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Matrox RT.X100 and ATI Radeon 9800 conflict? No POST screen on boot.
My configuration:
ASUS A7N8X-E mobo AMD Athlon 2.08 Ghz 1.5 GB RAM 2 80 GB drives (SATA RAID 1) 2 120 GB IDE drives ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Windows XP Pro SP1 and latest patches I have been all around ATI, Matrox, and ASUS support looking for an answer to this problem and at this point, I'm completely lost. Whenever the Matrox card is in the machine, the machine will boot up but there will be no POST screen. It's completely black up until it gets to the Windows logon screen. Once logged on, the Matrox card appears to work fine within Adobe Premiere Pro. However, the ATI Radeon 9800 card loses the ability to use the TV Tuner feature. When the Matrox card is pulled out, the POST screen is restored and the ATI card works fine with all features including the TV Tuner. I've installed all the latest drivers for the ATI Radeon and the mobo is completely updated with the latest BIOS. I've been told several different things to what could be the problem. One tech said that the BIOS is just too small to accomodate all of the components that it's trying to load.. so the TV Tuner functionality just gets left out as well as the POST. He suggested proving this fact by removing 1 GB of memory as a troubleshooting step. This way the BIOS wouldn't have so much memory to load and would have more room for the peripherials I have installed. Sounded like a good idea, but this didn't work. I couldn't prove the tech was right. He also suggested reducing the AGP Apeture setting in the BIOS and disabling unused devices in the BIOS. None of which worked. Another tech suggested that the WDM drivers that are installed with the ATI Radeon card are conflicting with the capture card drivers used by the Matrox. I completely uninstalle all the capture card drivers on the ATI Radeon card and just installed the graphic driver. Same issue when I install the Matrox card, nothing but black screen up until I get to the Windows logon. Log on fine and the Matrox card works fine. This time I didn't install the TV Tuner portion of the card and I had the same issue. Well, I'm at wits end over this and I'm entertaining one of several options... get a new graphics card without TV tuner (no guarantee that'll solve the issue once the Matrox card is installed), or trade in my Matrox and try a DV Storm from Canopus (which I don't want to do, but will if that's the only option), or third.. just live with it having no POST, no graphics card features, but at least getting the Matrox to work fine in Premiere. Please if anyone has had similar difficulties I have to know what you did to resolve it. I'm about to pull my hair over this. All answers are very much appreciated. Thank you so much. -------------------- Brand= Model= Motherboard= ASUS 47N8X-E Processor= AMD Athlon XP 2800 Ram= 1.50 GB OS Type= Windows XP Pro |
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