I have a winbond motherboard(877F) with Award bios. My bios string is:
10/16/97 i430TX,W83877F-2A59IM2AC-00.
When i insert an ISA vga card, the computer boots up normaly,
but when i insert a PCI vga card i only have a black screen (nothing on my monitor), but i can hear the system boot up. When i boot up with the ISA vga card, and the PCI card also inserted, windows98 finds new hardware ans installs the PCI card, but there is still nothing on the monitor, when switching to the PCI card. The PCI card is tested in another computer, where it works ok. Pease help me!!
PCI\VGA problem
What PCI video card is it? Old motherboards sometimes can't handle PCI video cards with > 32 MB of RAM on them. I have an ASUS TX97-XE and it can handle a GeForce 2 MX with 64 MB of RAM (8 chips) but can't handle any other 64 MB video card that has less than 8 chips.
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Interesting georgep...
What in the motherboard design could cause this? I would think that the video card, being a seperate entity, would not be bound by the rules or the motherboard design (ie: chipset memory limitations, etc...)...
What in the motherboard design could cause this? I would think that the video card, being a seperate entity, would not be bound by the rules or the motherboard design (ie: chipset memory limitations, etc...)...
CPU - DFI 586IPVG, K6-2/+ 450 (Cyrix MII 433), i430VX, 128MB EDO.
BIOS patched by BiosMan (Jan Steunebrink).
BIOS patched by BiosMan (Jan Steunebrink).
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http://test.horizon.sk.ca/hardware/m/S-T/34464.htm
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http://test.horizon.sk.ca/hardware/m/S-T/34679.htm
clear cmos.
http://test.horizon.sk.ca/hardware/m/S-T/34464.htm
or
http://test.horizon.sk.ca/hardware/m/S-T/34679.htm
clear cmos.
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System error, strike any user to continue...
Do not assume anything
System error, strike any user to continue...
KachiWachi,KachiWachi wrote:Interesting georgep...
What in the motherboard design could cause this? I would think that the video card, being a seperate entity, would not be bound by the rules or the motherboard design (ie: chipset memory limitations, etc...)...
Sorry I didn't see this when you posted it. This was talked about a little in the following thread.
http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopi ... video+64mb
and in the asus mainboard newsgroup. alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
No one came to any firm conclusions.