Was not sure of whether to post this here or under motherboards.
If the system has not been running for a few hours and I turn it on, the motherboard does not detect the video card. I get one long beep followed by two short beeps (Video Card not found or video memory bad) and the diagnostic LEDs on the motherboard indicate VGA Error.
The system will actually boot to a login screen that I cannot see and I can then login remotely and halt the system or log in and halt by careful typing. On the second or third attempt the video card will be found and everything works fine. 2D and 3D using the NVidia driver current with Ubuntu 7.10. (100.14.19) The motherboard does take a noticeable few seconds more than my old socket 939 board to get to POST when I can see what is happening.
From the EVGA website I did find a suggestion to reseat the card (done with a nice positive click) and rearrange the RAM (done as well from A1/B1 to A2/B2)
I am also running the latest BIOS for my motherboard, from 2008-01-28, A78XA125.BST
Some other parts of the system:
Biostar TA770 A2+ Motherboard
AMD 4800+ 64x2 Brisbane
A-DATA 4GB(2x2GB) DDR2 800
Antec 500W Earthwatts with both Molex for video and the new 8pin CPU connector plugged into motherboard in addition to the 24pin connector
Seagate 250GB SATA
I did change Grub to now halt at the menu so that I can safely turn off PC after a no-video boot without having to login.
If the system has not been running for a few hours and I turn it on, the motherboard does not detect the video card. I get one long beep followed by two short beeps (Video Card not found or video memory bad) and the diagnostic LEDs on the motherboard indicate VGA Error.
The system will actually boot to a login screen that I cannot see and I can then login remotely and halt the system or log in and halt by careful typing. On the second or third attempt the video card will be found and everything works fine. 2D and 3D using the NVidia driver current with Ubuntu 7.10. (100.14.19) The motherboard does take a noticeable few seconds more than my old socket 939 board to get to POST when I can see what is happening.
From the EVGA website I did find a suggestion to reseat the card (done with a nice positive click) and rearrange the RAM (done as well from A1/B1 to A2/B2)
I am also running the latest BIOS for my motherboard, from 2008-01-28, A78XA125.BST
Some other parts of the system:
Biostar TA770 A2+ Motherboard
AMD 4800+ 64x2 Brisbane
A-DATA 4GB(2x2GB) DDR2 800
Antec 500W Earthwatts with both Molex for video and the new 8pin CPU connector plugged into motherboard in addition to the 24pin connector
Seagate 250GB SATA
I did change Grub to now halt at the menu so that I can safely turn off PC after a no-video boot without having to login.
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