Ok here is my system; Amd XP1600 chip, K7S5A board,Windows 98 SE, 256 DDR 2100 memory and SoundBlaster Live sound card.
I purchased a Geforce 3 Ti 200 PNY video card to replace my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card. I had a lot of problems with system lock up and exeption errors while playing games or just surfing the net. I tried many possible fixes that were suggested but had no luck. As a last resort, the PNY site stated that any Voodoo drivers left on the hard drive could cause problems and that the harddrive should be reformatted. So I re-installed my old Voodoo card until I decided what to do.
Rather than re-format, I bought a larger 40gb hard drive. I installed it and placed my Geforce card in and then booted. I recieved a series of beeps and nothing showed on the monitor. I tried re-booting with the same results. I took out the Geforce card and put my Voodoo card back in and I was able to format and partition my new drive with no problem. I then installed Windows 98 without any problems. I did not load any drivers for the Voodoo card. I again shut down, removed the Voodoo card and placed the Geforce card in and restarted. Again I recieved a series of beeps and no display on the monitor. AGP is enabled in the BIOS also.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

ok a few questions.

1. do you have any PCI cards in the slot next to the AGP port, if so move it out as it can take control over the AGP.

2. try the Geforce card in another puter.

3. are you removing the PCI card from systems?

No PCI card next in closest slot. Geforce card was working prior to the hard drive upgrade. Not sure what you mean by removing PCI card from system. Thanks for responce though.

Sounds to me like the PNY video card is not getting fully seated. You wouldn't believe the amount of force required to fully seat some cards.

Does that motherboard have a litle clip thingy that is supposed to clip over the back of the AGP card on the bottom? If so, you must push the video card in, until you hear and feel the "Click" that signifies the video card is fully seated.

Try a couple more times. Use steady and even downward pressure.

remove voodoo PCI card from Control Panel/Systems/Device manager, the uninstalling of that card, shut down take out Voodoo card and put in Geforce AGP.
have you removed your old hard drive in the above way?

other will come.

Originally posted by MAKO
As a last resort, the PNY site stated that any Voodoo drivers left on the hard drive could cause problems and that the harddrive should be reformatted.

They actually stated that? If so, that is pretty lame in my opinion. There are other options rather than reformatting whenever there is a conflict with any installed cards.
Can you provide a link where this was said?

I'm gonna agree with BigBlue and say that the card is not seated properly. That is usually the number one cause.

And Jiggy is on the right track there. But it should be done in safe mode instead. It will show all drivers including ghost drivers.
Remove all display drivers in safe mode.

Here is a link of known problems too:
http://www.pny.com/home/NS_templates/images/Top_IE_02.gif (http://www.pny.com/home/techsupport/faqs/read2.cfm?categoryid=7)

I will try to reseat the card as soon as I get home from work. Go to www.pny.com go to video card support faq's and look at the next to the last statement concerning replacement of Voodoo cards with Geforce cards. Currently I have no voodoo drivers loaded, also how would my old hard drive still be involved? Thanks again.

Sorry, the statement about Voodoo cards is under question #1 under Video FAQ's.

A thousand thankyou's!!!! It was indeed that the card was not seated fully. Of course not everything is that easy for me, now after I install my soundblaster live sound card and do the restart I am getting a protection error. If I remove the card and restart it is gone. I have tried changing PCI slots but no luck. Whats next???? Thanks in advance.:confused:

Are you getting the protection error in windows? The blue screen of death?

Have you disabled the all the onboard sound functions? Including the onboard joystick port? I have the same motherboard and can't remember if there is a joystick port. Hehe. I think there is.


And the suggestion about starting in safe mode and removing drivers was a suggestion for future reference. ;)

Right again! It was the on board joystick port! Thanks.

There are other options rather than reformatting whenever there is a conflict with any installed cards.

Normally this is so, however with the voodoo series of cards, because the so vorasciously spread their files throughout your system & registry, a simply unistall of drivers is not going to work properly.

In the case of a switch from Voodoo to another brand of video card it is highly recommended to do a fresh install of windows, otherwise you will spend hours attempting to manually remove registry entries and various scattered files left over from 3DFX.

Thanks for the imput iisbob. It is appreciated