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What's the deal with ATI cards and PCI lock-ups?
I've inherited a few ATI PCI
video cards -- most notably a like-new All-In-Wonder 128 -- and they seem to have a PCI bus conflict with my Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI controller. The cards sign on briefly before the HP Vectra boot-up bar appears and the boot continues long enough for the system BIOS to sign on, but at the point where the Tekram card's BIOS normally signs on the screen goes blank and the system locks up solid. The same system boots up normally to Win2K with several non-ATI cards, including a Voodoo3 and an old Creative Labs Graphics Blaster (Cirrus Logic Laguna 5464). The only one of the ATI cards that works normally in this system in an ancient is an ancient Mach64 (early Rage w/2MB VRAM). What gives? The system is a two-CPU HP Vectra XW 6/200 PC workstation upgraded with a pair of Pentium II 333 Overdrives and the latest flash BIOS update from HP. Any and all thoughts are much appreciated -- I've contacted ATI but I thought it might be a good idea to ask the ATI user community too. Thanks in advance! .................................................. ............... Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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Bruce Morgen wrote in
: I've inherited a few ATI PCI video cards -- most notably a like-new All-In-Wonder 128 -- and they seem to have a PCI bus conflict with my Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI controller. hi... i assume that you have made sure that the IRQ settings aren't the same for both? |
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Good Man wrote:
Bruce Morgen wrote in : I've inherited a few ATI PCI video cards -- most notably a like-new All-In-Wonder 128 -- and they seem to have a PCI bus conflict with my Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI controller. hi... i assume that you have made sure that the IRQ settings aren't the same for both? It's hard to check when the system won't boot, but I took care to put the cards into widely separated PCI slots. I was able to boot up to Win2K with a non-ATI card AND the All-In- Wonder 128, getting my video from the non-ATI card -- I then was able intall the ATI drivers from the CD-ROM and get the All-In-Wonder listed in Device Manager. However, when I removed the non-ATI card the system reverted to the same unbootable condition. This is similar to the way my son's old Compaq Presario, where the boot-up process (POST, etc.) was displayed by the motherboard video and he was able to get his Radeon to display when Win2K's GUI came up -- except this HP box doesn't have a PCI slot to spare for a second video card to enable that kind of kludge. Grrr -- frustrating! Thanks for trying to help, I appreciate it. .................................................. ............... Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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