Best Answer: Enter your bios and change the setting, assuming there is one. Since you don't know how to set it, most likely your video card only supports 4x AGP. What is the model/year of your video card?
Depending on who makes your bios, at the boot screen you'll need to hit either DEL, F2, F12 or possibly something else. It should say somewhere on the screen.
In the BIOS, you'll need to look for the AGP setting. It may be under a PCI section, chipset settings or peripherals.
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Re:Safe mode works. I thought it might be a graphic driver problem too, which is why I wiped all the Radeon/nVidia drivers off my machine using Driver Cleaner. Still did the same monitor standby deal. Since it wasn't just one but two AGP video cards doing the same thing, I can only assume it is the AGP slot. But we all know about assumptions…
edit: as I mentioned, I also re-installed Windows which should have fixed any driver problems.
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Re:as soon as I load up Windows XP, my monitor will turn off like the video card is not sending it a signal
This implies a gfx driver problem to me.
I take it you are seeing the BIOS screen and POST screen?
When windows loads, it loads your gfx driver. From what you post that sounds like the problem.
What happens when you try safe mode? (no drivers are loaded in safe mode, other than vanilla MS)
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Re:I still have not figured out if this is fixable or not. I guess I'll be ordering a new motherboard tomorrow when I get paid.
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Re:I can't test that at this point since my monitor goes into standby mode as soon as Windows loads up.
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Re:Hi there guy
If you try to just use say office or any other 2d application do you still have video or is it garbled as well? It does sound like the voltage going to the agp slot is getting messed up since the regular pci slots seem to work
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