Radion VE in a K7VTA3

[kdmem20]

I'm having problems installing a Radeon VE Dual Display card in my K7VTA3. I get no signal, no beeps nothing, any ideas?

[Garak]

did you have a working card in the board before you installed the VE card? if so you may have shorted something if not. then.... theres a whole list of options.

[kdmem20]

Yes, it was working with a Gforce 2, I'm using it right know. I've also tried a couple of other cards and they work in the motherboard, just not this Radeon. But it works in other systems. So it seems to be a problem between the card and this motherboard.

[Garak]

Is it anything to do with the AGP socket speed being x2 or x4?

[kdmem20]

No, I've tried it with both x2 and x4, no response.

[Garak]

But this card works in other Mobo's? this is a weird one, i will have a look around and see what i can dig up.

[Lycia]

I know that you are unable to get any signal but maybe this might help:

"...stability can be obtained by setting the AGP Driving Strength in the BIOS to 68. If AGPx4 is disabled and the VIA 4in1 AGP driver is installed in Turbo mode then the card will happily run at AGPx2. There appears to be less success using AGPx4 - although this is widely regarded as offering little practical benefit over AGPx2 anyway."

or,

"...by disabling P2C/C2P Concurrency in the Advanced Chipset Features menu of the BIOS instabilities were solved."

[kdmem20]

NO good, thanks for the help but it didn't help. The system still doesn't want to respond. I've even taken the motherboard out and install the card to make sure that it's setted good, no luck.

[Garak]

Theres a few BIOS updates for this board already, although im not sure which revision of the board you have, best to check up on that before you download and apply any BIOS upgrades...

HERE IS THE LINK

Good Luck.

[kdmem20]

I installed the BIOS updates with again no luck. The fans turn on, but no post beeps. Any other ideas?

[Chris_MacMahon]

i have a ECS, K7VZA, latest bios running an ati radion VE...no problems, different mobo.
have you tried starting up machine in fail safe bios? some times after many boots and reboots i have to do this to get in, the i reboot and change all the settings to what i like (in the bios)

[kdmem20]

No I haven't, but it won't even start booting for me to get into the safe mode. I've tried changing some of the BIOS with another card in then trying to replace the video cards, but that hasn't work either.