Shoutbox

Alright, I'm sure some of yall have read in some of my past video card threads(months ago), that I am having trouble.  Right now I am using an Nvidia Geforce MX4 4000, My mobo has an onchip video card, which is an S3Prosavage 8A26.  Right now the S3 video card is disabled.  Now when I go to Device manager and try to enable it, my system will just restart.  I really want to have duel monitering again, but I am having trouble,  I did take consideration of what Adeptus told me, to just get like an 8mb PCI video card, but i really dont have anymore slots.  But in the mean time Can anyone help me in getting the S3 gpu to Stay enabled and work?  Thanks.


EDIT: I forgot to mention that The duel Monitering will work if im in any operating system but WinXP sp2.

EDIT2:  I was reading windows' troubleshooter for this type of thing and it said i needed to put the PCI card in PCI slot one so i did so, and it said i needed to make it to where the built in video card is the primary GPU and the PCI as the secondary.  It said you do it in the BIOS but i dont know what the option is called exactly.  Any help? thanks.

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Originally posted by [MR
]I forgot to mention that The duel Monitering will work if im in any operating system but WinXP sp2.

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Elaborate.  Does that mean you have been able to successfully use the onboard video together with your graphics card under other (which?) operating systems? Did it work with XP before SP2?

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Originally posted by [MR
]it said i needed to make it to where the built in video card is the primary GPU and the PCI as the secondary.  It said you do it in the BIOS but i dont know what the option is called exactly.

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It is usually called something like "Init display first".  No matter what words they used, it is likely to be the only option where the two choices are "AGP" and "PCI".  With Award BIOS, it is usually found in the "PCI/PnP Settings" section.

You might have better success if you remove the GeForce and get Windows to work with the onboard video alone first.  The latest drivers for it can be found here and that might help, too.

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Originally posted by Adeptus
With Award BIOS, it is usually found in the "PCI/PnP Settings" section.

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ya that is one of the menu choices.  What do i choose in the submenu?

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Originally posted by [MR
]What do i choose in the submenu?

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Higlighted in my original response.

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Originally posted by Adeptus

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Originally posted by [MR
]What do i choose in the submenu?

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Higlighted in my original response.

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Oh, alright I will check.  If it is not there, does that mean it is completely unsupported?

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Here is what is in the PnP/PCI Menu.


     PnP OS installed                      No
     Reset Configuration Data        Disabled
     Resources Conrolled by           Auto (ESCD)
X   IRQ Resources                         Press Enter         (<This was Greyed out)
X   DMA Resources                        Press Enter         (<This was Greyed Out)

PCI/VGA palette Snoop                Enabled
Assign IRQ for VGA                       Enabled
Assign IRQ for USB                       Enabled

Look in other sections.  It's probably somewhere there.

Unfortunately, motherboard vendors are able to customize how the sections are organized.

I Switched the Init display from PCI to APG And all works prefect!  thanks