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Title: starting up with AVGA
Post by: JCKnife on December 02, 2004, 11:41:33 pm: So I'm looking into building my own PC now and I'm considering an ASUS mobo that has no onboard video. I've got my AVGA and a D9200 monitor. What I want to know is, how will I be able to put the system together without another video option? Will the AVGA work the first time I plug it in? I won't have any other monitor option for installing drivers or changing settings. Will this work?

Heck for that matter it won't even have an OS on it when I get it. This is totally from scratch. Can this be done?
Title: Re: starting up with AVGA
Post by: ChadTower on December 03, 2004, 09:44:51 am: Guess you need to try it and find out!

(I actually don't know the answer yet)
Title: Re: starting up with AVGA
Post by: JCKnife on December 03, 2004, 10:23:20 am: I found a $17 PCI video card I can use for system set-up. Maybe that's the best answer.
Title: Re: starting up with AVGA
Post by: ChadTower on December 03, 2004, 10:24:18 am: In either case, could someone answer his question? I'd like to know, I'm about to do this myself.
Title: Re: starting up with AVGA
Post by: Troz on December 03, 2004, 11:08:40 am: I installed a fresh copy of XP using ArcadeVGA and my arcade monitor. The only problem I had was that I could only see the top half of the screen during the first section of Windows installation. As long as you know the keypresses needed you'll be ok. After the first reboot during installation I was able to see the full screen.

Also, I wasn't able to get the ArcadeVGA drivers installed on a XP installation that had SP2 slipstreamed into it. I had to reinstall a version of XP without SP2 integrated to get it to work.
Title: Re: starting up with AVGA
Post by: ChadTower on December 03, 2004, 11:17:04 am: Right... so the best approach is to use a regular video card up until the first reboot, then switch. Got it.
Title: Re: starting up with AVGA
Post by: DYNAGOD on December 04, 2004, 12:06:18 pm: using a normal vieo card can lead to driver/regisrty problems later with the arcade VGA.
find a step by step walkthru for installing windows xp fresh and print it out, then do it blind, with only half the screen showing using the acracdeVGA ..
thats how i did it...
Title: Re: starting up with AVGA
Post by: ChadTower on December 04, 2004, 04:19:18 pm: Quote from: DYNAGOD on December 04, 2004, 12:06:18 pm
using a normal vieo card can lead to driver/regisrty problems later with the arcade VGA.
find a step by step walkthru for installing windows xp fresh and print it out, then do it blind, with only half the screen showing using the acracdeVGA ..
thats how i did it...

There are no drivers installed at the first reboot point during the install. It's using the same generic default video driver for pretty much every card at that point.
Title: Re: starting up with AVGA
Post by: krick on December 05, 2004, 01:59:20 am: Quote from: DYNAGOD on December 04, 2004, 12:06:18 pm
using a normal vieo card can lead to driver/regisrty problems later with the arcade VGA.
find a step by step walkthru for installing windows xp fresh and print it out, then do it blind, with only half the screen showing using the acracdeVGA ..
thats how i did it...

I installed my ArcadeVGA the way described on the Ultimarc site.

I installed windows with a regular video card connected to a PC monitor.
Went into hardware manager and "uninstalled" my old card.
Shut down, removed the old card.
Plugged in the ArcadeVGA, connected to the arcade monitor.
Booted up and installed ArcadeVGA drivers.

Note that my normal video card was a Nvidia based card.

Using an ATI card *might* be the cause of DYNAGOD's problems
Title: Re: starting up with AVGA
Post by: StephenH on December 05, 2004, 03:33:30 am: You may want to boot in safe mode and install the ArcadeVGA drivers, if windows tries to install the stock ATI Driver (which will not work with AVGA)