Hello Eric,

Make sure that the Initialize Display Device in the BIOS is set to
PCI, not AGP.

Also, if you use a cheap PCI card (I'm using an old PCI Trident 9680
2Mb card) you can run multiple display with this card as the primary
display. The secondary card (AGP in this case) needs to be a compliant
card (ie GeForce, TNT, etc.)

Friday, September 13, 2002, 10:03:53 AM, you wrote:

EW> On many motherboards there is a setting to toggle the main display
EW> between agp and pci.. Perhaps this one is looking for a card in the agp
EW> slot?

EW> I recently bought 2 video cards for this machine both Visiontek:1) Xtasy
EW> 5564 gforce2 MX400 64MB PCI (retail).When that one did'nt work, I got
EW> this, 2) nVIDIA TNT2 M64 16MB SDRAM PCI (oem).When I inserted these
EW> cards, Nothing came up on the display, even the BIOS menu didn't show
EW> up. It doesn't work at all. But strangely enough, you could hear hard
EW> drive being accessed and Windows seemed to boot up with no video signal
EW> output. However, I inserted these cards into a new machine and they
EW> worked!

EW> Grant Hightower

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