Motherboard and Vid Card Problem

Fireman100 · October 27th, 2002, 08:25 AM

i have a massive problem i have recently upgraded from a:
duron 800 processor, geforce ddr to a xp2000 chip with the same card and it now wont let me go above 800x600 and also crashes during games, does anyone know of motherboard incompatibility problems i have all the latetst detonator drivers, but i noticed my new motherboard says its AGP 2.0 compliant and wondered if my old geforce ddr wasnt compatible !!

any help would be much appreciated as im tearing my hair out here

cheers

Tazman · October 27th, 2002, 08:35 AM

Fireman -

What is the make / model of your motherboard?

What are the temps running on the CPU?

What BIOSversion doyou have and is / does the BIOS offer you to set the AGP @ 4x?

BTW, Welcome to TechIMO

. If you aren't sure of where to post your topic, post it in the General Tech - no need to double post, someone hereis bound to help either way

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Maybe a BIOS update is in order here. Also, what GeForce card are you using (ie, GF2MX200, GF3Ti200)?

Mike

Fireman100 · October 27th, 2002, 08:46 AM

my motherboard is and ecs k75sa with sis 735 chipset and and my cpu is running at 37-8*c, the bios version is ? where do i find that - the graphics card is an original geforce 1 ddr 32mb

Tazman · October 27th, 2002, 09:10 AM

I don't think it's a motherboard issue as I checked you're motherboard specs and it said that the board is AGP 4 compliant.

The way to check your BIOS version is to reboot the computer and hit the "Pause" key right as it posts and write down the number (usually on the lower left of the black screen. But I wouldn't worry about flashing the BIOS as it's probably not needed.

I'm kinda confuzed (I don't have quite enough coffee in me yet

). I see that you upgraded the CPU (temps are good) but is the graphics card the same or did you also replace it? If it's the same one that was in the system to begin with and you just updated the drivers to the newest det drivers, you might want to uninstall the drivers and reinstall them. You also might want to update the chipset drivers from

here .

Hope that helps!

Mike

Fireman100 · October 27th, 2002, 09:32 AM

cheers mike im downloading the sis chipset update now - to answer your question it was the same graphics card i had before and it initially let me increase the resolution but whilst installing unreal tournament the other day it just gave up on me and the screen went to a one cm vertical strip in the middle of the screen, when i finally got it down to 800x600 it wouldnt go back up again??

Peter M · October 27th, 2002, 10:26 AM

My bet is that the unchanged power supply unit doesn't cope with the faster and much more hungry CPU (along with the more saturated graphics engine). Or the existing RAM is slightly flaky, errors not triggered by the sllower Duron but with the higher throughput of the Athlon XP. Or you didn't get the CPU cooling right ... countless sources of error before you should suspect the mainboard or drivers. (Drivers are out of the question anyway - if you just change CPUs, no driver change is needed at all.)

regards, Peter

Fireman100 · October 28th, 2002, 06:15 AM

i have upgraded my psu, however i think you might be right about the RAM because i removed my old ram leaving just the new 256 stick in and the game that was crashing without fail didnt crash however this still hasnt solved the display problem it will go to higher reolutions like 1280 x 1024 but not 1024 x 768 why could this be - is my monitor faulty as it died on this resolution without any change at all - it was during an install when it died and previously the screen would shake as if there was some interference?? any ideas anyone

cheers

jerrygarcia · October 28th, 2002, 06:42 AM

Is the monitor going to sleep or is your computer BSOD'ing? I run a few K7S5A's and I had a problem with my monitor going to sleep when I changed monitors,'changed drivers or something. I had to go into safe mode and change the adapter settings in display>advanced settings.

Welcome to TechIMO! What is the Fireman name? Are you one?

Fireman100 · October 28th, 2002, 06:58 AM

no if i set it to 1024 x 768 then it has a strip of about 1 cm down the middle of the screen which is still active because you can see the cursor moving but is obviously unusable its not a clear strip, its more like its squashed the entire viewable area into this strip

thanks for the welcome all seems very friendly this and yes i am a fireman, my name is martin

cheers

jerrygarcia · October 28th, 2002, 07:03 AM

Check my reply above, I edited it. Also, what is your refresh rate set at? I'm also a firefighter along with Fyxxer here at the boards. We work for KCFD.