i had something similar to this once. it turned out to be a bad connection
between the diamond viper v770 and the motherboard. make sure it's
extremely, and i mean VERY securely plugged into the AGP slot. mine had
trouble because the metal plate on the back of the v770 was bent a bit too
early, meaning the rear end of the card was not sitting well in the slot.
pressing it in harder before screwing it on served to be my solution.


>From: Joseph Buckhalter <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [PCBUILD] Motherboard problems
>Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:29:22 -0500
>
>Hello everyone. I am new to the list. I started a project yesterday to
>build
>a new desktop using some spare parts from my old machine and an AMD Athlon
>XP 2000+(model 8) and a Biostar M7VIW motherboard. I'm have tried using 2
>different hard drives, a quantum bigfoot 3gb and a maxtor 8gb. I'm using
>256mb PC100 SDRAM and a Diamond Viper V770 32mb graphics adapter. Well, I
>know the old harware works, because I have it up and running in an older
>machine now. I suspect that the motherboard was DOA from newegg.com It
>won't
>boot from any drive. The troubleshooting section in the manual says I
>should
>make sure the CMOS settings are correct, but it won't let me into setup. I
>press DEL to go to setup and I get a cursor in the upper left corner and it
>just sits there. If I plug in a floppy drive, it will show me the hardware
>monitor info and then say "verifying DMI pool data........." and then it
>will just sit there. It does detect all the IDE devices though. Do I have
>something set wrong or is the motherboard defective(or both)? I am happy to
>provide any other info that would be helpful. I tried clearing CMOS and
>that
>didn't help either. Please help, thank you.
>
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