Vid issues wit an Emachine

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:12 am

Maybe someone here can figure this one out. One of my guys at work has this emachine that was blue screening and his antivirus was 04 norton. He tried everything I suggested and still nothing but blue screens. He brought it to work and I took it home. Removed the drive and installed it in another machine as a slave and was able to retrieve his personal data and what not. After reinstalling the drive and doing a fresh install of 2000 pro, it locks up at the startup logo. It has a cheapo vid card installed cause the onboard was supposed to be fried (according to the local comp shop). I changed the vid adapter in the bios to the onboard and bam! boots fine using the onboard video, but of course its real crappy and what not. Installed sp4 and rebooted. All the hardware seems to be fine, i.e. no yellow !,?. I shut it down and try the vid card again (tried more than one) and still the same thing. This thing just refuses to display off the card. It will work in safe mode but not normaly. It originaly had ME on it and would boot normally but blue screen after about 10 min. I didnt change any hardware and all the settings in the bios are the same. Anyone got any Ideas? Was hoping to take it back to him tommorow.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:48 am

Older eMachines were rather notorious for not liking add-on video cards.

Even if the vid adapter is set to the add-on card, Windows may still be seeing the onboard adapter and assigning resources to it which may be the problem. Boot from the add-on video in safe mode and then check device manager and disable the onboard card if it's listed (don't remove it, just disable it).

Hope this helps...

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:52 am

Thanx, gonna try it now.

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:30 am

Thanx FP, worked like a champ. And yeah this thing is a dinosaur for sure. 633mhz.