Here's an update to my problem posted yesterday:

This board has an onboard C-Media AC97 Sound Card and S3 ProSavage DDR
Display Adapter, so I removed the Sound Blaster Live! Value PCI Sound Card
and ATI Radeon 7200 32MB DDR AGP Video Card. Now the computer boots
normally, but the onboard sound and video is not quite the quality of the
add-in cards.

When I installed the cards, I disabled the Sound in BIOS, but there was no
setting to disable video, so I suspect that was the problem. I would like to
use the ATI Card since the onboard S3 adapter uses shared DDR system memory.
The sound is not that big of a deal.

What are the proper procedures to disabling the onboard video to use an AGP
card.

Thanks!

Larry A. Kaduce
 


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Subject: [PCBUILD] New Biostar Motherboard


I have just upgraded my Motherboard and CPU to a Biostar M7VIG Pro with
Athlong 2000+ CPU.

I ran it all day yesterday without problems and very stable, although I
noticed it took several minutes to boot up. I left the machine on all night
and this morning it was unresponsive, with the display a dark gray and a
blinking curser in the upper left corner.

I booted into BIOS and disabled PnP, all caching and I/O ports not used and
reset the configuration data, but I still cannot get the machine to get past
the loading XP screen.

I have no idea what BIOS version I have, since all I see during bootup is
the Biostar logo and haven't found a way to shut that off in the BIOS setup
menus.

Please help!

Larry A. Kaduce

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