Video Card Problem

[RustyGT]

Hi Folks
Doing up an old clunker for my neices.
It's a P150, 32M and Win98.
Had a 2M Trident video card [works fine, just slow]
Thinks me. Can do better.

So puts in my Savage 4 32M pci vidcard.
[works fine in my Duron 700, also worked fine in my old K6/2 300]
No go. No display at power on.

Tried different slots. Different monitors.
Tried removing s/card and modem and then different slots.
What gives?

Wondered whether the mobo wont support it?
It's an Award bios [may need to post back the version]

Any ideas?
Ta, R.

[SickPup404]

Is the Trident an ISA card? Maybe there's a setting in the BIOS? Dunno, reaching for straws here...

[mickwish]

Dunno, Rusty. Some old mobos haqve problems with some PCI devices, depending on the chipset. Can you give us details on the mobo as well?

Might be a BIOS upgrade somewhere for the mobo you could flash to get the Savage to work, hopefully.

Cheers
Mick

edit: just thought - a 32MB vid card. May be the RAM on the vid card conflicts with the mobo RAM. Most early socket 7 mobos would have limits on RAM allocation, so this vid card may be just too big! I have only used 8MB vid cards in old socket 7 boards, never tried a 32MB one (only have an AGP one anyway ). Might be an issue.

[paramufay]

Originally posted by RustyGT
Hi Folks
Doing up an old clunker for my neices.
It's a P150, 32M and Win98.
Had a 2M Trident video card [works fine, just slow]
Thinks me. Can do better.

So puts in my Savage 4 32M pci vidcard.
[works fine in my Duron 700, also worked fine in my old K6/2 300]
No go. No display at power on.

Tried different slots. Different monitors.
Tried removing s/card and modem and then different slots.
What gives?

Wondered whether the mobo wont support it?
It's an Award bios [may need to post back the version]

Any ideas?
Ta, R.

P150 boards were limited to 8 meg video card.

Get 2 32 meg strips of simm EDO memory and load win 98se and the P150 will perform as well as a 233.

there are no bios upgrades for the older mobo's that will allow 32 meg video card to work.