Omega
11-11-2001, 11:42 PM
Well, noted below is my entire system setup, FYI.
I put in my 2nd display adapter today (ATI 3d Rage II+ PCI) and booted up as normal. My BIOS told me that the card would be sharing an IRQ with my onboard Promise IDE controller, so I swapped the card into PCI 1 (from PCI 2, and no, I didn't hot-swap the card :P). I booted up normally again. I logged into Windows 2000 (SP2) as Administrator and after about 2 seconds the computer just hung. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete and it just cleared the screen, but didn't bring up the Windows Security dialog. I restarted and booted into safe mode. Windows detected new hardware (the video card) and loaded the drivers for it. I figured that probably solved the problem and I restarted normally.
This time when I logged in the computer hung after about 2 seconds again, but with a dialog asking for driver location for my monitor on the 2nd display adapter (Sony Trinitron Multiscan 100sx 15"). I booted into safe mode and extracted the drivers to the appropriate location and booted regularily again. Now the computer just hung after about 2 seconds with no dialog onscreen.
I decided to change my default display adapter to PCI in my BIOS and then I booted into Windows normally. Once Windows got past the boot/loading screen and into the normal GUI, the display switched back to my AGP adapter, and hung like before when I tried to log in, so I booted into safe mode.
Windows booted perfectly into safe mode on my PCI display adapter, and I couldn't find any problems. I ran CHKDISK on boot the next time (because I'd previously had some problems with a few corrupt files, etc...), but it found no problems, so I booted normally, with the same result as before.
I switched my default display adapter back to AGP. I then disabled the PCI display adapter in safe mode just so I could boot my computer. The computer booted fine in regular mode. I tried to enable the PCI display adapter from within Windows and Windows proceeded to hang after about 2 seconds, but it had begun to load a new window with something like "Hardware Troubleshooting" in the title (the rest of the window didn't load).
I'm now running with the PCI adapter disabled so I can use my computer at all. I've considered pulling out my AGP card and trying to boot into Windows regularily with just the PCI card, but I don't have the time tonight.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong, and/or how to fix it?
Thanks.
P.S. I checked ATI's web site for drivers and they just said to use the default Win2k drivers for my card.
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System Specs:
ASUS A7V
AMD 1 gHz Thunderbird, Socket A (not overclocked, with SK6-Pro HSF)
256 MB PC133 Cas2 SDRAM, 1 DIMM
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP (with IBM P70 17" @ 1280x960 32bit @ 75 hz)
ATI 3d Rage II+ PCI (with Sony MultiScan 100sx 15" 1280x1024 @ 60 hz maximum resolution)
Netgear FA311 10/100 PCI (disabled)
Telepath Internet 56k WinModem
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 X-Gamer
IBM Deskstar 75GXP, 30GB, ATA/100, Primary Master (boot disk)
Maxtor 5,400RPM, 8.4GB, ATA/66, Primary Master
Generic 50x CD-ROM, ATA/33, Primary Slave
Plextor 24/10/40 CD-R/RW, ATA/33, Secondary Master
300w PSU
Windows 2000 Professional SP2
I put in my 2nd display adapter today (ATI 3d Rage II+ PCI) and booted up as normal. My BIOS told me that the card would be sharing an IRQ with my onboard Promise IDE controller, so I swapped the card into PCI 1 (from PCI 2, and no, I didn't hot-swap the card :P). I booted up normally again. I logged into Windows 2000 (SP2) as Administrator and after about 2 seconds the computer just hung. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete and it just cleared the screen, but didn't bring up the Windows Security dialog. I restarted and booted into safe mode. Windows detected new hardware (the video card) and loaded the drivers for it. I figured that probably solved the problem and I restarted normally.
This time when I logged in the computer hung after about 2 seconds again, but with a dialog asking for driver location for my monitor on the 2nd display adapter (Sony Trinitron Multiscan 100sx 15"). I booted into safe mode and extracted the drivers to the appropriate location and booted regularily again. Now the computer just hung after about 2 seconds with no dialog onscreen.
I decided to change my default display adapter to PCI in my BIOS and then I booted into Windows normally. Once Windows got past the boot/loading screen and into the normal GUI, the display switched back to my AGP adapter, and hung like before when I tried to log in, so I booted into safe mode.
Windows booted perfectly into safe mode on my PCI display adapter, and I couldn't find any problems. I ran CHKDISK on boot the next time (because I'd previously had some problems with a few corrupt files, etc...), but it found no problems, so I booted normally, with the same result as before.
I switched my default display adapter back to AGP. I then disabled the PCI display adapter in safe mode just so I could boot my computer. The computer booted fine in regular mode. I tried to enable the PCI display adapter from within Windows and Windows proceeded to hang after about 2 seconds, but it had begun to load a new window with something like "Hardware Troubleshooting" in the title (the rest of the window didn't load).
I'm now running with the PCI adapter disabled so I can use my computer at all. I've considered pulling out my AGP card and trying to boot into Windows regularily with just the PCI card, but I don't have the time tonight.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong, and/or how to fix it?
Thanks.
P.S. I checked ATI's web site for drivers and they just said to use the default Win2k drivers for my card.
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System Specs:
ASUS A7V
AMD 1 gHz Thunderbird, Socket A (not overclocked, with SK6-Pro HSF)
256 MB PC133 Cas2 SDRAM, 1 DIMM
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP (with IBM P70 17" @ 1280x960 32bit @ 75 hz)
ATI 3d Rage II+ PCI (with Sony MultiScan 100sx 15" 1280x1024 @ 60 hz maximum resolution)
Netgear FA311 10/100 PCI (disabled)
Telepath Internet 56k WinModem
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 X-Gamer
IBM Deskstar 75GXP, 30GB, ATA/100, Primary Master (boot disk)
Maxtor 5,400RPM, 8.4GB, ATA/66, Primary Master
Generic 50x CD-ROM, ATA/33, Primary Slave
Plextor 24/10/40 CD-R/RW, ATA/33, Secondary Master
300w PSU
Windows 2000 Professional SP2