ELSA GLADIAC ULTRA won't start!!???

[FiTiRPiLiT]

hello, i just bought a retail elsa gladiac ultra board from a reseller. It was a sealed box, not a white box. i tried to follow the install instruction in the manual, but i cannot get a signal from the board at startup or in windows after installing the card. i had to use a second pci graphics board to even boot into windows where i installed the elsa driver 6.43 off the cd

i am using windows 2000 on a VIA KT133 chipset board
i have the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers installed
i am getting an error code 10 "cannot start" when i check the board in the device manager
it has an IRQ 11 dedicated to it
AGP 4X is off
fast writes is off
system is not overclocked

What is wrong!!????

 

[bighurtx82]

First off are u getting any beeps from the motherboard during the initial boot? Second what motherboard are u using?

 

[cmaMath13]

When the monitor is ON and you computer is turned completely off to do get a NO SIGNAL message on you monitor? THEN when you turn the computer on, does the monitor still give you the NO SIGNAL message?

 

[FiTiRPiLiT]

i get a no monitor signal all the time....i do hear those beeps when i boot as well....

 

[FiTiRPiLiT]

i am using the abit kt7 non-raid

 

[crab]

try resetting the BIOS

 

[cmaMath13]

I would recommend that you make sure the card is PROPERLY seated in the AGP slot. I had an Abit BX6 mobo with a TNT2 Ultra video card. I had to press the card in all the way and pull the back end of it out a little, because it was not make good contact with AGP slot.

Can you try a different AGP card?

 

[FiTiRPiLiT]

yes i think that may be an issue...i don't 100% sure it seats properly...but it is as far down as the metal plate on the card will let it go.

Okay guys, I tried this last night when i got home form work, but still no good. I read somewhere that nVidia boards are not compatible with all motherboards (of course I find that out now!)

1) booted without pci card in
2) set inital video to agp
3) set agp drive control to DA and then EA
4) enabled fastwrites
5) made sure agp was assigned an irq
6) set video bios shadow to disabled
7) did the reset ten times in a row thingy
8) installed amd agp patch registry key

i did all this and still "nothin' nathan nada, aight?"

i called elsa, but i think i just missed them and they closed down for the night....will try them again today, but any suggestions until then?

 

[FiTiRPiLiT]

just called elsa...they weren't too helpful...told me to reset cmos using jumper (i did it by taking out battery), disable ACPI in the bios and reassign the irq's so it's not sharing, take the metal bracket off the board and seat it properly, and get the new bios for my mobo....i told him about other people having problems with the geforce2 gts and the kt7 and it was new to him. but the two cards are very similar so.....i'm getting the new bios now

 

[cmaMath13]

LISTEN:

Before you physical mess with your mobo, etc.

DON'T PUT THE AGP CARD IN ALL THE WAY. That was what I was trying to tell you. The only way I could get my TNT2 Ultra to run on the Abit BX6 was by pushing it in all the way and THEN PULLING THE BACK END OF THE CARD BACK OUT A LITTLE BIT. When I had the card pushed in all the way, I was having the same problem as you.

Try another AGP card. See if your local computer store will lend you one for testing purposes (mine did).

Let me know what happens.

 

[FiTiRPiLiT]

pull the back up????? so it's not seated level??? and it worked??? wow. okay, i'll give it a try...when you say back do you mean the part by the plate, or the part closer to the HD's?

 

[FiTiRPiLiT]

oh, and i'm replacing my current agp card (3D Labs Oxygen GVX1) so i know it's not the slot

 

[cmaMath13]

Yeah, when I had the card seated all the way down I had the same problems as you! So I kept messing with it. The fix was:
1. Put card in all the way.
2. Try pulling different parts of card up and HOPEFULLY you will get a good connection with AGP slot.

I hope it works for you! I know it was very frustating for me to have a brand new top of the line video card that did not seem to work right.

 

[Compellor]

Check out this page:

ABIT KT7 FAQ

There may be something there that may help you.

 

[cmaMath13]

Compellor,

The page in no longe active:



<< I regret that I am no longer actively maintaining this FAQ as I no longer own this motherboard, and most problems and solutions have now been identified and documented in this FAQ. >>



Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[FiTiRPiLiT]

i've flashed my bios to the most recent &quot;WW&quot; for my mobo. i've removed the back plate for the card to make sure it is seating properly...the card is rocking back and forth in the slot, not a tight fit. i've tried setting the I/O voltage to 3.6v....nothing worked. still one singal normal beep upon boot up, then when it gets to the part where windows starts, the light from the monitor goes from orange to green!!! whoo-hoo!!...oh, then it starts blinking orange and green repeatedly and just stops there. should i bother getting a new card? or just say f-you to nVidia and buy something else? i've tried to raise the card's back end up as someone had suggested and it didn't work. hmm...i think it might be dead or not compatible with my power supply, but would windows detect it if it was dead???:disgust:

 

[ZigZag]

try to replace the cable of the monitor... I really mean it

ot try it with another monitor

I had something like that...

Yaniv

 

[cmaMath13]

Zig Zag,

He said the PCI video card worked fine.

FiTiRPiLiT,
You are replacing AGP so you know its not the slot, then take card back. If a different card gives you trouble then you know it is an incompatibilty.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

I've bad experience with ELSA Gladiac MX,
system always freezes,
no way I'll buy ELSA card again.

 

[FiTiRPiLiT]

okay, guys, thanks for all the help...i'm sending the card back on monday for a new ultra. we'll see if it's the card or not....if it's the card...i'm gonna say f**k it and buy a firegl2.....3 times more cost, but you know it's gonna work, be rock solid and fast as hell in 3d apps...my girlfirend is gonna kill me!!!!

 

[cmaMath13]

With everything you tried, its gotta be the card! I hope the new one works perfectly for you. You PAID for it! Have a good weekend.