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From: Trimble Bracegirdle on 21 Feb 2007 17:49
You will get nowhere unless & untill you can be certain the card works..
Try to use it in another machine ...or find another card to try in yours.
Mouse
@@@


From: DaveW on 21 Feb 2007 18:35
You likely missed something. You HAVE to turn off the onboard VGA in the
BIOS in order for the AGP slot to work on most motherboards.

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DaveW
<arthur.nudge(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On my experimental PC I decided to switch from the embedded vga to a
> 4x AGP card that I grabbed off ebay.
>
> However, when I put the card in, the pc will not boot. The fans and HD
> spin, but that's it. No speaker chirp or anything. Is the card toast,
> or is there something obvious I'm missing?
>
> I did check the bios, nothing interesting there, and the motherboard
> manual doesn't list any jumpers or anything to disable the onboard
> video.
> FWIW, it's an elitegroup p4vmm motherboard, and a Gigabyte GeForce4
> MX4000 128MB 8x/4x AGP card.
>


From: Rod Speed on 21 Feb 2007 22:49
DaveW <done(a)gone.org> wrote:

> You likely missed something. You HAVE to turn off the onboard VGA in the BIOS in order for the
> AGP slot to work on most motherboards.

Wrong, as always. And that one clearly says that you can use both at once.

>> On my experimental PC I decided to switch from the embedded vga to a
>> 4x AGP card that I grabbed off ebay.
>>
>> However, when I put the card in, the pc will not boot. The fans and
>> HD spin, but that's it. No speaker chirp or anything. Is the card
>> toast, or is there something obvious I'm missing?
>>
>> I did check the bios, nothing interesting there, and the motherboard
>> manual doesn't list any jumpers or anything to disable the onboard
>> video.
>> FWIW, it's an elitegroup p4vmm motherboard, and a Gigabyte GeForce4
>> MX4000 128MB 8x/4x AGP card.


From: x5 on 22 Feb 2007 00:42
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:49:29 -0000, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
<no-spam(a)Spam.Not> wrote:

>You will get nowhere unless & untill you can be certain the card works..
>Try to use it in another machine ...or find another card to try in yours.
>Mouse
>@@@
>

yep! find urself another card. go to a used place and get a crappy AGP
for peanuts. bought an ATI rage128 for 1$ in a flea market. or try it
in another computer. its 2007 everyone has 5 or 6 computer lying
around! lol



From: Mike T. on 22 Feb 2007 09:48

<arthur.nudge(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> >
>> First you need to find the exact specifications of your mainboard. There
>> were THREE different versions of it (P4VMM) released by ECS. I know the
>> latest version supported AGP 4X, but did all three of them? If you can
>> confirm that your board is AGP 4X compatible:
>
> I double checked, it's the p4vmm3, and the manual confirms that it
> supports 4x.
>>
>> You must be missing something in the BIOS.
>
> The only thing I can find is on the PCI/Plug and Play page:
> Share Memory size [32mb]
> Primary Graphics Adapter [AGP]
> Allocate IRQ for PCI VGA [NO]
>
> The manual claims that "the default AGP setting still lets the onboard
> display work and allows the use of a second display card installed in
> an AGP slot."

Oh!!! That throws a different light on the situation. I'd suggest you test
your new AGP video card in a different system. If you can confirm that the
new video card is working fine, then you probably need to flash your BIOS to
a later version. Regardless of what the manual says, what should be
happening is NOT happening. So you've got a hardware problem (new video
card defective) or more likely a BIOS issue, which hopefully would be solved
by flashing your BIOS to a later version.

You've got another problem. If you can get the computer to boot at default
BIOS settings, Windows will want to use your monitor as a SECOND monitor.
So you've still got to find a way to disable onboard video, somehow. -Dave


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