prophet ii mx problems - monitor blank

[tazual]

Hi I wonder if you could help or advise please.

Today I bought a 3D Prophet II-MX graphics card however, it does not seem to work. After carefully following all the instructions when I switch on my pc I get nothing on the monitor. Power is fine. I get the green LED light up on the monitor as it always does when the power is turned on. However, the screen remains blank and does not even show start up checks...The following info will help, I hope!!

When booting up the pc gives one long bleep followed by 2 short bleeps. I have a SE440BX motherboard - According to my manual such beeps report "Search for option ROMS. One long two short beeps on checksum failure"

I assumed from the requirements on the box that my pc is adequate for the graphics card....The PC has the following......

Pentium 2 - 400mhz
INTEL 82440BX agp SET (PREVIOUS GRAPHICS CARD INSTALLED WAS RAGE PRO 2XAGP)
128mb SD RAM
512KB Cache RAM
Monitor reports 60MHZ on old graphics card
I have more than 1GB hard drive memory

additional hardware:
pctv card plugged into pci slot
USB cam
USB scanner

have unplugged USB devices

Operating system WINDOWS ME


Thanks for your help Mark

[Randy_tx]

Once again......Win Me rears it's ugly head http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif I suspect you have a conflict with the TV card installed in your computer or some other device which wants the same IRQ this video card needs to use. Try pulling out the pctv card and see if you can post up........If you can, then you will have to do one of two things I know of: 1. Go into Bios and find out if there is a way to "disable" using an IRQ for the VGA card...if there is, you are probably in luck...if not 2. See if you can CHANGE the IRQ setting for the pctv card. If you CANT post up with the pctv card out, post back with what happened and someone will help.

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"As hard as a rock & dumb as a brick"...Windows CEMeNT

[tazual]

Thanks for the help but did not work.....

This seems harder for me to sort because I can not actually see the screen as it appears dead...although I know it gets a signal from the pc as the green light flashes.

I disabled the pinnacle pctv card and also removed the card from the motherboard but no problems.

Things are fine when i put the rage pro back in each time.

I have no other pc to test the card I purchased

Even with the tv card removed i still got the same 1 long beep followed by 2 shorter.the pc appeared to carry on booting up based on the noises i heard.

Any other ideas would be appreciated.

I have emailed the makers of the card and am waiting for a reply.

Thanks, Mark

[Dave40]

I believe that the Prophet card needs a Ver. 2.0 compliant AGP slot- is your BX board capable ( I think it is, but not sure)

[Bad Omen]

Check BIOS for "assign IRQ for VGA" setting, and be sure it's enabled.
Even if the AGP slot on your BX mobo is v1.0, the video card should work.
The speaker signal you're hearing (one long, two shorts) means no video, even if the monitor led is turning green. Check the video card to be well tightened in AGP slot, and fixed with screw. I experienced similar problems with my Leadtek Winfast MX DH video adapter, that was because the metallic support was too long, and when fixed it with a screw, the card was puled out of the slot.
Otherwise, you may experience some problems in Windows...the card is 4x, and BX can support maximum 2x AGP data transfer. The card can (theoreticaly) select 2x mode, but in many cases it crashes in 3D. In this case, all you have to do: disable the AGP support in DirectX diagnostic (you ca access this by typing "dxdiag" in the "run" dialog box from start menu.
I hope it will help, or else...you'll have to change it http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif
Good luck

[Dogdaysdude]

Oh, great! I just bought one of these at an auction for use in a Dell XPS R400 (same mobo). Hope to heck it works. I'm running Win 98, though and no pctv stuff. One thing the manufacturer (Hercules) suggests is to upgrade your mobo to the latest bios. I did that last night and that went ok.
I am waiting for the card to arrive. The mobo will support 2X AGP and it is AGP 2.0 compliant. If your system is a Dell, I would upgrade the bios for the particular model.