   2 Computer Questions
  Hey,1) When I boot up my computer, occasionally it will freeze as soon as it boots up. The mouse and keyboard are unresponsive, and I end up having to hit the reset button. Does anybody know why it's doing this? Ever had it happen before?2) I was looking at my graphics card settings, and for some reason, AGP read, write and everything else disabled, while PCI read, write is enabled. when I try to enable the AGP read write, it says it has to restart to test the settings, and they don't work. This is confusing because I have an AGP 8X card.Know why it's doing this?Specs:AMD Athlon 64 3200+HIS Radeon 9550 256MB AGP 8XThanks in advance, ask if you need more info. Svenjamin   
  At what point in your boot sequence does it freeze?   ;  It sounds somewhat like a problem I had in Win2000 Pro.  I suggest makeing sure all of your drivers are up-to-date and M$ certified.  Do you also keep your install up-to-date?  Do you run a up-to-date antivirus program and firewall?  Did this behavior begin after the installation of a certain program or other possible cause?The second question is a different story.  Assuming you are using the standard ATI Windows driver, those options are changeable in the menu thing(might be advanced menu).  However, those options could be disabled by some OEM manufacturers on OEM custom motherboards.  How are you checking if these settings are disabled?   ;  What kind of motherboard do you have?You may have a cold boot in which case could be solved by evaluating your power supply and/or raising the vcore.  It may also be related to the graphics card.   ;  Hey,Thanks for the replies,It looks liked it freezes right as it finishes loading the windows desktop. usually all of the icons on shortcuts don't finish loading when it freezes.My motherboard is Gigabyte K8-Triton nForce3 something or other, (I'm at school right now, can't check)As for the drivers and windows update stuff, I don't have an internet connection on my own PC, for a host of reasons. so I haven't done any windows updates or anything, (can I download the updates to a disk, then install them on my PC?)As for the ATI settings, I was using the ATI control panel, (found on the advanced tab of display setting) and I made a slight error, it was the AGP Bus speed that was disabled/set to 0x, when I enable it and move it up to 4X (that's the max setting) it restarts, and the settings do not remain.Gotta go to class, thanks for the helpSvenjamin   ;  Does your motherboard have an option for loading fail-safe settings?  If so, I'd switch over to that, and then try booting again.  If your system boots, then continue to adjust and change the settings on the board to your liking.  That's what I did when i had a problem like that.   ;  Burn graphic drivers on CD and update them. When you are into it update your mainboard drivers, and sound drivers as well. I asume you PC boots up into safe mode without problem. BTW check clock of your processor, if you didn't overclocked it by accident, and check your CPU cooler.   ;Quote:As for the ATI settings, I was using the ATI control panel, (found on the advanced tab of display setting) and I made a slight error, it was the AGP Bus speed that was disabled/set to 0x, when I enable it and move it up to 4X (that's the max setting) it restarts, and the settings do not remain.Not to insult your intelegence or anything, but are you sure your card is AGP.  The 9550 Radeon is avalable in a PCI version which could explain this problem.  If it is AGP, another question is are you the root/administrator account?  If you are not this could also explain why the settings are not saved. You may want to see if starting in Windows Safe Mode does not freezes when you boot.  If it does not, it means it is a problem with a program loading insead of a problem in windows.Quote:Does your motherboard have an option for loading fail-safe settings? If so, I'd switch over to that, and then try booting again.Seconded, the fail save mode in your BIOS is another good thing to try.   ;  well, smartgart will take down the settings if it notices instability, so if you trying to make it 4x is causing it to be unstable it will lower it to 0. however i believe this option doesn't even exist if you have pci or pci-e cards. just make sure you have fastwrite off. and make sure you have agp 4x enabled in the bios.however, do check to make sure you don't have a pci card.   ;  I have experienced a similar situation twice before.  Once was because of a CPU voltage problem, the other time I have no idea, but I suspect it was due to voltage as well.  Regardless, when I powered on the system it would hang, but sometimes it'd get into windows before hanging.  Either way, the only thing that worked was a hard reset.  It may not be helpful as you seem to be having issues with AGP, but it never hurts to check your other hardware as well (memory, etc...)Quote:I suggest makeing sure all of your drivers are up-to-date and M$ certified.While this is always good advice, it's MS (or Microsoft), not M$.  