new jumperless mobo

[Nig]

Been to the puterfair this morning. After pratting about with no mobo battery for ages ,and cos I'd got an AMD-2 cpu sat doing nothing I've gone and got a SH socet7 tx-proII mobo.

It looks pretty straigh forward .except.
1 never had dealings with a board with on-board sound and graffix
2 I aint got the risers for them anyhow .

BUT
it's just occured to me that when I boot it up it will probably want to use the graffix adapter on it and not the pci one I'm gonna plug into it
has anyone got any experience with these types of board.
There's no fcc number on it and I'll only find out what make it is when I see the bios number.[ami fd58724 ,if that means owt]

Nig:)

[Ste]

There's an option in the BIOS (not too sure about ami bios) to set which graphics device to use first.... should be an option for PCI, (AGP), or on-board.

[Furby]

In AMI Bios there should be a setting where you can change the graphics aperture - I am about to install as S3 savage pro(PCI) on an AMI Bios with onboard graphics Nig, so maybe we can help each other ;)

There can be complications sometimes depending on the make of the onboard graphic chipset of the mobo - but if you post the make of the chipset I can put links here incase of complications and possible causes.

[Nig]

I shoved tx-pro II into copernic and it came up with a few hits ... one of them led to this

http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142/pcchips/index.html

pretty kewel eh ?

which led to

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M571LMR.html

equally pretty kewel eh ?

So after we've had us dinner it's screwdriver and hammer time .

Nig:)

[onomatopoeia]

I have a PC Chips mobo with integrated everything. found that pluging in a graphics card disables the onboard, no settings to worry about :)

Also found the onboard video only works if there are DIMMs in bank 0. The machine will boot up with DIMMs in other banks provided there is a graphics card in. That wasn't documented anywhere and took me a while to figure out :eek

[Nig]

It don't work

I've put the dimms in row 1 not 2. the downloaded instructions say row 0 and 1.

only put in one hd .graffix card and one strip of dimm

the hd makes all the right sounds , then when the peep and the led on the monitor should go yellow it don't.

I'd forgotten how I had to cut this old 486 case to get the old mobo in this ones worse. and the cables for the reset don't reach.

Nig:)

[Furby]

I have had a single dimm plugged into 1 and onboard graphics worked fine, except programs loaded slow and I did have many windows problems :eek:

Sometimes you so not have to disable onbboard via BIOS but on some machines you do, otherwise you get problems.

You are probably fine Mark because you run a very stable O/S :D :lol unless of course that is the machine you run windoze on...

The machine I mentioned the other day that I am working on had the same problem when he installed a voodoo3dfx and the onboard wasn't diabled via the BIOS, and this was the start of the problems and where I had to step in :eek: (although there are problems too numerous to begin with on that machine :lol)


Sounds like you are going to have to do some meddling there Nig :eek:

I had a similar problem on the machine after he had installed the voodoo - HD making all the right sounds etc (although it uses the old EDO RAM) and couldn't even boot to save mode :eek: I did a diagnostic start up via DOS mode and found one of the culprits is the video driver although there is a hardware problem but at least I can boot to safe mode and work from there :)

[onomatopoeia]

I am running a very stable OS on that PC :), although the particular variant I'm running is called "debian unstable" it still has been "up" without crashing for 42 days :lol

I did get Xwindows working on it although it required a lot of manual configuration (that's "tweaking" and "twiddling" :p:lol:lol) due to the obscure nature of the SiS graphics chipset onthe PC Chips boards :eek:

[Furby]

That is what that particular PC has on it an integrated SIS chipset on it and it is a PITA!!!! :eek:

Wanna come over Mark and help me out :lol