Specs:
ABit KT7 Raid
Creative Cd RW and a 50x cd rom
matrox g400 dh
ibm ata 100 45 gb hd

I have had this system running with sound network, dv and a modem. The DV card was having problems with irq sharing so i turned off acpi and pnp os and reinstalled all win2k divers. That did not work so great and i ended up getting a scrambled screen in win2k when it booted in normal mode with the included matrox drivers installed. (the same ones that had been working perfectly before) so i booted in safe mode and uninstalled the drivers and the card worked in normal mode again. So then i decided to switch the system back to acpi. Ok back to acpi same problem when matrox drivers installed = blue scrambled screen after the second win2k boot screen (the first color one with the blue progress meter.) So that sucks and what’s more? now If i power up the computer it will work great i can boot up and the card works (still not with win2k drivers) I can go into bios setup or boot something however as soon as the computer restarts there is no post no beeps and no display output until you shut it of unplug it and drain all the power by holding the button and then plugging it back in and turning it on. I am not worried about the windows problem because I am going to reinstall anyways and that will probably fix itself. But I am not sure what the deal is with it not working after restarting that is weird. Also if I put my ati card in the agp it works great. i think it is an expert 98 rage 2x or something. But it can restart and show the display and post just fine. Also I have set the agp aptature to 256 i have tinkered with the agp 4x and that does not help I have tried loading the failsafe and the optimized defaults to no avail. I am thinking that this must be a bios setting as it worked before. I have tried the latest abit bios update and that did not work so I am back to the old bios. I have tinkered with the bios setting to get it to work but nothing i have done has changed the current situation. Also the matrox card is currently working in my dell and it can reboot and post and show the display! All that I can think is WTF? Any suggestions?

Well now the computer will not post after reboot with the ati card so i am guessing that it is a mother board issue not a problem with the graphics card.

[This message has been edited by Four and Twenty (edited 30 October 2000).]

well it seems that the multiplier got set to 5 when it should have been 9 all better now.