uhh, I recently found an old pentium 3 based motherboard, and wanted to see if it'd boot (I know it used to run windows xp) anyways, I realised that I didn't have the old Harddrive it used to use, and it has no onboard video, so does anyone know how I can boot up with a agp card vga port if i'm booting for the first time w/o a harddrive with an os on it?
2007-09-15 13:20:21 · 6 answers · asked by maxturbo211 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
It should simpley boot to the aftermarket card. Most BIOS will disable the onboard Video when it detect a addon card. You can go to the BIOS and see if there is a choice to "Disable" your onboard video.
2007-09-15 13:26:40 · answer #1 · answered by acklan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just make sure that the AGP card is in, and the HD is hooked up, it will boot to the HD, then give you and error that no OS was found, at least you know that it booted.
You may go into the BIOS and set it to default.
The fact that the hard drive has no OS on it, won't make a difference with the system booting, you just won't get past the command prompt and error.
2007-09-15 13:27:27 · answer #2 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can see if the board works with AGP card only, by looking at the POST. You do not need HD for POST. It will be black screen with white letters. You can go into the CMOS setup too, by hitting ESC or F1 or DEL key during POST.
2007-09-15 13:51:53 · answer #3 · answered by TNguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you do not have on board video, this style of on board video ought to have a VGA port; i've got not seen a DVI replace. whether you run into an on board one after the different in a while, its working unique to the AGP or separate video card (in basic terms one among them is definitely in use at one time)
2016-11-14 13:17:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could use a vga/usb adapter and boot from an external source.
2007-09-15 13:30:08 · answer #5 · answered by engineer_retired 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just install the video card and you should be fine, as long as the mobo can support the vc.
and acklan...he said NO onboard video
2007-09-15 13:26:48 · answer #6 · answered by Norak D 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋