[Cialug] PCI Video No Boot

[David Champion]

I would suspect you have a bad video card, or some other issue. An old 
PCI card should work.

There are a lot of decent deals on not quite top-of-the-line video cards 
out there. You can get a nVidia 9800 GT for $99, which is a really nice 
card. It will play most of the current generation games just fine, if 
you're so inclined.

Tigerdirect often has deals on some pretty nice cards. I'd recommend XFX 
branded cards - they have a pretty good warranty replacement policy, my 
last several cards have been from them.

-dc

Todd Walton wrote:
> So I've built me a phat new computer:
>
> 1) Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz with VT support
> 2) 4GB DDR2 Kingston "HyperX" memory
> 3) Asus P5Q SE/R mobo
> 4) Everything else will be what I already have
>
> About a day after ordering the parts I realized that this motherboard
> has no AGP port and no built-in video.  In itself that's not a
> problem.  But all I have is an AGP video card.  All it takes is PCI-E,
> and it has PCI slots.  I wanted to get it up and running (the parts
> arrived yesterday) so I dug through my box of crap and found an old
> PCI video card.  I'll get a PCI-E on my next paycheck I suppose, but
> this'll do to make sure the system at least works, so I can send back
> anything that doesn't.
>
> Only...  it didn't work.  I got the initial BIOS splash screen and a
> message at the bottom about which key to press to enter BIOS setup.
> But the text was garbled with dense vertical lines in place of the
> letters.  The splash images were fine.  And it went no further.  It
> just remained on that screen indefinitely.
>
> It's possible that the card is bad.  But I suspect that what's
> actually happening is that the BIOS just doesn't know how to run a PCI
> video card.  PCI, yes.  But a video card?  It's been a while since PCI
> video cards were produced.  What's funny is that I really don't care
> about graphics.  As long as mpegs play, I'm good.
>
> So now I have to rustle up a PCI-E video card somewhere.  Anybody have
> an under-$40 suggestion?
>
> -todd
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