Arcadevga on intergrated mobo?

[Jox43w]

Is anybody running a arcadevga pci card on a motherboard with intergrated graphics? I need to know weather it will conflict with intergrated graphics.

[ahofle]

Can't you just disable the onboard graphics?  I used it on a mobo with onboard with no problems (but I had it disabled).

[Fozzy The Bear]

Like ahofle said..... You disable the onboard card either in the bios for the mobo or with a jumper on the mobo. The AVGA is just a normal graphics card with extra resolutions programmed into it.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

[Jox43w]

Im just being paranoid i thought i read some where a guy having trouble with his arcade vga due too intergrated graphics its a newish mobo gigabyte ga-g31m so i gues it will have the option to disable it in the bios.just out of intrest do you know the highest resolution the card gose up to id like to be able to use it on my pc monitor when its not in my cab.

[Fozzy The Bear]

Im just being paranoid i thought i read some where a guy having trouble with his arcade vga due too intergrated graphics its a newish mobo gigabyte ga-g31m so i gues it will have the option to disable it in the bios.just out of intrest do you know the highest resolution the card gose up to id like to be able to use it on my pc monitor when its not in my cab.

Yes you can do that with it as well. It does all the normal PC resolutions. At the end of the day it's just a normal ATI graphics card with some extra stuff thrown into the bios..... But you'll have to set the frequencies correctly or you'll fry your monitor or your arcade monitor. Not sure how you switch between the two, to be honest. You might have to boot into safe mode to switch between them.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

[DeLuSioNal29]

I had problems with my Arcade VGA and an integrated graphics motherboard.  My model was by PC Chips (MSI) PCChips A13G+.  The problem was that you could not disable the onboard graphics with a switch in the BIOS or with a jumper setting.  It did it automatically when the new graphics card was inserted.  That's where the problem was.  I ended up swapping the motherboard out with another type that did not have integrated graphics and that solved the problem.

Here is a link to the product that did not work for me: 
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3304880&sku=P459-1236&srkey=%09P459-1236

Here's some video footage of the problems I was experiencing with that board the the Arcade VGA2 PCIe card:
- specifically, the playback of wmv files (wmv acceleration) as seen in the intro.  Also most notably the "sparkling" interference seen during the transitions in the front end, the Hamsterball game and the Dreamcast emulator.


Hope this helped!

~ DeLuSioNaL

[Ummon]

I had problems with my Arcade VGA and an integrated graphics motherboard.  My model was by PC Chips (MSI) PCChips A13G+.  The problem was that you could not disable the onboard graphics with a switch in the BIOS or with a jumper setting.  It did it automatically when the new graphics card was inserted.  That's where the problem was.  I ended up swapping the motherboard out with another type that did not have integrated graphics and that solved the problem.

I thought this was a bad card? Since you replaced both, I don't think we can say which it was. As for it auto-selecting, why would that be a problem? It could be inconvenient if you wanted to compare between them, but my later model Asus mobo is integrated (Intel 895G I think) and autoselects and I've never had troubles.

[DeLuSioNal29]

Actually, I did pop the new AVGA2 card into the "integrated motherboard" comp along with the arcade hard drive (ended up donating it to my old man - AMD 4000+ and built the new one - AMD 4200+) and although the "sparkles and interference problem" went away when I popped it in, the WMV acceration was still acting funky and I still got the "green" intro.  Popped both the new AVGA2 card and hard drive into the new machine w/o integrated graphics and the problem went away.

Perhaps it was the new 4200+ processor then?    I don't think so.

I'd play it safe and not get integrated graphics.  After all, you're replacing the graphics anyway right?

~ DeLuSioNaL

[Ummon]

I'd play it safe and not get integrated graphics.  After all, you're replacing the graphics anyway right?

~ DeLuSioNaL

Ah. Well, nowadays I would probably just do that, yes....although I just the other day wondered whether Nvidia-based adapters would have the same capabilities as external. SS said she thought so, and if one had at least two gigs of system memory.....