x850xtpe and asrock dual vsta problems

[ianh82]

hi

have got this board and it wont boot past the winxp screen, well a picture won't show.

asrock said i need to update the bios.

how do i do it when i cant see a picture, do i put my agp and pci-e cards in and use my tnt2 agp as primary and flash through windows the card bios?

if i back the original bios up, how will i know if the new one is newer and will make my card compatible with the board?

[tkpenalty]

They meant update your motherboard bios. It would be nice to have some idea of what your system is.

[ianh82]

no, i have done the mobo bios. he said the graphics card ones.

my system:

E6300
asrock dual vsta mobo
2 x 512mb geil value ram
x850xtpe pci-e card
40 gig ide drive
160 gig sata drive
use on board sound
LG 19" widescreen monitor

[ianh82]

can anyone help!!!

the guide at top is for overclokcing, i just need to flash my bios to make it compatible. i downloaded everything from the bios download pages but not sure what to do now. can the winflash do it?

i have dual vsta bios number 2.40.

[Pavlos3]

i dont think that u have to put ur agp card on . Just flash the card. If the flash goes wrong then u ll have to put ur agp card to reflash ur pci-e .

But i also dont think that ur boot problem, has anything to do with the card's bios.

But i dont know so much things, so i may be wrong.

google x850... bios .

[shupp872]

If I understand you correctly, you have video while booting, up until you get to the Windows Login Screen? So you can see your bios POST and the Windows loading screen?

If that is true, then you have to download the right bios for your x850xtPE card, boot to bootable floppy disk, and run the flash program from DOS, you cannot do this from within windows (because you have no video and windows, and it is just safer via DOS)

Once you make a backup of the bios, and flash the new bios, upon next boot, you should be able to get video in windows.

I have only flashed one video card bios, but it was pretty painless. Just read the directions with your flashing program (for DOS).

WHen you are finished, please confirm that it worked.

BTW, I have the same motherboad as you, and I have the AGP version of the card that you have. It has always worked for me, but I don't know if it is becuase I flashed the bios before I got the motherboard. However, my buddy just bought the ASROCK board, and as soon as he installs drivers for his 9700 Pro video card, he loses video.

Now, if you have no video at all with your x850, even during POST, then your problem is different. You need to use another video card to go into your motherboard bios and change some settings around. For my buddy, he only had to change the order of Video cards (from PCI to AGP) and change the AGP speed from auto to 4x (even though his card is 8x).

Try that.

I don't understand why some people have issues with the board and some don't. Sounds like a board quality issue.

[ianh82]

cheers for that.

i can see the bios screen, not the video bios creen when it first starts like my agp tnt2 card shows, and it loads until the windows xp professional screen shows then when that goes i get nothing.

i'll try the boot disc and see if that helps/works and flash the bios with the files i found on this forum.

i'll let you know how it goes.

[ianh82]

right, downloaded the atiflash tool and x850xtpe bios file from these forums and it hasn't made a difference. flashed fine though.

shall i flash with a sapphire file or something? i just used the ATI file for pci-e as my card is unbranded?

[shupp872]

Boot into safe mode, and disable Write-combining in the display settings (not sure where at)
then reboot. see if that helps

[ianh82]

thats another problem i have, it don't boot into safe mode.

fails on loading the drivers. i have vista and may try that.

[stevorob]

It isn't a problem with the card.

Seems like there is a problem with windows and the video drivers you have installed... Can you get into windows with the tnt2?