problem with my geforce4 mx420 pci

[ligtu2]

i just bought a visiontek geforce4 mx420 64mb pci video card w/tv-out but i can not get to work on 599lmr motherboard

can anyone help me

[GrandDad]

i just bought a visiontek geforce4 mx420 64mb pci video card w/tv-out but i can not get to work on 599lmr motherboard

can anyone help me

You have to disable the "on board" graphics card in BIOS .

[ligtu2]

You have to disable the "on board" graphics card in BIOS .

this what my motherboard said
it is not necessary to disable the onboard video on the MB.
Once you installed the video card the onboard video will disable automatic if the video card is compatible with the MB

i flash the bios got the newes bios update for my motherboard

[GrandDad]

this what my motherboard said
it is not necessary to disable the onboard video on the MB.
Once you installed the video card the onboard video will disable automatic if the video card is compatible with the MB

i flash the bios got the newes bios update for my motherboard

The 810L I had you still had to disable on-board to get it to work .

[ligtu2]

The 810L I had you still had to disable on-board to get it to work .

how do i disable on-board video card

[GrandDad]

how do i disable on-board video card

When you first start up the PC it should say somewhere
'To enter Set-up hit Delete' or other key ,
you may have to restart a few times and keep hiting that key until you get into BIOS .
Then look for this Tab or page ;

PCI / Plug and Play Setup Page
This page sets some of the parameters for devices installed on the system PCI bus, and devices that use the system plug and play capability.



Plug and Play Aware O/S Enable this item if you are using an O/S that supports Plug and Play such as Windows 95 or 98.
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Primary Graphics Adapter Use this item to define if your primary graphics adapter is installed in a PCI slot or on an AGP bus.
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PCI VGA Palette Snoop When this item is enabled, multiple VGA devices operating on different buses can handle data from the CPU on each set of palette registers on every video device.
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I don't know if you'll have more than 2 choices , if only 2 = then the one thats highlighted or selected ,then click the other .
if 3 , try 1 of the other 2=(PCI if available)

and then at bottom of page (or somewhere) select like F-10 or ESC to exit and save , and select Yes when asked .

[ligtu2]

When you first start up the PC it should say somewhere
'To enter Set-up hit Delete' or other key ,
you may have to restart a few times and keep hiting that key until you get into BIOS .
Then look for this Tab or page ;

PCI / Plug and Play Setup Page
This page sets some of the parameters for devices installed on the system PCI bus, and devices that use the system plug and play capability.



Plug and Play Aware O/S Enable this item if you are using an O/S that supports Plug and Play such as Windows 95 or 98.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Graphics Adapter Use this item to define if your primary graphics adapter is installed in a PCI slot or on an AGP bus.
-------------------------------------------------------------
PCI VGA Palette Snoop When this item is enabled, multiple VGA devices operating on different buses can handle data from the CPU on each set of palette registers on every video device.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't know if you'll have more than 2 choices , if only 2 = then the one thats highlighted or selected ,then click the other .
if 3 , try 1 of the other 2=(PCI if available)

and then at bottom of page (or somewhere) select like F-10 or ESC to exit and save , and select Yes when asked .

i did all that already and it did not work

[NooNoo]

What pci slot do you have this in?

[ligtu2]

What pci slot do you have this in?

i try it both pci slot and when i put the video card in i got no video from the geforce4 mx420 pci video card and onboard video and i just use the onboard video because when they are both in no video

[NooNoo]

ligtu, are you saying that your onboard video does not work?

[Zerotech]

The PC Chips 599LMR is a socket-7 Pentium class board. The PCI slots are most likely rev 2.0; a 64MB video card requires a rev 2.1 slot which were in relatively few socket-7 boards. I doubt that motherboard could handle any more than 32MB of RAM on a video card (all those little chips pull power!).

I've had similar problems putting together various refurb's from other people's old cast-offs.

[/U]Edit:[U] ligtu2 appears to be saying that neither the PCI video nor the onboard work when the PCI card is plugged in, but the onboard video works when the PCI card is removed. Which is why I made the statement above.

[ligtu2]

The PC Chips 599LMR is a socket-7 Pentium class board. The PCI slots are most likely rev 2.0; a 64MB video card requires a rev 2.1 slot which were in relatively few socket-7 boards. I doubt that motherboard could handle any more than 32MB of RAM on a video card (all those little chips pull power!).

I've had similar problems putting together various refurb's from other people's old cast-offs.

[/U]Edit:[U] ligtu2 appears to be saying that neither the PCI video nor the onboard work when the PCI card is plugged in, but the onboard video works when the PCI card is removed. Which is why I made the statement above.

that is right

[ligtu2]

ligtu, are you saying that your onboard video does not work?

no i test and it don't get no video from both when i put the pci video card in and i no it isn't the video card i sent back and they said it work fined and when try a 4mb pci card it works fined in my computer it says in my bios it says my motherboard will support up to 256mb video card

[Zerotech]

The motherboard will support a 256MB video card ?
Or is it 256MB of shared RAM ?

A third possibility being that the motherboard itself supports 256MB of system RAM maximum. There were no 256MB video cards being made when that motherboard was new, so I find it doubtful that the spec would be supported.

I stand by my initial assessment of 32MB video RAM maximum on a PCI card in that motherboard.

[NooNoo]

Zerotech, I agree. This is way too old to support 2.1