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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: schmidtp on February 21, 2014, 08:44:14 pm

Title: Problem with Radeon 9000 not working on GA_686bx mother board
Post by: schmidtp on February 21, 2014, 08:44:14 pm

Hi Guys,

I've got a Gigabyte GA-686BX I want to use for a jukebox project. Trouble is I needed a card with DVI out instead of VGA. So I got a Radeon 9000/256M DDR PCI card which has VGA/DVI and S video out.

When I plug it in to the PCI slot, the computer will turn on, however won't do self checks, no hard disk crunching, just stays on doing nothing. And there's no output from the graphics card either to give any error messages.
The current board thats in there is an S3 ViRGE/DX (thats whats on the chip and I think it's 32MB).

Even though the jukebox doesn't need a lot of grunt to run, I'm finding too many limitations with the motherboard. I'm trying to get around this, but as soon as you fix one, there's another in it's place! Which is a shame really because this computers just sitting in the shed collecting dust otherwise.

Any help would be appreciated guys

Thanks

Pete

Title: Re: Problem with Radeon 9000 not working on GA_686bx mother board
Post by: 404 on February 22, 2014, 11:02:23 am

double check your bios settings for any option to force video from a particular slot, be it AGP or PCI. I actually have an old ITX machine that requires the bios to be set in order to get any video from a separate graphics card.

Title: Re: Problem with Radeon 9000 not working on GA_686bx mother board
Post by: schmidtp on February 24, 2014, 12:21:29 pm

Thanks 404,

I did check that, funny thing is it's set as AGP, but is outputting on the PCI slot with the old card!
I've also tried an AGP card with AGP set in BIOS. Doesn't seem to like that either.
I'll try swapping it to PCI and see what it does.

Thanks

Pete