On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:13 pm, Gil Weber wrote:
I managed to put my hands on another PCI video card (emphasizing again, that's PCI, and not PCI-e). This one is a Genesis SV+ S3 Virge/DX. It is and older card but it is identified correctly by SuSE 9.3.
Howver, just as with the other PCI video card I cannot access a configuration screen for the video card or my monitor. I get the same error message as I have reported several times: <ups lost card during probing... abort>
Gil
I just remembered that one of my name brand systems with onboard video will allow disabling the onboard video and the BIOS is also set to NOT allow another video card in the system.!.! The BIOS happily shows onboard video disabled and really does disable it; the VGA port doesn't work. Any add-in video card won't work If the onboard video dies you replace the mainboard and there isn't the work-around of using an add-in card until the system is fixed. Proprietary sucks in this case. This eMachine is acting like it doesn't do add-in video cards. That may be by design, it may be a flaw of the BIOS that won't be fixed or it could be a hardware failure on the mainboard. Stan