2 Problems in need of help for

**Chewy** · 26 Mar 2006, 08:07 AM

http://www.asrock.com/support/download.asp?Model=K7S41GX

ASRock, Motherboard, Mainboard, Intel, AMD

you should only have installed the agp, sound video and maybe the lan driver

probably should have installed sp2 from safe mode

you did reload windows or at least run repair disk

**MystDrg75** · 26 Mar 2006, 11:21 AM

alright I just did another fresh install of windows. I downloaded the lan, sound, and agp driver from the asrock website. The lan and sound installed fine and everytime I try to install the agp driver I get graphics distoration. I get different color lines everywhere on the screen and color mix-up. I uninstall the agp driver and everything is fine again. Is the board just not liking my graphics card or could it be something else. I have a nvidia geforce4 4000 mx agp card. It was working fine with my other board. Hopefully this card is capable with this board cause I really dont have the money to get a new card right now. Plus does anybody now what the voltage of this card is? Any suggestions on this problem now?

**Chewy** · 26 Mar 2006, 12:30 PM

maybe a conflict with the onboard video, but that card should work fine in that motherboard, xp might have had drivers for the agp already. What does settings say in display properties? Is the mx card identified?

**futurex** · 26 Mar 2006, 12:38 PM

make sure you install nvidia drivers *before* the mobo's agp drivers. the agp drivers may not even be needed, check in nvidia drivers settings to see if it says agp. if it says pci mode, windows doesnt have them.

update your bios. disable onboard graphics through bios, and make sure agp is enabled as well

**MystDrg75** · 26 Mar 2006, 01:08 PM

I have the nvida drivers installed and it reconizes the card but under bus type in the nvidia options it says pci and not agp. I have agp set in bios as main graphics.

in device manager it lists the geforce card as the display adaptor.

**futurex** · 26 Mar 2006, 01:12 PM

try updating bios

**MystDrg75** · 28 Mar 2006, 02:43 PM

Sorry about the lack of updates but I just got around to flashing my bios today. The flash went good and the bios updated but it still won't let me install the AGP driver without a system malfunction. I tried the AGP driver off the website and the AGP driver from the chipset site it self and either one will install right. It was in this order now: Fresh install of windows, nvidia drivers, bios flash, and then agp driver. The AGp driver messes my system up and my system is still reporting my card as a pci bus instead of agp. Any other suggestions on what might be causing this. Really dont see an option for turning off on-board graphics in bios unless it is something I'm over looking.

**benbryant** · 28 Mar 2006, 04:35 PM

Can you double-check your mobo's manual to see if there are jumpers or settings to disable intergrated or on-board graphics card?

Edit: I found the FAQ of ASRock motherboard about on board VGA. Please check it out:

ASRock > FAQ

http://www.asrock.com/support/faq.asp?Model=VGA

ASRock, Motherboard, Mainboard, Intel, AMD

Regards

**MystDrg75** · 28 Mar 2006, 04:42 PM

No there isn't any jumpers to disable on board graphics and the manual is very vage in bios setting details. My manual is like 90 pages long but only the first 14 pages are in English the rest are the same thing in like 20 different languages so it really dont give you much info on what the different bios setting are for.

**Chewy** · 28 Mar 2006, 08:14 PM

can shared memory be set to 0?

weird problem as usually

You do not need to adjust any settings in the BIOS. ASRock motherboard will switch between add-on AGP and Onboard VGA automatically when you install or uninstall it.

in device manager/system devices, what does this say?

**MystDrg75** · 29 Mar 2006, 12:43 AM

The shared memory can only be set to auto,32,64,128 are the options. And I dont have anything that looks like that in my system options the closest thing I have is something called

PCI standard host CPU bridge
PCI standard PCi to PCI bridge

And when I installed the AGP there was one called: SIS Accellerated Grpahics Port but I had to delete that cause of the monitor mess up.

Its just confusing me cause I have never encountered this before. Usually its just install card, then drivers and everything is good.

**Chewy** · 29 Mar 2006, 01:33 AM

try pulling the card and running off the onboard and then go back into device manager, your mobo driver cd may have been too old, what version of windows xp are you installing?

you may have to get the onboard running right then add the card back??????????????????????????????

**MystDrg75** · 29 Mar 2006, 02:11 AM

Im installing Xp home edition version 2002

I forgot to add that earlier when I posted ...... I pulled the card last night and ran off on board gaphics. Got that all installed and running correctly. Installed the AGP graphics driver and it installed with no problems. It had the Accelerated Graphics Port in the system devices and was like cool it finally installed correctly. Powered off, reinstalled the card and turn the system back on. The found new hardware thing poped up saying it found my card and when I went to install the drivers for the card it got halfway through the driver install for the card and I got the problems again. I got no signal to the monitor. Just went to power saving mode. So I went back into windows in safe mode uninstalled the AGP driver and everything posted normally again, just still listing my AGP as PCI.

I'm not using the drivers on the Mobo disk, I downloaded all the drivers I needed off the website.

**Chewy** · 29 Mar 2006, 02:23 AM

well that card shouldn't need drivers with windows xp

2 Problems in need of help for

2 Problems in need of help for

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