Hi out there!

Recently I needed to change my BIOS settings.

As usual I pressed "DEL" (like I did a thousend times before successfully) at the right time during booting but instead of displaying the BIOS (YES, the blue menu of my AMI BIOS of the K7S5A Elitegroup mainboard to which a standard NVidia GForce 2 GTS AGP graphics adapter is connected) my monitor (standard 15'' TFT monitor from Gericom) only prompted a window saying [highlight]"VGA MODE not support"[/highlight]

[Special remark: Is this good English???]

Regular remark: This message is also displayed for a very short time during the normal boot procedure but disappears after windows xp is started and continues booting).

So I replaced the graphics card, checked connectors, pressed "DEL" another thousend times without any success, checked the Web but I couldn't find an answer to this problem anywhere :-?

Does anybody have an idea about this problem? I really would be greatful.

Regards

Susifernbedienung03..... I dont know why you were changing the bios , but if you were to SHUTDOWN ........ open up the case and remove the battery ( leave it out for 10 or 15 minutes ) the bios should reset and hopefully you can then replace the battery and then get back into the bios in the normal way .

dl65 Thanks a lot for your hint dl65.

Unfortunately nearly nothing changed after mounting the battery HALF an hour later again (same problem remained). Only the system clock was frozen during that period of time and so the clock went half an hour late after booting again.

For me this behaviour of the clock actually seems to be impossible, because:

- if there is a power supply buffer in addition to the battery (like an electrical condenser) then the clock should not interrupt at all, or

- if the mainboard power supply really is interrupted completely (what the purpose of dismounting the battery for half an hour was) the BIOS setup should be reset and so should bethe clock (meaning that it is reset e.g. at October 29, 2002; 00:00).

So, what caused to clock only to interrupt and not to reset?

So are there any other ideas about my problem out there?

SusiThe only thing I could think of is that maybe your monitor is hooked up using a digital input and your computer doesn't like that for some reason?

Other than that... has to be some bad hardware. No software involved at that point. Would be cheapest and easiest to try another video card first. Maybe you could borrow one or buy a really outdated cheapie somewhere?

Could be that the BIOS is corrupted and reflashing it using the new BIOS + tools from the ECS web-site may help. Flashing your BIOS when things aren't working well can be dangerous though. If something goes wrong, you're done.

Never hurts to test all the hardware you can. I use TuffTEST (the $10.00 version). Tests quite a BIT of your hardware (CPU, memory, hard drives, etc...) There are separate freeware tests alot of people on this site use. Would probably be a good idea to run some tests before attempting to flash the BIOS. Better safe than sorry.