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Display Adapters, Monitor, BIOS and Device manager (WAS: Floppy Disk(s) Fail (40)
"The Black Wibble" wrote:
But now another problem has appeared. Windows isnt recognizing my graphics card and my monitor. The Device Manager doesnt have any entry for Display Adapter and for Monitor. So can someone give me some hints how to get both in the DM for installing the drivers...? Did you first install the chipset drivers for your motherboard? Tony. Already did that. And in the Control Panel in Add or remove programs the NForce controllers show themselves. But if I go to Device Manager there isn't any entry to Display Adapters and for Monitor. Not sure if it's anything in the BIOS. It's pretty much everything at default per the manual. Changed the Date, Boot Devices, the CPU External Frequency to 166MHz, the Graphics Aperture Size is at the default 64M, and the AGP Frequency is set for AUTO. AGP 8X Support and AGP Fast Write capability are both enabled. Primary VGA BIOS is changed from PCI VGA Card to AGP VGA CARD. Another thing about the BIOS. On boot the option to enter the BIOS only presents itself if I press TAB, right after the beep when the image of ASUS A7N8X Deluxe appears, if I don't press it the SATARaid message shows on and tells me to press F4 to configure the RAID. I only have one hard drive, so I let that pass. (This message of the RAID controller stays on for a few seconds, it's a bit irritating). Then after that it shows the information about the HD, and it changes the screen to show info about the IDE channels, then the PCI device listing and Verifying DMI pool data and it loads Windows XP Professional. This is pretty much the boot sequence. I don't see any message about the AGP card. Shouldn't that be the first thing that appears on boot along with information about the BIOS? |
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When it boots to desktop just install your video card driver and it should
be ok. "JP" wrote in message ... "The Black Wibble" wrote: But now another problem has appeared. Windows isnt recognizing my graphics card and my monitor. The Device Manager doesnt have any entry for Display Adapter and for Monitor. So can someone give me some hints how to get both in the DM for installing the drivers...? Did you first install the chipset drivers for your motherboard? Tony. Already did that. And in the Control Panel in Add or remove programs the NForce controllers show themselves. But if I go to Device Manager there isn't any entry to Display Adapters and for Monitor. Not sure if it's anything in the BIOS. It's pretty much everything at default per the manual. Changed the Date, Boot Devices, the CPU External Frequency to 166MHz, the Graphics Aperture Size is at the default 64M, and the AGP Frequency is set for AUTO. AGP 8X Support and AGP Fast Write capability are both enabled. Primary VGA BIOS is changed from PCI VGA Card to AGP VGA CARD. Another thing about the BIOS. On boot the option to enter the BIOS only presents itself if I press TAB, right after the beep when the image of ASUS A7N8X Deluxe appears, if I don't press it the SATARaid message shows on and tells me to press F4 to configure the RAID. I only have one hard drive, so I let that pass. (This message of the RAID controller stays on for a few seconds, it's a bit irritating). Then after that it shows the information about the HD, and it changes the screen to show info about the IDE channels, then the PCI device listing and Verifying DMI pool data and it loads Windows XP Professional. This is pretty much the boot sequence. I don't see any message about the AGP card. Shouldn't that be the first thing that appears on boot along with information about the BIOS? |
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"JP" wrote in message ...
"The Black Wibble" wrote: But now another problem has appeared. Windows isnt recognizing my graphics card and my monitor. The Device Manager doesnt have any entry for Display Adapter and for Monitor. So can someone give me some hints how to get both in the DM for installing the drivers...? Did you first install the chipset drivers for your motherboard? Tony. Already did that. And in the Control Panel in Add or remove programs the NForce controllers show themselves. But if I go to Device Manager there isn't any entry to Display Adapters and for Monitor. Not sure if it's anything in the BIOS. It's pretty much everything at default per the manual. Changed the Date, Boot Devices, the CPU External Frequency to 166MHz, the Graphics Aperture Size is at the default 64M, and the AGP Frequency is set for AUTO. AGP 8X Support and AGP Fast Write capability are both enabled. Primary VGA BIOS is changed from PCI VGA Card to AGP VGA CARD. But the fact that you can see anything at all means that the gfx card is detected (though as a generic vga device). Do you mean there is no category for Display Adapter and Monitor, or, there is, but no device listed under either? Is there an Other Devices or Unknown Devices category because one of them will have the Standard VGA adapter listed within and you can then update the VGA drivers manually. Another thing about the BIOS. On boot the option to enter the BIOS only presents itself if I press TAB, right after the beep when the image of ASUS A7N8X Deluxe appears, if I don't press it the SATARaid message shows on and tells me to press F4 to configure the RAID. I only have one hard drive, so I let that pass. (This message of the RAID controller stays on for a few seconds, it's a bit irritating). Then after that it shows the information about the HD, and it changes the screen to show info about the IDE channels, then the PCI device listing and Verifying DMI pool data and it loads Windows XP Professional. This is pretty much the boot sequence. I don't see any message about the AGP card. Shouldn't that be the first thing that appears on boot along with information about the BIOS? No. The AGP card appears as a generic PCI VGA device attached to the PCI bus in the startup messages. The card will be recognised as an AGP device when the gfx card drivers are installed within Windows. At least that is what is supposed to happen. I'm sure somebody will bite my head off if I'm wrong. Tony. -- 3GHz P4 (HT enabled) Asus P4C800-E Deluxe PDC20378 IDE/SATA controller ADI AD1985 audio MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (BIOS 4.35.20.22.0) 2x 512MB Kingston PC3500 2x 36.7 SATA WD Raptors 52/32/52 LiteOn CD-Writer 16x Pioneer DVD-120S Enermax 550W PSU Windows XP Pro & Linux Fedora PC-70 Lian Li case w/ side window Hitachi 174SXW B 17" LCD To email me, replace org.nz with net.nz |
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"The Black Wibble" wrote in
news But the fact that you can see anything at all means that the gfx card is detected (though as a generic vga device). Do you mean there is no category for Display Adapter and Monitor, or, there is, but no device listed under either? Is there an Other Devices or Unknown Devices category because one of them will have the Standard VGA adapter listed within and you can then update the VGA drivers manually. Doh! You were absolutely right, it was under Other Devices with a question mark. I updated the drivers under that and now there is category for Display Adapter and for Monitor. [...] I don't see any message about the AGP card. Shouldn't that be the first thing that appears on boot along with information about the BIOS? No. The AGP card appears as a generic PCI VGA device attached to the PCI bus in the startup messages. The card will be recognised as an AGP device when the gfx card drivers are installed within Windows. At least that is what is supposed to happen. I'm sure somebody will bite my head off if I'm wrong. It still doesn't show anything about it in the boot sequence, but that's not really important. I have the option to change to various resolutions in the windows desktop so it's working fine. Going to test some games with it. Anyway, thanks to you, Wazza and KB for helping me out. My new system is finally runing smooth now! |
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