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Please help: QDI 440BX/B1 Brilliant-I only shows a QDI gold medal logo on boot?

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First post, by eliot_new

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Hello,

Please help me.
I try to setup up properly my LEGEND QDI P6I440BX/B1 Brilliant-I

On boot I see some seconds the logo of the graphics card and then it appears the QDI gold medal logo.
Then it seems the PC halts on an error.

As I don't have a PC Speaker adapter, I have no clue what this error could be?
Question: is there a magic key to skip the QDI logo?

I tried ESC, Tab, DEL, F1...F10 along with ESC+ALT+CTRL but nothing helps to skip the logo.
Furthoremore I changed several components: P3-450, P3-550, 64MB 128MB 256MB SDRAM PC100, TNT2 AGP, Spea Mirage V7 PCI

Even I removed the battery and before I cleared the CMOS several times but always the same: PC stops on QDI logo and I don´t see what is wrong.
I have tryied out what will happen if I populate all 3 SDRAMs with 3x256MB => result: no boot at all

All the hardware used is 100% correct as I have the brother of it called QDI
P6I440BX/B1S => with it all mentioned hardware works.

How could I figure out whether some capacitor or the bios chip are dead?

Thx a lot in advance if somebody can help!

DOS:K6-3/400,192MB,P5A,Rendition v2200 AGP,Trio64 PCI,3dfx V1,AWE64,ESS1938,PicoGUS,32GB
w98SE:P3/450,768MB,QDI440BX,V3AGP,AWE64,PicoGUS,80GB
wXP:P3/1G,512MB,CUSL2-C,MSIFX5600,Audigy1,80GB

Reply 1 of 3, by wbahnassi

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It's both cool and annoying. The switch to disable the logo is from within the BIOS settings, but you can't get there if there's a hang happening that prevents you from going into the BIOS setup.

I had an QDI 440LX board that had this "feature".. IIRC it was paired with a QDI AGP display card as well.. and together, the board was showing the logo.. if I swap the card to an old ISA VGA card then the logo doesn't show up at all even if the BIOS setting for it was on.

So it's either a "fully QDI combo" thing, or it requires a PCI/AGP card that has certain bits allowing the board to display the logo. IIRC the logo was 640x480 256c, so probably the BIOS is looking for the VESA mode and only display the logo if the mode is supported. So my suggestion is to try the oldest VGA card you have instead of the AGP one.

Turbo XT 12MHz, 8-bit VGA, Dual 360K drives
Intel 386 DX-33, Speedstar 24X, SB 1.5, 1x CD
Intel 486 DX2-66, CL5428 VLB, SBPro 2, 2x CD
Intel Pentium 90, Matrox Millenium 2, SB16, 4x CD
HP Z400, Xeon 3.46GHz, YMF-744, Voodoo3, RTX2080Ti

Reply 2 of 3, by wbahnassi

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Here is a screenshot of a cold boot without the logo. DEL gets you into the setup, and F1 to continue the boot.

Turbo XT 12MHz, 8-bit VGA, Dual 360K drives
Intel 386 DX-33, Speedstar 24X, SB 1.5, 1x CD
Intel 486 DX2-66, CL5428 VLB, SBPro 2, 2x CD
Intel Pentium 90, Matrox Millenium 2, SB16, 4x CD
HP Z400, Xeon 3.46GHz, YMF-744, Voodoo3, RTX2080Ti

Reply 3 of 3, by eliot_new

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wbahnassi wrote on 2026-01-17, 13:56:

Here is a screenshot of a cold boot without the logo. DEL gets you into the setup, and F1 to continue the boot.

Thank you very much, I will try to find a solution and tell you here.

DOS:K6-3/400,192MB,P5A,Rendition v2200 AGP,Trio64 PCI,3dfx V1,AWE64,ESS1938,PicoGUS,32GB
w98SE:P3/450,768MB,QDI440BX,V3AGP,AWE64,PicoGUS,80GB
wXP:P3/1G,512MB,CUSL2-C,MSIFX5600,Audigy1,80GB

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