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PCI graphics issue

Mar 3, 2004 9:27PM PST

Greetings all, I'm new to the forum and I hope someone will be able to offer some advice.

Sick of onboard "AGP" graphics which wouldn't play DVDs faster than 10 fps I decided to buy a cheap PCI graphics card; a 32Mb Pine 3D phantom (based on the SiS 315E chipset).

I installed it into a motherboard from an unknown manufacturer with the VIA Apollo MVP4 chipset.

The card refuses to give any output whatsoever despite me changing the "primary VGA" in bios to "PCI card" from "AGP". Also I disabled the onboard AGP but there was still no response from the PCI card. Interestingly enough, with "onboard AGP" set to "disabled" the onboard graphics still produces an image.

In addition, when I allow the machine to boot up Win98SE it doesn't detect the card. I've swapped ethernet and modem cards around enough to determine that all the PCI slots work. Also, when I put the PCI graphics card into my shuttle, it boots first time and uses the PCI card as the primary VGA device.

What could possibly be wrong?
Cheers.

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Re:PCI graphics issue
Mar 3, 2004 9:47PM PST

YOu don't tell us the brand/model of the system you are currently using or the motherboard if it is a non branded system. That is really important to know to help.

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Re:PCI graphics issue or rather a "Super Socket 7" and DVD issue.
Mar 3, 2004 10:13PM PST

Unless I installed a hardware DVD decoder, I never found a software solution to play DVD on even a K6-2-500. It just didn't have the oomph to pull that off.

I'll write that's not going to fix it.

Bob