Matrox G200 MMS video cardwon't work with my new machine properly

[jet88]

sorry it's a bit long.
I have a Matrox G200 MMS Quad video card working with my old machine, but not working properly in my new machine, only the first video port works, the rest of ports will show either "frequency out of range" on CRT or "input not support" on LCD. I'm thinking video Horizontal frequency from port 2/3/4 is below required, here is details:

video card: Matrox G200 MMS PCI,
Model: G2+Quadp_PL-9
Bios: V3.3.034(latest)
Driver: 5.93.009(should be latest)

Old Machine:
Dell Demension 2100
Pentium 3 860M
512M Ram PC133
HD: 40G
win2000 Sp4
two monitor: one DELL CRT, one Rosewill R912E LCD


I build the new machine to replace the old machine, all parts are from newegg.com
CPU: AMD sempron 2800+
MOBO: ECS 755-A2
MOBO BIOS: updated to latest from ECS website.
MOBO driver: updated to latest from ECS website, such as AGP, USB, LAN, AUDIO, etc.
RAM: 1G DDR400 PC3200 from PQI
HD: samsung 250G SATA
DVD: NEC
CASE: Rosewill TU-155, 400W
OS: winxp sp2 with all patch from microsoft

I have had G200 MMS on my Dell machine for more than a year, works fine with my two monitors. put it into my new machine, only the first video port works fine, I have done extensive tests so far with no luck, hope someone can see the problem from what I have done so far:

1. if I put CRT into video port #2,or #3, or #4, it will show "frequency is out of range".
if I lower resolution to 640X480, it still shows "frequency is out of range" on top, but I can see blur shaking WinXP background(sky with grass), if resolution is above 640X480, there is no background at all

2. If I switch LCD into video port other than #1, it will float "input not supported" all around, if resolution is lower than 800X600, again I can see blur WinXP background, but "input not supported"still floating around. press adjust button in LCD, no response.

3. get into device manager, under display adapter, I see four G200MMS(it should be), and goes to display->advance->adapter/monitor, show correct G200MMS driver. no exclaimation on any devices under device manager. change hardware accelaration, not working.

4. uninstall G200MMS driver and reinstall it, no luck

5. unistall g200mms driver from safe mode, use matrox tool to clean it up(downloaded from matrox site), reinstall driver, no luck.

6. uninstall Winxp Sp2, no luck,

7. clean install winxp sp1, no luck,

8. add SP2 again, no luck.

9. there are 5 PCI slot in my machine, tried one by one, not working, slot 2 even worse, when G200MMS in slot 2, windows report error when started,
stop: 0x000000EA (0X85AB1798,0X85D6E7C0,0XF7A0FCB4,0X00000001), with message" device driver got sruck in an infinite loop, this usually indicates problem with the device itself or with device driver programming the hardware incorrectly" then it restarted.

10. get into BIOS, it shows PCI as initial display, there is only one G200MMS PCI card on MOBO.

11, try to disable other unnecessary device such as USB, AUDIO, RAID,etc in BIOS, no help.

12. I noticed that it shows "input not supported" even before windows fully loaded

I checked LCD manual, "input not support"message means video is out of range, I think this is referring to horizontal frequency. for example, for LCD

resolution | Horizontal frequency | vertical Frequency
640X480, | 31.4Khz | 60Hz
1024X768 | 48.8kHz | 60Hz
1280X1024 | 64Khz | 60Hz


I'm thinking video frequency from port 2/3/4 is below required, anyone know how to fix this?

any help is appreciated

[flanzig1]

Since that board has an AGP slot, may need to go into the BIOS to disable it. Also, the first white slot next to the brown/yellow slot may be tied to the AGP slot so that may be why you got the error.

[jet88]

Thanks for reply, I tried to find place in BIOS to disable AGP, can't find one.
I tried every PCI slot in my machine, no luck, the second one is worst with stop error of 0x000000EA.