[PLUG] busted AGP slot? ... evidently not!

[Mike De La Mater]

How about the BIOS resources shuffle and PNP awareness setings?

It really sound like a hardware resource conflict to me at this point.

Mike



3/4/03 11:10:49 PM, Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike De La Mater <mikedela at ipns.com> writes:
>
>Mike> IIRC, 1) We verified that the card was good in another system 
>
>Yes.
>
>Mike> 2) We used a different AGP card in the slot, and it worked fine 
>
>Not exactly.  We removed the AGP card, which reenabled the onboard AGP
>graphics.  We did this on two motherboards (same part number) and got
>identical behavior.  The second motherboard was brand new.
>
>Mike> 3) We removed the drivers for the card and COMPLETELY reinstalled it
>
>It isn't even beeping during the power-on-self-tests.  There is no
>video _of_ the power-on-self-tests, screen black, not even a blinking
>cursor.  AFAICT, it hasn't even looked to see if there is a hard disk
>attached, much less caring about an OS, so it seems to me that
>"drivers" are irrelevant here.
>
>This is an Intel D845GBVL, a P4 motherboard.
>
>I did try upgrading the BIOS from P09 to P13.  No diff.
>
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Mike De La Mater
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