I try to boot into XP, the system freezes.
When I try to do a clean install, the CD freezes after about 2
minutes. When I did a memory test with Windows Memory Diagnostic and
memtest86, the test froze.

When I test the memory with a PCI card, the memory passes no problem.
I can run WinXP night and day with the PCI card and the system is very
stable.

The AGP card is an ATI RAdeon 9200 SE. I tried another AGP card and
got the same result (ie: can read the bios but nothing else).

I talked to tech support and they say as long as you can read the
bios, there is no problem with the motherboard. Seems hard to believe
since that would mean there is a problem somewhere else in my system
that only shows up when an AGP card is installed.

I've updated the bios, cleared it, etc.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help.

Long shot , is your powersupply sufficient ?
Maybe the agp port is broken?
Have you make sure pci1 slot is free?
do you have a nic in other slots?They can have trouble with agp cards.


"MAKO" schreef in bericht
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I tried to install a AGP card in my system (ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard,
AMD 2700+, 512MBS Elixir DDR ram) and the system freezes. I can get
into the bios. But when I try to boot into XP, the system freezes.
When I try to do a clean install, the CD freezes after about 2
minutes. When I did a memory test with Windows Memory Diagnostic and
memtest86, the test froze.

When I test the memory with a PCI card, the memory passes no problem.
I can run WinXP night and day with the PCI card and the system is very
stable.

The AGP card is an ATI RAdeon 9200 SE. I tried another AGP card and
got the same result (ie: can read the bios but nothing else).

I talked to tech support and they say as long as you can read the
bios, there is no problem with the motherboard. Seems hard to believe
since that would mean there is a problem somewhere else in my system
that only shows up when an AGP card is installed.

I've updated the bios, cleared it, etc.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help.

Memtest showed your system memory as no good. An AGP card uses system memory
for graphics and a PCI card does not. I'm guessing your memory is bad.

This may prove to be a valuable test. Boot the system with the PCI card,
then go into the BIOS and set the AGP Aperture size to "0MB" or "off" if you
have those options, and then try the AGP card.

Good luck, Rick

P.S. Your tech support needs a little bit of something called "effort".

"MAKO" wrote in message
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I tried to install a AGP card in my system (ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard,
AMD 2700+, 512MBS Elixir DDR ram) and the system freezes. I can get
into the bios. But when I try to boot into XP, the system freezes.
When I try to do a clean install, the CD freezes after about 2
minutes. When I did a memory test with Windows Memory Diagnostic and
memtest86, the test froze.

When I test the memory with a PCI card, the memory passes no problem.
I can run WinXP night and day with the PCI card and the system is very
stable.

The AGP card is an ATI RAdeon 9200 SE. I tried another AGP card and
got the same result (ie: can read the bios but nothing else).

I talked to tech support and they say as long as you can read the
bios, there is no problem with the motherboard. Seems hard to believe
since that would mean there is a problem somewhere else in my system
that only shows up when an AGP card is installed.

I've updated the bios, cleared it, etc.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks for that information. I didn't realize that. I couldn't set the
graphics memory aperature to zero. 8MB was the lowest setting. I set
it to 8 and I couldn't even load the windows memory testing program
from my floppy. I think you're right. I'll have to get new memory and
see if that fixes it.


On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:41:27 GMT, "Rick" wrote:

Memtest showed your system memory as no good. An AGP card uses system memory
for graphics and a PCI card does not. I'm guessing your memory is bad.