AGP Problem , card not found?

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Hi all, Im hoping some one might be able to help me here with a problem?

Story is I have just finished building a basic system for my boy , nothing flash

Asrock P4i65GV mobo (

Prescott P4 2.8 unclocked

1G X 2 DDR400 GEIL RAM

PSU Thermaltake TR2-470

Case Thermaltake Armore Jr

On board Graphics - Intel® Extreme Graphics 2

OS genuine XP / service pack 3

My problem is the on board Graphics are no good for my boys games , so I installed a sapphire HD 2400 radeon Pro agp card , but the device manager does not list it as found? the fan on the card spins up ok but that`s all other than that there`s nothing?, Ive checked in the bios and that list`s nothing either?

Ive installed the drivers both for the AGP on board and for the card but my device manger is not listing the card so obviously there is nothing for the drivers to work if you understand me

Not sure where I'm going wrong, it`s a AGP socket card/ DDR2 which worked fine in his old system yet this new build wont even detect it? other than that the new build is working A1

Im not a fully clued up PC builder ( more of a trainee) as this is only my second build , so any help would be appreciated

Thanks all
Andy

 

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But if i do that and its not picked up and i lose my display altogether Ill be up the swany

 

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Ok Ill give it ago now ( he says with a slight shake in his voice)

 

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I can`t find a agp setting in the BIOS all i can see is:

on board Audio- able/disable

on board Lan- able/disable

on board MC -able /disable

And order of priority internal graphics agp/pci/internal and no matter what way round I set that it makes no odds

am I doing something wrong? looking in the wrong place? I'm looking under advanced setting in BIOS

 

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Nothing to worry about m8.

Find setting in bios that gives you selection where you can choose graphics source selection, set it to agp, should that fail it will activate one that works.

Silly advice, but make sure you plugged your monitor into graphics card not into your onboard graphics, it happened to me and many others

If I plug the monitor into the graphics card the monitor wont power up.

 

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Have a look at the manual, located here:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/manual.asp?Model=P4i65GV

From that, I can see that the option to turn off integrated graphics looks like it's on the Chipset Configuration page (see page 24 of the manual).

One point that worries me though is that the graphics slot is a non-standard AsRock slot; which claims to accept only a limited number of cards. You might be ok but bear this in mind.

I still don`t see the option to turn off though? you have of priority IE internal graphics agp/pci/internal , that makes no odds at all, under that i have Internal Graphics Mode Select which is set to auto, there is no off setting, you can just selected from larger size of share memory ?

I did see that the AGP "AsRock slot" claims to accept only a limited number of cards?

 

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Asrock call it an AGI slot not an AGP slot? no sure what that means, here is a list of cards that they say can be used, could any one recommend a half decent low budget one from this list? and maybe where I could purchase it from?

 

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ew...sticky..Ok, if you need a new card, it has to be 3.3v compatable, and any AGP card past the ATi 9000 series or NVidia FX5000 series will certainly not be.. IIRC, AGI is essentially an AGP port wired into a PCI interface, so is limited to the specifications of said interface. This will severely limit what you can put into the machine for your son.
I'd imagine the only place you'd find a compatable one will be off eBay. Have a search for the cards listed on the ASRock site and see what you can find

(wouldnt pay more than peanuts for it though, this is some seriously old tech)

But it states on the Asrock mobo next to the AGP slot not to use a 3.3volt as it will damage the board?

 

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Might be asking a silly question,but did you remove the motherboard graphics driver before installing the new card as the manual says it'll default to onboard graphics if it finds the driver (not sure how it'd manage to but that's what the manual reckons)
Cheers

Yup tried that but it still does not find the card, only finds the onboard vga again.

 

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Sorry, did a quick search, seems I was thinking of the wrong thing my bad.. You'll at least want an AGP 4x compatable card then..

I thought the ATI Radeon HD2400 pro was compatible with the AGP slot seems i was wrong as my system will not acknowledge its existence

Thinking about the Asus FX5770 ? The Asrock manual says its compatible, but Im unsure what its like ?

 

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Which one to go for?

Asus Fx5770 Vs Nvida Geforce 6600GT anniversay addition

Your recommendation would be appreciate
Thanks fella`s
Andy