Start up problems TOUGH ONE

[daveleau]

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Try clearing the CMOS with either the jumper next to the battery or by pulling the battery. Then make sure that the BIOS looks at your PCI first. You also have to disable the video in the Device Mgr or else the system will see the original onboard video card and not let your PCI VD work. Plug into the onboard to get into the Dev Mgr to disable the onboard vid.

Dave

[djleahy]

I don't know if it goes into safe mode or not. The monitor doesn't even turn on so I have no idea what it's doing. I looked into the idea of reseting the battery but wouldn't I lose everything?

[daveleau]

You will not lose all of your data, but you will lose your CMOS settings. If you are not familiar with them, leave this til last. Try using the onboard video to troubleshoot first.
Dave

[djleahy]

Well I tried both. Removed the on board then rebooted with the card. Still beeped. Then I took out the battery for about 20 minutes and rebooted. The CMOS was reseted but still the same problem. What do you think could be wrong?

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Isn't a reseat warning for memory?

Not that familiar with Onboard Video but you said it works with onboard video, but not the Voodoo PCI. have you tried a different slot? Have you checked the FSB hasn't been set to something out of spec? (120 FSB will cause probs with alot of vid cards.but not onboard video) Is there a jumper to disable onboard video. Just some things to check.

[Explorer]

1 long and 2 short beeps are usually Award or IBM BIOS codes. They indicate a failure to initialize the video sub-system for any reason, not just a card seating problem.

When you removed the battery and reset the BIOS it will have returned to it's default settings. Since the motherboard has onboard video it should now be enabled in the BIOS by default. Unless it is an older board that relies on a jumper on the board itself.

I suggest removing the Voodoo, plugging the monitor into the onboard video output, and rebooting. If that works OK then obviously onboard video and the monitor are fine. Now access Display Properties and change the adapter to Standard VGA. It may not be necessary, but I've found it's sometimes necessary to uninstall the Voodoo drivers at this point. Banshee cards used to be particularly picky about this.

Shut down and re-boot so Windows can get the appropriate drivers installed for Standard VGA. It's going to look terrible (640 X 480, 16 color).

Re-boot again, but this time access the BIOS, usually by holding down the Del key, and find the setting for onboard video and disable it. Save the BIOS settings, exit and shut down again. Install the Voodoo, move the monitor connector to the Voodoo, and re-boot.

Hopefully, at this point onboard video is disabled, the BIOS will thus find and initialize the Voodoo, and the computer will boot normally. Windows at this point should find the Voodoo, realize it's not the onboard video adapter set to Standard VGA, and attempt to install the Voodoo drivers.

Goodluck, 3D vid cards can be a pain.

[rlpos]

I had trouble with a Voodo3 2000try to install the latest drivers and it would lock up,not bootand several other varius faults.I went to www.omegacorner.com (http://www.omegacorner.com) and used his help file to completely remove all old drivers. Then reinstalled the voodoo with a an earlier version driver(I think it was 103.4) and it loaded with no problems. So I tried to install the later version tools. As it turned out the lataer version of tools was the culprit and causing all of the problems.

[This message has been edited by rlpos (edited 08-29-2001).]

[Nemo]

Now come on, if you put that video card in your father's machine and it worked fine, then something is wrong with you Motherboard or the slot you are putting it in, I would RMA the board and get a new one.

[Nemo]

Now come on, if you put that video card in your father's machine and it worked fine, then something is wrong with your Motherboard or the slot you are putting it in, I would RMA the board and get a new one.

[djleahy]

This is a tough one. I just recently formated my computer and lost about 3/4 of everything I had. So I reinstalled everything and started jacking with my drivers for my graphics card (Voodoo 3 2000 PCI). I tried driver after driver then at about the 4th boot the monitor would shut off. So I switched out my voodoo card and used my on board adapter to see what happend. Well I couldn't find anything so I put the voodoo back in and for some reason it gave a reseat warning at boot up (1 long beep and 2 short). So after retrying about 5 times I gave up and put the voodoo in my dad's Athlon 900. It worked just fine so I took his TNT2 AGP and the same thing happend. Can someone please help me? 1 long beep and 2 short but I know for a fact it isn't a reseating problem. Thx for your time.

[GrimBo]

Your machine won't even go into safe mode?