Mega 180 AGP Graphics card problem

I have just tried to fit my Leadtek WinFast A350XT TDH into my new Mega 180 and cannot get the thing to work !
The card only just fits and I had to fit a power splitter to run the Fan on the thing but it does go in.
The problem is that the machine boots correctly to XP and runs as standard VGA.
But once I install the latest Nvidia drivers the machine hangs 1/2 way through install and re-boots.
From then on Windows is dead, cant restore old settings, cant safe boot. Nothing.
Re installed windows and just ran it as a standard VGA for a while to see stablility, I start getting Memory exceptions at random points during operation.
The memory and the graphics card etc in the machine is the stuff from my old box and was stable in that system. (Memory is PNY 3200 Standard memory)
Has anyone had a similar problem or figured a way to sort it ??

I have now tested it with my MSI GForce FX5600!
Still having lockups, something is not right here !
I have an 8x agp port that doesnt appear to work with any of my graphics cards!!!
Whats going on !
Any ideas ?
My next thing to try is new memory but I'll have to buy that.
Any suggestions on what is the best , but affordable, memory to buy for this system ? Tried and tested stuff, not just the general "best".

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Mega 180 and Graphics Cards

Hi i just ordered an mega 180 im just wondering on the best graphics card i can put into this and also if i do will i lose my pci slot to put in the tv tunning card?

Quote from: Nulll on 06-June-05, 21:21:30
Well i have.
I have the 9800 pro and the msi has NOT ENOUGH POWER. Sometimes the screen stays black but everything else loads great (you can hear windows tune). Turning the msi off and on untill you see the bootscreen works. Sometimes i have to boot 5 time in order to get a picture. I think the power core must be replaced for a more powerfull one. Don't know which one is best for this (suggestions welcome)
Sec; The card blocks the airflow, boosting the temp in the msi.
I really regret buying this msi 180, it just can't take the heat and high end video cards :(
It's wrong, sorry but the famous black screen at the windows load has nothing to see with the power. Check the forum and let's have a look at the anakin(?) thread. I got a 6800@GT, no power problem, and I used to have the black screen when I didn't have any additional graphic card. For the temp you'll have some modding but eveything's OK (my temp are max with dm3 or hl2 Proc: 60° Sys: 42° GC°: 65°).
Keep trying, mega is cool.

[SOLVED] Mega 180 + AGP additional card = beeps and no boot

Hy, I've just got a mega 180 that works just fine ... with no agp card ...
If I plug an additional card into it, like the basic 6600, the pc won't boot and beeps will be heared.
These are : beeep (1-2 sec), ... (2 or 3 sec), beep, ..., and so on ...
Again, if there is no additional card, it works just fine.
I've tried it with an old xentor 2 card --> same result.
Is there any bios setup ?
Anything to do ?
Plz help ! :-)
Config :
bios v3.5
sempron 2500+
2*256 corsair high speed
80Go HD
Leadtek 6600TD 128Mo

Quote from: VieuxEd on 22-April-05, 18:11:09
3. Can you get into the bios, and change the settings to not use the onboard (don't remember the exact words, but it's somewhere in there, see the manual if you cant find it).
I've been looking at it but could not find it ! --> can you please tell me the right setup ?
Is it anyway possible to make the mega pc 180 work with the onboard Graphic card and an additional one at the same time ?
Because right now, with the beeps, I don't have access to the bios.
So I will have to setup first the bios with no additional agp card (setup not to use onboard) and then turn it off and then plug the agp card
Coul it be possible for the agp plug to be broken ?
It's not impossible that the AGP slot is broken, but I would try other things first.
As you say, you can change the BIOS to use AGP card, shut it down, plug in the AGP card, and power on.
Chapter 3.8 in the manual (avaible @ http://www.msi.com.tw). Please work with me...
You can also try to fiddle around a bit with the other AGP settings and see what happens....

AGP graphic card

I install FCE HD 3.0 on my Mac Book Pro and when I attempt to open the program I receive a message telling me I do not have an AGP Graphics Card. Should this card already be installed?

FCE 3.0 is NOT suitable for the new Intel Macs like your MBP.
You can UPGRADE to FCE 3.5 for $99.
FCE 3.5 is specially designed for your computer and has more improved features.
If you want to use your old FCE 3.0 you will find that it works slower than it should and there may be other problems.
If you use the "esc" key you will need to do it everytime you open FCE.
For a permanent solution you can hack FCE 3.0 like this:-
1. Right click on the FCE icon (in the Applications folder) and select "Show Package Contents".
2. Open the "Contents" folder and double click the "info .plist". It should open automatically in TextEdit - if it doesn't, choose TextEdit manually.
3. Around 15 or so lines down you will see AGP. Delete it and put in PCI.
4. Close the window and when asked if you want to save the changes, say yes.
Ian.

Final Cut Express 2.0 Configuration Error--Missing AGP graphics card

Can't seem to get FCE2.0 working properly. Says I'm missing the AGP graphics card, but when I run the hardware diagnostics there is no problem with it. I thought FCE2.0 would work with the Intel processor.
Any ideas how to fix this?

FCE2 predates the MacBook Pros (Intel based systems) by quite a long time. Other users have had similar difficulties. If I recall correctly, you can just ignore the error message. But search the Forum, you will find out what other people have done.
I would suggest, however, that you upgrade to v 3.5 for your MacBook Pro. It's the UB version and runs much better on the Intel systems.

Dual 450, new AGP graphics card?

Hello,
I have a AGP graphics card I pulled from an original Dual 1.8 (8 ram slots). I am going to venture a guess that this will NOT work in a Dual G4, 450Mhz? And since I am near sure that is the case, what should I be looking for? Primary application is Photoshop, and if possible, the abiltiy for Dual monitors sometime in the future. I don't know the code name for this unit, it has a blue front cover and 2 FW 400 ports (which suprised me!). We are hoping to make it a dual boot machine with one hard drive dedicated to 9.2 and another to 10.3... I imagine that matters in terms of cards that work with 9.2?
Thanks,
Mike

You could go with the extreamly pricey new ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition (I forgot about this card in my last post btw). You can find it at OWC, http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/100435058/ , but its not cheap, $259, but it does have 256MB VRAM. One other problem with this card, you may need to get a new powersupply which can deliver more power in order to use it, not cheap to do.
The PCI based ATI Radeon 9200, which is only $135.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/100436011/

Bios not recognising AGP graphics card?

The first problem I experienced whilst building my new PC was that I could not enter the bios screen after installing the motherboard. I had a AGP card which I changed to another one without success. Lucky I had an old PCI graphics card and with this was able to see the bios on the display. This problem was repeated when I cleared the cmos jumper and also after I installed the latest bios (ver 1.30) which seams to indicate that the bios does not recognise my AGP graphics card. Can anyone confirm that the plug and play bios should see my nvidia Quadro FX3000 AGP card?
My PC has MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, A64-FX55, Nvidia Quadro FX3000, 1GB OCZ DDR ram PC3200 Platinum Dual Channel kit Rev2, Matrox RTX-100, 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB SATA

Bigblair,
I get a continuous beep as you suggested. I checked the D-bracket diagnostic LED's and found this to mean early chipsept initialisation. I suspected the wrong ram configuration and from another post found that I had wrongly inserted the dual channel ram in slots 1 and 3 instaed of 1 and 2. By correcting this the plug and play bios can now automatically see my AGP card.
Tiresmoke,
I had tried turning the fast writes off but that didn't work. I needed to install a PCI graphics card (default if plug and play does not work) in order to set my bios to AGP.

Hardware missing -AGP Graphics card. How can I get my FCE 4 working on the new computer? Cheers

Hi I have just upgraded my computer to Mac OSX 10.6.7 now I cant open my FCE 4. Message reads, Hardware missing -AGP Graphics card. How can I get my FCE 4 working on the new computer? Cheers

Thanks, just so I know we are talking about the same items please let me know - When you say "run Prokit" do you mean downloaded? Which I did. I dont have Prokit 4.0.1 if you are referring to that, do I need this first? Please explain what application name I am looking for if other than Prokit which is sitting in my "download folder" do I need to manually put it into the apps folder? Sorry if the questions are layman but this area is not a very strong point for me. Thanks for your help so far.

Graphic card problem maybe? Since when I have changed the hard drive to my macbook pro and I installed all the new softwares, my mac is very slow and the screen gives crazy pictures,could maybe be the graphic card, does anybody have experienced this?

Graphic card problem maybe? Since when I have changed the hard drive to my macbook pro and I installed all the new softwares, my mac is very slow and the screen gives crazy pictures,could maybe be the graphic card, does anybody have experienced this?

after a restart it works for a time, but always slow. I went to the Applestore this afternoon and the made a check and said it would be the logicboard and they would have to change it for CHF 600 and it would be ready in 10 - 15 days

Final Cut HD/AGP Graphics Card

i just got a new G5 with a dual-core 2.0...loaded FCP 4 HD...went to launch it and it says it can't open the program because i need a AGP Graphics Card.
what gives? the box says i have that card installed...is that the same as the Nividia card?
i'm confused.
j.

Lemme just help. I have the Stock Answers for a reason. Or am I just making people lazy for not encouraging the search?
#29: Need AGP Graphics card
Shane's Stock Answer #29
You either need to either:
1) use the following hack -
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/finalcut_pro_on_oldmacs.html
or
2) Upgrade to FCP 5
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302667
Shane

AGP Graphics cards and Final Cut Pro...?

Hello everyone,
I just received a new computer today. Dual G5...It comes with the PCI Graphics Card. My old computer was a G5 as well but had a AGP Graphics Card. I reinstalled FCP4 today and tried to use it, but it says that the AGP Graphics card is missing. Do I need a AGP Graphics Card to run FCP4? And if so, why wouldn't the new computers come with one? I mean it seems silly that you can go and get a brand new G5 and FCP4 and not have it work. Anyone?

#29: Need AGP Graphics card
Shane's Stock Answer #29
You either need to either:
1) use the following hack -
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/finalcut_pro_on_oldmacs.html
or
2) Upgrade to FCP 5
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302667
Shane
"There's no need to fear, UNDERDOG is here!"

Get error msg. "Configuration error" AGP Graphics Card

I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 17". I migrated my software from my old computer, but when I tried to open Final Cut Express HD, I got an error message saying Configuration Error "AGP Graphics Card." When I went to the support site, it indicated that I needed to download an update. I did that, but the install indicated that I was already updated and current. What can I do?

You are in the Final Cut Pro forum and find more focused help over in the FCExpress forum.
That said, usually these messages arise when you are installing an older, non-intel version of the software on an intel machine.
You can not update it, you need to purchase the upgrade to the current Universal Binary (aka intel ready) version of the software for it to run properly.
Good luck,
x

Need a good AGP graphics card

I need to find a good AGP graphisc card to use with Motion 3 but AGP Graphics cards seem to be hard to find. I could use some suggestions.

eBay? I have an Apple nVidia 6800 Ultra that I keep meaning to put on eBay - email me if you want to know when I do...
Other than that, you can check OWC - http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/video/hardware/ - they've got the x800 in stock right now...
Patrick
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FCE can't launch AGP Graphics Card?

I've been using FCE 4.x for years. The other day, I installed Soundtrack and all of a sudden my Final cut won't open or launch. I'm getting a "Configuration Error"
"This software requires certain hardware or software which is missing."
"AGP graphics card."
I have done nothing in regards to my OS or hardware. All I have done is install Soundtrack the other day.
Please help...

as a final note, this is what I had to do. I used the FCE remover application from a link in a previous post, then re-installed FCE version 4.0 from DVD disk. Then, I was getting errors about my existing FCE projects being newer than the application version. I realized that I had probably downloaded an update. So, I did Software update to version 4.01 (I think). It all works great now!
Thanks for your time and advice. I should have known that by installing Soundtrack which no longer comes with FCE 4, that it's an older application but I didn't think it would have anything to do with my version of FCE. Glad you pointed me right...

Is anyone still having discrete graphics card problems after replacement

Is anyone still having discrete graphics card problems after replacement?
Macbook Pro eligible for replacement through Apple program.
Submitted my computer 2 days before program came into effect.
They replaced card or logic board with same original model: AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MB
Issued me a refund check for my repair.
Seems to have some noticeable issues, fan running more than usual again, and temporary graphic lines,
but disappear too fast before a screen dump...
Is anyone who has participated in the replacement program received a different graphic card for
Model Macbook Pro 17" (late 2011)
Thank you for the reply.

Unfortunately I have yet to call AppleCare because I am on a project for 3 weeks and cannot be without my laptop during that period....
Until that time I am trying to figure out what I can do to protect the Palm Rest/Mouse Pad area of my Macbook once they either fix it or give me a new one. Has anyone had any experience with either of these products that can provide some input as to whether they are good or bad?
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