Erm, I could make some probably-wrong suggestions:
Find the manual for your motherboard and work out what the sequence of beeps means - it's trying to tell you what's wrong, bless its heart!
There could be an IRQ (interrupt request) conflict with the new graphics card, although I'm sure it should be plug and play etc. Look in your BIOS and see if any IRQs have been reserved by naughty things (and so block plug and play). You could also try running your computer with the bare minimum plugged into it to see if that can get it to work (so take out sound card, network card, whatever else you have).
You can also check that your BIOS has been set so that it knows you have a plug and play operation system, and generally switch on plug and play.
You could also try setting your bios back to default settings to see if that helps. You could also see what bios version you have (look when it boos up) and have a look at the web site for your motherboard manufacturer and see whether they've made newer versions of your bios software which fix incompatibilities with AGP graphics cards. If so then you could try upgrading your bios (be very careful if you choose to do this).
Do you know what AGP slot speed multiplication your motherboard supports (e.g. 1x, 2x, 4x)? Do you know what multiplication the graphics card expects? I guess the card should be backwards compatible if the speeds don't match.
Or the AGP slot itself could be knackered, or the card itself. If you have another computer around the place then test the card in that, and try a known-good AGP grapics card in yours if you have one...
There are probably lots of other things that could be wrong. Hope this helps a bit. Good luck!
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Date: 2003-05-24 01:28 pm (UTC)Erm, I could make some probably-wrong suggestions:
Find the manual for your motherboard and work out what the sequence of beeps means - it's trying to tell you what's wrong, bless its heart!
There could be an IRQ (interrupt request) conflict with the new graphics card, although I'm sure it should be plug and play etc. Look in your BIOS and see if any IRQs have been reserved by naughty things (and so block plug and play). You could also try running your computer with the bare minimum plugged into it to see if that can get it to work (so take out sound card, network card, whatever else you have).
You can also check that your BIOS has been set so that it knows you have a plug and play operation system, and generally switch on plug and play.
You could also try setting your bios back to default settings to see if that helps. You could also see what bios version you have (look when it boos up) and have a look at the web site for your motherboard manufacturer and see whether they've made newer versions of your bios software which fix incompatibilities with AGP graphics cards. If so then you could try upgrading your bios (be very careful if you choose to do this).
Do you know what AGP slot speed multiplication your motherboard supports (e.g. 1x, 2x, 4x)? Do you know what multiplication the graphics card expects? I guess the card should be backwards compatible if the speeds don't match.
Or the AGP slot itself could be knackered, or the card itself. If you have another computer around the place then test the card in that, and try a known-good AGP grapics card in yours if you have one...
There are probably lots of other things that could be wrong. Hope this helps a bit. Good luck!
Nick