I have an (old) 440LX sy-6kl PII board that beeps at boot time when my AGP ATI 128pro is installed, and displays nothing. It is one long beep and 3 shorts one. Googling for these beeps suggests that the mother board notifies about having some issues with the video card. I have no way to test the ATI card, so it could be that it is broken. However the news groups suggest that the 440LX chip set might have power issues with AGP cards. Any comments? The machine has a 200w power supply. Is that too small for the power hogging AGP card? currently the only power consumer is the PII processor since I still haven't installed any HDs. However I do plan to put in there 1 or 2 small SCSI disks. Does the 200w power supply too small? I would like to get suggestions for an AGP video card that should work with the sy-6kl board and have a free software driver. Broad classification of AGP cards that fulfils those 2 requirements would be most useful too. Should I drop the AGP requirement and settle for a PCI card? I do like to take advantage of the AGP slot and get one more general purpose PCI slot.
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