No DVI Display During Post \ Weeeirdd POST Codes
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:19 pm
I removed the OEM VGA card - Gainward GF4 MX440 SE 128 MB AGP 4X
driver : " NVidia N17 vga BIOS v. 4.17.00.69.00 "
and installed a DVI-I out card - ATI All In Wonder 9000 Pro 64 MB AGP 4X
driver : " ATI RV250 BIOS 113-95901-100 "
My plug and play Flat Panel Monitor has both VGA and DVI-I inputs.
Now I must toggle the monitor controls to enable VGA mode during boot
up if it's not already in VGA, otherwise booting becomes interminably
long. If the Flat Panel Monitor is left set to DVI mode, no Boot screen at
all will display, only when Windows XP finally does load will the Monitor
display video in DVI.
When powered on, the OEM Nvidia card immediately displayed
" Nvidia VGA BIOS N17 v. 4.17.00.69.00 " preceeding Boot up. When this
DVI-I Radeon is powered on, there is no display of an ATI video BIOS
before the Boot screen.
I believe that either the motherboard BIOS does not support DVI display
during booting or else the ATI video card's firmware BIOS has some
compatibility conflict with the motherboard BIOS or the motherboard AGP
driver.
I have tried reinstalling WindowsXP, the ATI Catalyst drivers and nothing
else.
I have already contacted GIGABYTE about the Award BIOS and have
reflashed their latest edition F5 BIOSfor this GA-7DPXDW-P motherboard.
System interrogation utilities identify it as:
Award 6.00 PG, AMD2P-42302e31.
A checkpoint code P.O.S.T. diagnostic card displays POST Codes that are
not standard Award BIOS POST Codes not v. 4.51 and not v. 6.0 .
GIGABYTE is unable to provide any information for this.
If the sequence is begun in DVI mode, the display shows Code <E2> this
then becomes <A2> just before windows loads.
If the system has been inactive for several days, the POST Code is <AA>
when turned on in DVI. Then resumes as above.
When started in VGA the display shows code <A2> as the Boot screens
appear accompanied by a single Beep and Flash of the keyboard number
lock LED.
A warm Boot always begins displayng <A2> in VGA.
After the POST screens, prior to initializing Windows, the display
permanently becomes <00>
( i.e. checkpoint diagnostic completed )
Once Windows is initialized the BIOS LED flickers for ten seconds until the
Windows XP desktop displays on the Monitor. Before and after this activity
the BIOS led is always dark.
Do you have any thoughts on any of this? I'm at my wits end.
P. S.
I could edit the bios modules if I knew how and what,
with " Award Bios Editor "
see < http://awdbedit.sourceforge.net/ >
driver : " NVidia N17 vga BIOS v. 4.17.00.69.00 "
and installed a DVI-I out card - ATI All In Wonder 9000 Pro 64 MB AGP 4X
driver : " ATI RV250 BIOS 113-95901-100 "
My plug and play Flat Panel Monitor has both VGA and DVI-I inputs.
Now I must toggle the monitor controls to enable VGA mode during boot
up if it's not already in VGA, otherwise booting becomes interminably
long. If the Flat Panel Monitor is left set to DVI mode, no Boot screen at
all will display, only when Windows XP finally does load will the Monitor
display video in DVI.
When powered on, the OEM Nvidia card immediately displayed
" Nvidia VGA BIOS N17 v. 4.17.00.69.00 " preceeding Boot up. When this
DVI-I Radeon is powered on, there is no display of an ATI video BIOS
before the Boot screen.
I believe that either the motherboard BIOS does not support DVI display
during booting or else the ATI video card's firmware BIOS has some
compatibility conflict with the motherboard BIOS or the motherboard AGP
driver.
I have tried reinstalling WindowsXP, the ATI Catalyst drivers and nothing
else.
I have already contacted GIGABYTE about the Award BIOS and have
reflashed their latest edition F5 BIOSfor this GA-7DPXDW-P motherboard.
System interrogation utilities identify it as:
Award 6.00 PG, AMD2P-42302e31.
A checkpoint code P.O.S.T. diagnostic card displays POST Codes that are
not standard Award BIOS POST Codes not v. 4.51 and not v. 6.0 .
GIGABYTE is unable to provide any information for this.
If the sequence is begun in DVI mode, the display shows Code <E2> this
then becomes <A2> just before windows loads.
If the system has been inactive for several days, the POST Code is <AA>
when turned on in DVI. Then resumes as above.
When started in VGA the display shows code <A2> as the Boot screens
appear accompanied by a single Beep and Flash of the keyboard number
lock LED.
A warm Boot always begins displayng <A2> in VGA.
After the POST screens, prior to initializing Windows, the display
permanently becomes <00>
( i.e. checkpoint diagnostic completed )
Once Windows is initialized the BIOS LED flickers for ten seconds until the
Windows XP desktop displays on the Monitor. Before and after this activity
the BIOS led is always dark.
Do you have any thoughts on any of this? I'm at my wits end.
P. S.
I could edit the bios modules if I knew how and what,
with " Award Bios Editor "
see < http://awdbedit.sourceforge.net/ >