FX5200 by MSI

[redbull2689]

I have a major problem. I have an MSI 651 MEGA Cube. (Can find it at MSI's Website)

I have an Intel 2.0GhZ P4
TV@nywhere 8606-020
MSI MEGA MB & Case
40GB WD
256 PC2100 MEM
CD-RW/DVD Combo drive by MSI

I have had to switch video cards more the once.

I first had an MX400 (geforce 2)...but it got to hot for the pc.

Then I bought an ATI Radeon 9200 SE, but all ati cards use IRQ 16, which is the same irq that the tv@nywhere tv tuner uses.

Now i bought an MSI FX5200 Geforce 4, but it doesent bring up any video at all. I am so disturbed with this pc, but I need to get it up and running. Any suggestions...everything has been re-seated and works fine.

Help!

[johnnyis42]

well, the first thing to do is get the machine up and running with any display device that works. if the machine has onboard that would be the sefest bet.

next, well, you have at least one version of nvidia driver son there and one version of ATI drivers. in windows xp it is usually pretty good about detecting what goes with what, but sometimes when you have multiple display devices windows is stuborn about who it gives primary display to. my first suggestion in getting things back to where you want them is to remove the TV anywhere card, then uninstall all the video drivers, fromt he TV card to the nvidia and ATI drivers. if you can use a stand alone utility remover for those drivers (detonator destroyer, catalyst remover, etc)

then go agead and installt he video card you want to use first, and if you used any onboard display adapter, disable it in bios as well. if you had to plug in one of the old cards, go ahead and remove them and plug int he FX5200 you want to use, making sure you have removed all the drivers before that.

at this point the machine (without the TV card installed) should give you a display, hopefully the really ugly 640x480 8 bit color display. go ahead and install the nvidia drivers at this point, reboot and make sure everything is working.

if this is successful go ahead and try installing the TV card.

the IRQ 16 sharing should not be a problem, unless you actually notice some major performance issues. IRQ sharing on display devices happens because windows likes to think similar devices go on similar IRQ's, but setting the "IRQ for VGA" setting in bios can sometimes aleviate that from happening, reserving a single IRQ for the primary display adapter.

but, if you get everything working and the IRQ 16 sharing is still happening, and you don't really notice any performance problems, leave it alone. just keep your eye out for chipset driver updates, and maybe updates for the TV card drivers, as well as bios updates. with ACPI either of those things can change the way windows allocates IRQ's to the devices, since windows overrides what the motherboard wants unless you take some extra steps when you install windows to not use ACPI with your system.

a note on that... you actually do want ACPI because if you do not use it, you won't be able to use the Adanced PIC feature that allows IRQ's higher than 14.

good luck, tell us what happens.