After testing PCI vid card in a PC, old AGP card no longer works...

[Endarkened]

Well, I was tested a GeForce FX 5200 PCI card just to make sure it gave a signal (I entered the BIOS right away and then shut it down) -- and now the old AGP card (a Radeon 7200 VIVO) no longer gives a signal; I just get the long and two short beeps of a video error code.

I really don't understand what could have gone wrong, since I removed the old AGP card, added the PCI card, booted into BIOS, shut down, removed the PCI card, and then put the Radeon back in. At first I thought maybe the BIOS was defaulting to PCI, so I cleared it using the jumper, but I still couldn't get a signal to the AGP. After that I tried booting with the PCI again and changing the setting to "AGP first", but still, no luck.

So I'm typing this right now with the PCI card plugged in -- but I'd really like to be able to use the AGP card again, as I need it for another computer. The motherboard is a Shuttle AK35GT2 with the VIA KT333 chipset and has nothing overclocked.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated,

~EnDarkEnd

 

[clarkmo]

I take it the 7200 has a few miles on it. Maybe the connectors need a cleaning. Use a clean pencil eraser and some a;cohol on the card connectors and maybe some qtip alky action on the agp slot. Make sure it's clean and dry when you're done though. Wiggle the card in both directions after it's seated -|- .I doubt it went bad but the connections may need a tweak.

 

[Endarkened]

Well, I did as you suggested and cleaned it with and eraser and alcahol, and now it works! It didn't seem very dirty at all, despite its age, but it must have been just enough to keep it from making a good connection.

Thanks!

~EnDarkEnd

 

[Luthien]

Okay, I have had the problem your discribing and dont know if you truly have a bad videa card or not and it sounds like you know about changing your AGP to be the default video card in your bios or it will continue to use PCI... Fix, I have used is to pull the bios battery and let it sit for an hour... Another is goto bios with pci card and set default to AGP as mentioned already and I know you did it (I think already), but leave both cards reboot after saving new bios settings... If you left both cards in then try same proceedure but shutdown pull the pci card and install the agp and see what happens. Eventually I got it working every single time. Good luck.