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1905FP causes a reboot
Just got a new 1905FP to replace an old crt for my desktop and to work with my D800. It seems to work fine with the laptop, but it causes my desktop to go into a cycle of rebooting. Turn the computer on and all is well till it gets to the windows startup page then it shuts down and does a reboot. If I start up with the monitor off and wait untill it has time to reach the windows logon page, then turn on the monitor, it works fine.
The system is an AMD Duron 1000Mhz pocesser in a K7T Turbo motherboard, with a GeForce FX 5200 AGP vid card, windows XP home SP1.
Any Ideas would be helpful!!
Thanx
Jeffono,
Thanks for the response and suggestions. You were right about my bios (VIA KT133A chipset). The only thing I had not done that you suggested was to update my mobo drivers. I did that last night with no change in my problem. I had already gone to the dell download area and made sure I had the lastest driver for the 1905FP and PNY and nvidia to get the lastest driver for my vid card. I guess the only thing left to do is update the bios, but that's a little scarey to me because I've never tried it. Maybe I'll do that tonight! wish me luck!!hehe
Any other suggestion?? I'm listening
- Sorry for the delay. I was camping at treeline in the snow. Afterwards, when driving back home my 4x4 slid down an icy hill and crashed in the backwoods. Totalled-out the radiator and transmission fluid. Then the snow storm hit... This is my first day back at work in nearly a week.Did you do your BIOS flash yet?I've done several dozen BIOS flashes. None of them went bad. However, they still scare me as much today as they did in the beginning. They CAN fry your mobo.They say to have your computer hooked to an Uninteruptible Power Supply (like APC battery BackUPS), but most of my flashes have not allowed that luxury.There are several ways to update a BIOS. Dell tends to offer two or three choices. One is the BIOS data only. You would have to add this to a bootable floppy. This would require some knowledge with DOS and other things.Another is a utility that will build a bootable floppy with the BIOS update file. This is the way I prefer, but make certain you run a ScanDisk on it with the "thorough" option to make certain that your floppy disk is 100%. Even if the scan goes through okay, if the scan seems to hang up on a portion, but eventually makes it through, it means the floppy was okay, but marginal. I throw those disks away, too, and start over until I get a comfortable floppy.The third BIOS option is the new way of running a utility from Windows that stores the data in RAM. This is usually called the "hard drive utility". With a warm-boot, the RAM doesn't get wiped. Upon reboot, the BIOS update stored in RAM gets written to the BIOS flash memory. I've done this twice. After years of old-fashioned floppy updates, this was certainly new-fangled. But whatever works, right?I would steer clear of the first option above, and make sure you read the type of BIOS download you're getting. Be patient, read everything that gets put on-screen, and back out or "escape" if you don't feel real comfortable. Then you can maybe check on some thaings and try again later.Good luck.Jeff
JeffO-no
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Posted October 29th, 2004 13:00
These are just ideas (you may have to hit the F8 key to get to the Safe Mode option page when booting to try these):
Update VIA chipset drivers to latest version (did I get your chipset right?).
Update to latest DirectX (8.1 for pre-XP, 9c for XP).
Update your video drivers to ones less than 6 months old.
Make sure you have the monitor driver installed. This can be tricky. Windows likes to install the generic one, even if you give it the specific monitor driver. You have to force it with the "Have disk..." button.