it's working now! thanks Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 8:50 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by steve (2 messages posted) Hi, thanks for the suggestions! Nobody told me that the motherboard requires two (2) power connections! Theres a small square four-pin power connection that I had missed. After connecting it up it works great! 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, > Written in response to: will a pci video card work on a AGP motherboard? (steve: Monday, January 17, 2005 at 2:15 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] will a pci video card work on a AGP motherboard? (steve: Mon, Jan 17, 2005, 2:15 pm) re: will a pci video card work on a AGP motherboard? (DEX: Mon, Jan 17, 2005, 3:34 pm) re: will a pci video card work on a AGP motherboard? (Steve Dunn: Mon, Jan 17, 2005, 3:51 pm) re: will a pci video card work on a AGP motherboard? (ogai: Tue, Jan 18, 2005, 5:06 am) it's working now! thanks (steve: Tue, Jan 18, 2005, 8:50 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum