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Video card not detected until inside Windows?
« on: September 08, 2006, 11:26:04 pm »
http://forum.valhallalegends.com/index.php?topic=15655.0

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Yup. I recently bought a e-GeForce MX 4000 and plugged it in. It works great, but the BIOS doesn't detect it properly (it needs drivers or something) so the first thing I see when I turn my computer on is the Windows "please select who you are" screen. I hate making short posts with no information but.. here you go! Nothing much else to say. Anyone know how to fix this?

All I got was Topaz being a jackass, so any takers here?
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Re: Video card not detected until inside Windows?
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2006, 11:48:29 pm »
The BIOS doesn't use drivers.  Is it an AGP or PCI card, and did you change from what you had before (for example, if you had an AGP card and went to PCI)?  The BIOS might be trying to send the data to the bus that had your old card (I saw today that my BIOS has a setting for that).  Perhaps you need to disable integrated video in your BIOS?
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Re: Video card not detected until inside Windows?
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2006, 11:56:26 pm »
As far as drivers, I'm not sure what's needed. I already had nVidea chipset drivers installed (odd experiments at a friends house with his video card) so Windows has them at it's disposal, where the BIOS doesn't.

As for AGP, I don't have a slot for that. The card is PCI. IIRC (I don't feel like looking ATM, my case is flimsier than Arta's) I only have (had) one spare PCI slot and that's what the card is in right now, and all other cards have been in (I used an ass-old 8MB gfx card for dual-monitoring a while back as well). I'll check the BIOS stuff at the next reboot (I don't like rebooting).
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Re: Video card not detected until inside Windows?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2006, 01:24:05 am »
http://forum.valhallalegends.com/index.php?topic=15655.0

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Yup. I recently bought a e-GeForce MX 4000 and plugged it in. It works great, but the BIOS doesn't detect it properly (it needs drivers or something) so the first thing I see when I turn my computer on is the Windows "please select who you are" screen. I hate making short posts with no information but.. here you go! Nothing much else to say. Anyone know how to fix this?

All I got was Topaz being a jackass, so any takers here?

It might require a later version of the PCI specification.  I recall from reading about the ral driver on NetBSD, that some ral cards require PCI 2.2 specs and would not work on PCI 2.1 specs.

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ral++NetBSD-current

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CAVEATS
     Some PCI ral adapters seem to strictly require a system supporting PCI
     2.2 or greater and will likely not work in systems based on older revi-
     sions of the PCI specification.  Check the board's PCI version before
     purchasing the card.
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Re: Video card not detected until inside Windows?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2006, 02:17:53 pm »
So, how would I go about upgrading to 2.2? Firmware? New mobo?
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Re: Video card not detected until inside Windows?
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2006, 07:40:30 pm »
So, how would I go about upgrading to 2.2? Firmware? New mobo?

I know next to nothing about PCI specs.  I didn't even know PCI had different revisions ... I'm just noting something I saw about the ral driver.
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Re: Video card not detected until inside Windows?
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2006, 03:05:24 pm »
There is only one solution: Use Windows.

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Re: Video card not detected until inside Windows?
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2006, 03:07:31 pm »
There is only one solution: Use Windows.

This message was approved by Microsoft and will infact be their slogan for Vista's sucessor.

Well that's a retarded solution. :p
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