That REALLY must be frustrating. I never liked the old circuit cuz the
chicanes were usually problematic for me. I'm not a big fan of chicanes in
the first place so that track was like a poster child for bad racing. The
new track trades rinky dink chicanes for a double infield. I would have
like to have seen the 2nd straight after the pit/straight extended and
another hairpin added. That would have doubled the decent passing areas.
Oh well.
As far as your motherboard, could it be power? Most of the newer cards
need a line from the power brick to fully function. But it should still
boot. I wonder if you just have too many devices draining too much power.
Try a barebones boot where all you have is a harddrive connected. Pull the
power plugs from the cdrom/dvd's, slave hard drives, floppies, anything
that can drain power. Disconnect all USB devices, just keyboard, mouse and
harddrive and see it that gets it running.
IF so you'll need a beefier power supply.
dave henrie
What motherboard, there have been problems with some (abit i think)
motherboards. This *may* be solved by updating your bios (with another card
in!)
All the best,
Ash
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> > Well, I just installed the third 9500 Pro, and it still fails to boot
> > my machine. They say the card is OK. I'm beginning to believe them.
> > Must be incompatible with my motherboard, or something. I'm about
> > ready to buy an off-the-shelf *** computer. Any ideas? Case of coke
> > still available. OT: I was in Germany this week and visited
> > Hockenheim. Interesting, but the shortened course takes a lot out of
> > it. Some BMW drivers were doing 2:52 laps. Cheers,
> > Sam
Stewart
>> Well, I just installed the third 9500 Pro, and it still fails to boot
>> my machine. They say the card is OK. I'm beginning to believe them.
>> Must be incompatible with my motherboard, or something. I'm about
>> ready to buy an off-the-shelf *** computer. Any ideas? Case of coke
>> still available. OT: I was in Germany this week and visited
>> Hockenheim. Interesting, but the shortened course takes a lot out of
>> it. Some BMW drivers were doing 2:52 laps. Cheers,
>> Sam
...........
> As far as your motherboard, could it be power? Most of the newer cards
>need a line from the power brick to fully function. But it should still
>boot. I wonder if you just have too many devices draining too much power.
>Try a barebones boot where all you have is a harddrive connected. Pull the
>power plugs from the cdrom/dvd's, slave hard drives, floppies, anything
>that can drain power. Disconnect all USB devices, just keyboard, mouse and
>harddrive and see it that gets it running.
> IF so you'll need a beefier power supply.
>dave henrie
Product name Genuine Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor based
Board model Genuine Intel(R) D845GBV system board
OS version Windows* 2000 version 5.0 Service Pack 2 build
2195
OS memory 252,720 KB RAM
Processor Genuine Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor
Processor speed 2.27 GHz
Bus speed 533 MHz
L1 cache Data Cache 8KB, Execution Trace Cache 12K
Micro-ops
L2 cache Advanced Transfer Cache 512 KB
Form factor Unknown
Stepping 4
Physical memory 256 MB RAM
Memory speed 266 MHz
Memory type SDRAM, Synchronous
Form factor DIMM
BIOS date 04/12/2002
BIOS size 512 KB
BIOS version P01 (RG84510A.86A.0006.P01.0204121445)
Cheers, and MORE cheers if I ever get this fixed!
Sam
Is your current motherboard one that has built in video as an option?
Like the Nforce2 Nvidia boards? Dig through the bios to make sure that
option is turned off.
Then the desperation stuff, put in a working video card, and choose the
plain vga/agp video setting. Get that working and remove the card from the
device manager and then physically remove it. Have you tried booting in
safe mode?
dave henrie
Whoopieeee! Finally, after a six month battle, the card will boot and
operate! Thanx for all the suggestions. We looked at the latest bios
update, and it said something about a fix for failure to boot on
another card. We tried it anyway, and it booted!!! So it appears it
was a bios problem. GPL is much smoother now, and GTR runs fine.
My *** pressure has returned to par. Cheers, Happysam
