I recently installed an ASUS V7100 Pro Ge Force2 MX400 32mb RAM PCI card onto my HP Pavilion 8316 (Pentium 2 350mHz 256 mbRAM;Windows98).There is no AGP slot and the drivers for the on-board ATI Rage AGP card have been disabled.
The computer on booting fails to progress beyond the HP blue solutions screen and load Windows 98 unless the ctrl/alt/del keys are pressed.
Once this is done FS2002 works fine.
Is there any way the system can be started with 'one hit' so-to-speak?
ASUS and HP support have not been able to help me with this problem.

Flyfisher @ 3nm NE NZGS

• RE: Ge Force 2 MX 400/HP Pavilion 8316,AlanParkinson, 20:00z, 04-02-02
• RE:Ge Force 2 MX 400/HP Pavilion 8316,Ben Chiu, 20:18z, 04-02-02
• RE: Ge Force 2 MX 400/HP Pavilion 8316,Flyfisher, 09:57z, 04-04-02
  • RE: Ge Force 2 MX 400/HP Pavilion 8...,Ben Chiu, 20:45z, 04-04-02
    • RE: Ge Force 2 MX 400/HP Pavilion 8...,Flyfisher, 10:01z, 04-05-02
      • RE: Ge Force 2 MX 400/HP Pavilion 8...,Ben Chiu, 22:47z, 04-05-02
        • RE: Ge Force 2 MX 400/HP Pavilion 8...,Flyfisher, 03:22z, 04-06-02

Hi Flyfisher,

>The computer on booting fails to progress beyond the HP
>blue solutions screen and load Windows 98 unless the
>ctrl/alt/del keys are pressed.

When you say HP blue screen, is that HP's BIOS screen?

I've seen something very similar on two occasions. Each one was power supply related.

On the first one, a CDROM drive wasn't getting a clean power-up reset signal from the motherboard. This meant that the CD simply didn't bother to power up properly, the Power On Self Test locked up rather than reporting an error. If the reset button or Ctrl-Alt-Del were pressed after switch on, the power supply was stabilised and a good reset signal was sent to the drive - all was fine from then on. A different psu improved things but didn't completely cure the problem, a new CD drive fixed it.

On the second occasion, a replacement psu solved the problem immediately.

It could be that your new graphics card consumes a lot more current than the built-in one, and is pushing the psu to its limits. Power supplies are not expensive, it could be worth trying one with a higher rating - 300 Watts or so.

Alan

Greetings Flyfisher:

> I recently installed an ASUS V7100 Pro Ge Force2 MX400 32mb RAM PCI
> card onto my HP Pavilion 8316 (Pentium 2 350mHz 256
> mbRAM;Windows98).There is no AGP slot and the drivers for the on-board
> ATI Rage AGP card have been disabled.

Have you disabled the onboard AGP video card through your bios and/or jumper as well? Removing the drivers may not be enough.

Ben

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Alan and Ben,
Thanks for the replies.
Alan
My son says the blue HP screen is the BIOS screen.He knows a good deal more about computers than I do but he doesn't know what the cause of the problem is.
I shall ask the service technician if he thinks the power supply could be at fault( he wasn't able to solve the problem).
Ben
How would I check whether the BIOS ATI driver has been disabled? I don't know much about computers!
Flyfisher

Greetings Flyfisher:

> How would I check whether the BIOS ATI driver has been disabled?

You'll need to look at the manual for your computer or you'll have to call HP Tech Support. If your onboard AGP card can be disabled, the procedure should be outlined in the manual. Typically, the process requires you to change a Bios setting (usually called something like "Disable Onboard AGP Graphics" or something like that, and/or change a jumper on the motherboard itself.

If you're not comfortable doing an of this, you might want to ask someone that has experience working on computers to do it for you. If you need to open up your computer to work on it, there are many seemingly harmless things you can do to it that will damage it (like giving it a static shock).

Hope this helps!

Ben

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Ben,
Thank you very much. I'll speak to the technician who fitted the card and who couldn't work out why the computer needed to double-boot after a few cold starts.
The advice that you and Alan have given might well put him on the right track.
I don't want to touch it as the extended warranty will be void if the insurance company gets the idea I took the back off.
We all know what insurance companies are like!
Flyfisher

Greetings Flyfisher:

> I don't want to touch it as the extended warranty will be void if the
> insurance company gets the idea I took the back off.
> We all know what insurance companies are like!

Rgr that!

Please let us know how you make out, especially if you solve the problem so we have a record of how to handle it if the same kind of problem appears again for someone else.

Thanks and good luck!

Ben

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Ben,
Certainly.
Flyfisher