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Thread: Amptron M810XLM....new video card problems

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    Onboard Graphics and new G4Ti4400 card.....

    i have an Amptron motherboard w/ crappy onboard SiS graphics. i just got a geforce4Ti 4400 128ddr video card in hopes to improve my gaming experience. so far i have had a horrible time even getting the monitor to operate properly while running through the new card. all i am getting is the blue message "display cable connected?" and snow/fussy background running diagonally. my motherboard manual says i can disable and/or add an AGP card but so far i am out of luck. is compatability playing a big issue with my current setup? any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you.

    FWIW, 1600xp+, 1024 sdram, shared memory onboard SiS card(i usually run it @ 64meg).

    any response and/or help is appreciated even if its negative, lol.

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    Amptron M810XLM....new video card problems

    i did a search but didnt come up with the exact answer i was looking for.....

    i have an Amptron motherboard w/ crappy onboard SiS graphics. i just got a geforce4Ti 4400 128ddr video card in hopes to improve my gaming experience. so far i have had a horrible time even getting the monitor to operate properly while running through the new card. all i am getting is the blue message "display cable connected?" and snow/fussy background running diagonally. my motherboard manual says i can disable and/or add an AGP card but so far i am out of luck. the manual is very vague and the bios doesnt seem to be cooperating. there is a d-load for my MB on Amptron's site but there isnt a description for it and i dont know what it is. im not one to start dloading bios commands when i dont know what they do. is compatability playing a big issue with my current setup? any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you.

    FWIW, 1600xp+, 1024 sdram, shared memory onboard SiS 630/730(i usually run it @ 64meg).

    any response and/or help is appreciated even if its negative, lol.

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    Welcome to Sysopt!

    This FAQ is not specifically for the M810XLM, but it is close, as the M810LMR uses the same chipset and same onboard video.

    http://radel.inet.net.nz/m810lmr.html#vga

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    thats a very, very informative page and i see that someone got the geforce4ti 4400 to work. if they did, i guess i can too.

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    Is there a jumper or BIOS switch for disabling onboard graphics?
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    i posted it here and in the video card section only to get as many responses as possible, not to cause a problem.

    the jumpers, i dont know for sure if that is a possibility. the bios setting only gives me 2 choices, PIC or OnBoardAGP. i have tried both with no luck.

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    Time for a new motherboard, eh?
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    The onboard video autodisables when you plug an agp card in.
    There is a list of approved/tested vid cards at Amptrons site...
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    See whether you got the card seated all the way. Seems you didn't. The other issue here is that the SiS 730S chipset is a bit picky about which graphics cards it runs and which it doesn't. See that huge FAQ for user reports.

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    i have tried everything under the moon and my brain is beginning to hurt.
    i think i just may purchase a new motherboard w/out onboard graphics.

    i have already started looking for new boards and came across this one
    MSI K7N2-L NVIDIA nFORCE2 CHIPSET ULTRA ATA133 ATX FORM FACTOR 1xAGP(8X)/5xPCI/1xACR/3xDDR W/ LAN, USB 2.0 & AUDIO (CPU TYPE:AMD DURON, ATHLON)

    is this a decent board? its priced for like 100 bucks on mwave.com. i will probably just pick this one up if you guys think its a good move.

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    Are you kidding? That's an excellent motherboard!
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    ok well, now that i know its a good move, i have a few questions concerning install. i am currently running 98se and i would like to possibly upgrade to XP but i dont know the exact process on doing this. can/will all my data from 98 operate under XP? i dont know anything about O/S beyond 98 so i am clueless as to what steps to take and not lose my current hard drive data.

    any help would be much appreciated. thanks.

    EDIT: i guess i should be a little more clear. i suppose i can just burn the data that i want to save onto a CD-R and then do a clean install of XP and then load up my old data from CD-R? it sounds simple i just wasnt sure if the data that was used in 98 would be comatible w/ XP.
    Last edited by BigSmith; 01-08-2003 at 12:43 AM.

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    Data is data.

    You will have to uninstall all system utilities like antivirus, defrag, registry tools, partitioning applications and such before upgading. Aftger the upgrade, reinstall your AV utility.
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    well i just ordered that motherboard. ok so data is data, i got that in check. check, check, and check on everything else too. anything else i should be looking forward too? by the way, where is a good place to pick up a copy of XP? arent there several different versions of it? which would you recc. for my application?(part time high end gamer, full time browser).

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