Problems adding an ATI Radeon 7000 to my eMachine 566i2

[Bernie]

I'm having some problems getting a new ATI Radeon 7000 64MB video card
working on my old eMachine eTower 566i2. When I put the new card in
the PC and try to boot it pops up the "eMachine" logo and just hangs
there. No boot, nothing.
There seem to be a lot of posts out there talking about similar
issues, and after reading them here's what I tried:
- Removing / disabling the existing onboard Intel 810 video card in
Device Manager before I install the card. This seems to have no
effect.
- Fiddling with a few BIOS settings. There isn't much to change, but
if I set the default video to PCI it doesn't boot with the ATI in it.
If I set it to AGP it boots using the onboard card (with or without
the ATI).
- Upgrading the BIOS. This almost ended in disaster.... I tried
upgrading to the HP version of the bios for the Cognac board and it
wouldn't boot of the HDD complaining about "read errors." Luckily I
managed to find the eMachine OEM BIOS and roll back. I did learn one
thing in the process though... When the ATI card is in the machine it
seems to make it through the memory check, find the mouse, etc and
then hang. With the HP BIOS you can see it walk through these steps.
Here are a few vital stats:
eMachine eTower 566i2
Intel Celeron 566mhz
256MB RAM
Intel 810 onboard video w/ 4MB
Cognac motherboard
The new video card is an ATI Radeon 7000 64MB PCI

Any thoughts, advice, comments, or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Bernie

[rob]

what kind of agp slot does that machine have? rev.

agp was a tricky little fucker back around the time your machine came out,
it's possible you have an agp slot that is severely limited.

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[fhaines]

If you can check the voltage rating on the agp slot of the computer and
check the rating of the card. Some are rated for different voltages than
others. Also make sure their is not a jumper on the motherboard to disable
the onboard sound. Also if you have any add in pci cards you may want to
remove them and see if their is any effect. Ive seen that hang up a computer
a few times. If it works just add a card at a time to see which one is
hanging it up.

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[Nobody_of_Consequence]

Upgrade! Fry's sold a mb and p4 2.4 gb for $159 a couple of weeks
ago. Else, Try moving you pci cards around to minimize irq sharing.
Look in you manual to find out which slots share irq.

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[Bernie]

Thanks for all the posts! A couple of things to clarify:
- The new card is a PCI card not an AGP card. This particular mb has
onboard AGP video but no AGP slots.
- I tried putting it in all three PCI slots on the board with the same
results. Also tried it with and without the other PCI device (an
ethernet card).
- I'm just about 100% positive that the ATI video card itself is OK. I
bought two of the same card (one for another PC) and tried the other
one which I know for a fact works fine. Same thing.

Kind of frustrating... It may be that this card just doesn't work on
my mb. I'm at the point where I think I'll follow the advice of Nobody
of Consequence and just buy a new mb (or maybe a new PC altogether).

Thanks again.

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[SL]

Have you modified anything in your bios? I know the proprietary
systems/motherboards are more limited in their bios options. But if
possible, change this setting. It is the option to use the pci or agp. On
several motherboards ive owned its usually called "init display first".
That option tells the motherboard to "look" at either the pci slot or agp
slot for a video card. You of course would select "pci". If you have
that option in your bios, I would bet big that it is set at "agp".

good luck,
SL