Jose

I don't know yet if it is the card.  The motherboard is new and the card
came from a system with numerous problems, so I am assuming it is the card.
You are correct that the PCI will give a real boost over the ISA, but if you
can find an ISA card even from an old 286 then it will at least let you
prove if the mobo is okay (obviously not the PCI portion) and let you finish
configuring the system.

Mike Buraczewski
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|> Try finding an old ISA bus video card and putting it in the machine to
see
|> if it works like that.   I put in the old ISA card and the system works
|> perfectly.  Obviously I will have to replace that ISA card at some point.

|I'm curious, was the PCI card bad or is it the motherboard that's bad? PCI
video
|cards are probably cheaper than ISA video cards, and the performance boost
is
|very noticeable.
|
|Jose