trouble with ArcadeVGA and hantarex polo 25 monitor

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I'm trying to install an ArcadeVGA in a Shuttle MV43V mobo
There is onboard video
I've tried every combination of BIOS settings for primary adapter Onboard/AGP - PCI and ASSIGN PCI IRQ yes/no but when I try to boot with the ArcadeVGA installed I can't get video on my hantarex polo 25 monitor connected to the ArcadeVGA or my PC monitor connected to the onboard video.
No warning beeps either.
Just listening to the hard drive I don't believe it's getting past BIOS boot

The only other BIOS settings I see are for AGP Comp. Driving
You can either set it to AUTO or MANUAL and select the value

Does anyone know if the ArcadeVGA needs a certain AGP Comp. Driving value assigned on this type mobo?
Or anything else I should check?

[Fat_Trucker]

Don't know if it helps at all but I recently purchased an arcade VGA and couldn't get it to work or install the packaged drivers. I installed a set of vanilla catalyst drivers then installed the AVGA drivers over the top and it all suddenly started working.

Not entirely sure about your board but so long as you have disabled your onboard graphics in the bios and set your AGP slot to first init (or whatever it is on your board) then you should be ok.

Try booting into safe mode and killing your onboard graphics drivers first then install your new card and reboot/install drivers etc. In either case your AGP aperture size should be set at around 64mb.

If it won't boot into safe mode with the AVGA in the slot then it may be an issue with the card, either that or you have a specific setting in your bios that turns the AGP slot on and you aren't getting any voltage to it at all. Your motherboard manual should explain which setting accomplishes this if that is the case.

If you have exhausted every option and presuming all your hardware is working properly my money would be on there being a jumper on the board itself that enables the AGP slot.

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I can't even get the bios boot screen when the card is in place on either monitor so it's not a driver issue

here's my mobo manual if anyone wants to take a look
http://ftp.shuttle.com/Manuals/en/mv43v_n/mv43ven.zip

[Fat_Trucker]

Looking at that then if you have the AGP set to 4x, the Aperture at 64Mb and the driving comp set to auto then you should be ok.

Usually AGP slots draw around 5.2 - 5.5 volts if you want to set it manually.

It definitely sounds as if it is something relating to your PC that isn't providing any juice to your AGP slot.

Either that or when you first installed the AVGA if the driving comp voltage was set too high you may have fried the card although this is unlikely if everything was on default settings. The only other option I can think of is that the AGP driver (usually called [insert chipset here].vxd or something) hasn't been installed, check your system driver disk and install it manually if needs be.

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Everything was just set to default settings with AUTO comp drive so I don't see how/why the card should be damaged.

Here's some quotes from the manual for anyone that doesn't want to download the whole thing:

AGP Mode
This item provides the OnBoard VGA mode with three options of 1,2, 4
multiplied frequency.

[dabone]

Alot of newer motherboards are not compatible with the chipsets found on the avga cards.

If you have access to another motherboard with a agp slot, try it.


And whhich version of the avga card do you have?? 1 or 2 vga connectors?


Later,
dabone

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I swapped in another AGP ATI video card and everything booted up fine.
It seems that the Primary Graphics Adapter setting doesn't really matter much because the system booted using the AGP card using either bios setting.

So now it seems that the problem is with the Arcade VGA card and possibly the hantarex polo 25 monitor

The monitor was working fine with my Martial Masters board

The only thing I can think of now is that I used both H and V sync connections
Maybe the POLO needs composite?
But even so, shouldn't I have gotten at least some sort of display on the monitor?

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Turns out it was simply a connectivity issue.
i'd left my test meter at work and was using a non-solder type connector to the POLO monitor
the wires on the cable that came with the ArcadeVGA were just too thin and so the casing wasn't being cut through all of the way on some of the wires when I pushed them in even though they were secure.
I've had the same thing happen on CAT-5 cables at times
Everything seems to be working OK
just some flickering that I hope will be resolved with the ArcadeVGA drivers