Mobile and soft modded video card

PandaZ3

I recently re-aquired control over my NF7-S and this was my problem..posted elsewhere.

Well I have a NF7-S V2.0, had it for about 3 years, 1700, 2100 and for a year and a half a normal 2600 lightly OC'd. It has a PC Power and Cooling 350W PSU, Bought new with this board (15 Amp +12.0V rail, but a 'real' 15 Amps). 9500 Pro softmodded to a 9700. Using onboard sound with some small Altec 121's. 2x512 Super Talent Ram, 80 gig and 20 gig Maxtor IDE HDDs, Floppy, 12 Creative DVD drive, 4 year old TDK CD Burner, Windows XP home w SP2. I had the Merlin d27 T2 bios, but after this problem flashed to Tic Tac's D26 XT T2 Bios.

That's the equipment almost... last night I brought home a 2600 Mobile. Intending to upgrade this comp and later another in the trickle down effect.
I installed the Mobile and put everything back together. I did re-plug the 4 pin power to the 9500 Pro, and the 4 pin and 20 pin connectors to the Mother board. I think I did it all correctly.

When I powered up I was unable to read the post due to a sort of artifacting, I could not read the bios pages, due to a similar problem. It does boot into windows, I can get on line but the screen is striped vertically. It has equal width stripes about three quarters of a inch wide. So there is a clear normal portion of the screen 3/4 of a inch wide a stripe made of fine vertical line, you can see thru it but it kind of " grays out" the background and text is very difficult to read. it keeps alternating like that, (Clear, stripe, clear, stripe) the entire width of the screen.

I did get things a little clearer with the new Bios flash on the initial post. I can now read maybe 10 percent more. Both the Merlin Bios and the Tic Tac Bios are supposed to be able to recognize the Mobile CPU's.

One word about the Mobile, my other 2600 mobile had a brown PCB and this one is green..... I am suspicious of that.

I know a lot of people will think PSU, but the only thing different is a lower power CPU, so I don't think that is my problem.

(I did reseat the cooler and video card, and Ram)

Any body seen this before?

PandaZ3

Now I have the solution and thought folks here might know of it....maybe not, but it is interesting.

Posted in another forum, a fellow said he had a similar problem with a 5900 and 5950 Bios. Other video cards worked well and when the 5900 was flashed back to a 5900, it too worked fine

It would seem that Mobiles in particular do not like Video card mods, something I found a little bizarre.....but hey I don't have to understand it just live with it.

Green is good so far. I was at a wall with my XP2600 at 11x200. I have this one at 11.5x200 now and will try for more soon.

I will migrate my 9500 Pro to my A64 and my AIW 9600XT to the NF7-S, the 7000 back to the MSI 1700.