starting up with AVGA

[JCKnife]

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?

[ChadTower]

Guess you need to try it and find out! 

(I actually don't know the answer yet)

[JCKnife]

I found a $17 PCI video card I can use for system set-up. Maybe that's the best answer.

[ChadTower]

In either case, could someone answer his question?  I'd like to know, I'm about to do this myself.

[Troz]

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.

[ChadTower]

Right... so the best approach is to use a regular video card up until the first reboot, then switch.  Got it.

[DYNAGOD]

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...

[ChadTower]

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.

[krick]

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

[StephenH]

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)