Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
You do have a way to test the card: stick it into another computer. Better yet, swap cards between 2 computers. Surely you have a friend who will be willing to pop a box open for this noble purpose. Do not use a computer that has another (e.g. on-board) video card. > 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. And memory. The various h/w controllers don't drink much juice. Given that it is a PII with few peripherals my wild guess is 200W should be OK, but this is just what I said - a wild guess. > 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. One comment that is *not* an answer to your question. Unless you do something *really* graphically intensive (3D games, stuff like that) AGP is an overkill performance-wise. You do not need the bandwidth for normal office work, mpegs, etc. Of course, I don't know where you can get a non-AGP card nowadays, apart from your own attic, that is... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
