re: will a pci video card work on a AGP motherboard?
Monday, January 17, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11847 messages posted)
steve
A P4 3gig should have auto BIOS..
BUT you did say what kind of MB you have...
Go into the BIOS to start with if you can't because you can't see it..
make sure the onboard speaker is plugged in..
you should get a error beep (s) if you have a video error.
Then make sure you have the ram is in right...and the right ram for the MB.
Your machine should boot with the pci video card.
If it's a good video card and it's in right.
also check the video cables just to make sure(in right)
Once you have a video reboot into the BIOS and set the boot order up CDROM:,C:,A:
Then give it a try.
On Monday, January 17, 2005 at 2:15 pm, steve wrote:
>I'm building a new computer , intel P4 3ghz,
>the motherboard has an AGP slot for a video card.
>I've got a new (blank HD) , win 2k install CD in the
>cd drive. And a good (pulled out of an existing win2k system) (but old) diamond
stealth
>16meg PCI video card in one of the slots.
>
>I turn on the computer, no video signal at all.
>The cd drive starts and stops and acts like it's reading the cd just fine.
>
>My question is, is my motherboard dead? or does it require an AGP video card?
>
>Shouldn't a PCI video card work? or does it need some kind of bios settings.
>thanks,
>
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