J. Radon
Experienced Member
I wanted to try and get a 3d graphics accelerator card for my win98 machine, as well as to see if I could get DVI video output.
I got an ATi Radeon 7000 PCI card on ebay (specific model is R7000PCI revision 1.1 as listed on the mask, or R7000PCI-B3 as listed on the info sticker on the back).
My motherboard is an Amptron PM-8600-A (revision 2.5), and is using Award bios v4.51pg.
Upon installing card, computer is unable to post to bios.
This is the trouble shooting I've tried so far:
-remove any unnecessary cards so that it's just video, ram, and power on the motherboard
-verify that monitor and VGA cable are working correctly
-test with both just the radeon card installed and with both the radeon card and my primary 2d VGA card (Trident TGUI9680-1) as it was my impression that with systems of this era you still need a 2d video card to run a 3d video card, but that the radeon might also have 2d graphics (???)
Unfortunately I don't have a second board to test with to verify that the card works at all.
My system posts to bios just fine when I revert to my trident card, but when I install the radeon card, either paired or solo, it won't post to bios.
The post code beeps are inconsistent, sometimes it throws out a 1 long, 2 short beep pattern (video error), or it doesn't beep at all (no error code, but also no single beep confirmation that the self test passed).
Is my bios just too old or incompatible with the radeon card? (I know it has win98 drivers, but this is a weird board to be fair.)
Is there a way to verify that the card isn't simply dead, like maybe some test pads I can try to test with a multi meter when it's plugged in?
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
I got an ATi Radeon 7000 PCI card on ebay (specific model is R7000PCI revision 1.1 as listed on the mask, or R7000PCI-B3 as listed on the info sticker on the back).
My motherboard is an Amptron PM-8600-A (revision 2.5), and is using Award bios v4.51pg.
Upon installing card, computer is unable to post to bios.
This is the trouble shooting I've tried so far:
-remove any unnecessary cards so that it's just video, ram, and power on the motherboard
-verify that monitor and VGA cable are working correctly
-test with both just the radeon card installed and with both the radeon card and my primary 2d VGA card (Trident TGUI9680-1) as it was my impression that with systems of this era you still need a 2d video card to run a 3d video card, but that the radeon might also have 2d graphics (???)
-on the dual card setup I tried swapping between which cards vga port I used, but it made no difference
Upon getting the card I cleaned it, visually inspected the caps, and replaced the thermal paste; visually the card looks okay, but obviously that still leaves a lot unknown.
Unfortunately I don't have a second board to test with to verify that the card works at all.
My system posts to bios just fine when I revert to my trident card, but when I install the radeon card, either paired or solo, it won't post to bios.
The post code beeps are inconsistent, sometimes it throws out a 1 long, 2 short beep pattern (video error), or it doesn't beep at all (no error code, but also no single beep confirmation that the self test passed).
Is my bios just too old or incompatible with the radeon card? (I know it has win98 drivers, but this is a weird board to be fair.)
Is there a way to verify that the card isn't simply dead, like maybe some test pads I can try to test with a multi meter when it's plugged in?
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.