Picked up a 9700 Pro, annoying problem though.

[Fetti]

I have an Abit KR7A-133 1800+ (OC'd to 1.6ghz) 350watt PS system I was fixing up for a friend.

I picked up a 9700 Pro to put in there and it works great except for a small annoying problem. I had this same problem with an old GF2 GTS card I had in there but the GF4 card never gave me this problem.

When I first power up, it will give me a beeeeeeeeep, beep beep error code. I never get a signal from the card. Now, I can just hit the reset button and it boots right on up.

I know you are saying well, just reboot each time but I don't like having something wrong with systems I build for people, even if you can get around it. Just the way I am about things I do for people.

Any help or info would be much appreciated. After I reset and it boots, it works perfectly in everything. SWG, EQ, Aquamark, Prime95, 3DMark, etc. The drivers even installed perfectly the first time

I know the beep codes say it's a video issue (Award bios). I'm just not sure what to do about it.

If it's the MB, I guess I can see if it will be ok for her since not much I can do or, is there?

AGP voltage readout says 1.56v in bios.

 

[Spank]

I had that same problem myself with my 9700 pro, thought it was my psu that was to weak to power everything up. But the problem went away after i did a mb bios update.

 

[Fetti]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

That fixed it. I had a GF4 before in there and never had any problems and everything was working fine so I hadn't checked for a bios update, especially since it's an older MB.

Checked for an update and sure enough, a bios update for that EXACT problem.

Thanks again. Has worked perfectly now on many powerups.