XPfordummies
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I have a computer with no built in jack for my monitor cable. I have two video cards but i cant get either of them working. How do I get one of the video cards working without being able to see what I am doing?
No picture?
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Trying each one individually and still not seeing any picture sounds like the board is seeing a problem over two bad cards unless the vendor got a batch in. Byy default even if there was onboard and enabled you would still see first post screen in order to get into the bios setup. New board? New cards? Try a different card to see if the board is the problem.
Ramodkk
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Which card of the two were you using?? Why did you remove them? Or is it a new comp? Make sure the card is sitting good in the PCI/PCI-e/AGP slot and connect your monitor to it. Then turn your computer on and it should display the image. Then just install the drivers that came with that video card installed.
Hope that helped!
Hope that helped!
XPfordummies
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Its an old computer and a box of cards that I got at a garage sale. Just wanted to see if I could get it running. Its a Micronics M54Pe dual processor motherboard. One of the cards is a Diamond Multimedia Stealth 64 Video and Im not for sure about the other one.
P.S. Is that Stealth 64 card pretty good? Would it probrably be better than the factory stuff in my computer? Not the one I am trying to build but my own personal computer.
P.S. Is that Stealth 64 card pretty good? Would it probrably be better than the factory stuff in my computer? Not the one I am trying to build but my own personal computer.
That's a good old server case that came out in January of 1995! You can still find drivers and bios updates while being kind of a dinosaur there. Here's one brief description on it.
"Server
The company is featuring several system boards targeted at the server market. The M54Pe, available for shipment in January 1995, can be configured with single or dual Pentium processors -- a critical option for multi-tasking environments. The booth features a dual processor configuration.
The M4Pe, a 486-based server solution, can be configured with a 100 MHz DX4 processor to meet high performance and price requirements for departmental server applications." http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1994_Nov_14/ai_15925779
"Server
The company is featuring several system boards targeted at the server market. The M54Pe, available for shipment in January 1995, can be configured with single or dual Pentium processors -- a critical option for multi-tasking environments. The booth features a dual processor configuration.
The M4Pe, a 486-based server solution, can be configured with a 100 MHz DX4 processor to meet high performance and price requirements for departmental server applications." http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1994_Nov_14/ai_15925779
XPfordummies
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Thanks for the info, but that doesnt solve my problem. Plus I don't know if you read my P.S. or not, but is that a good card.
12yrs. ago it probably was one of the better ones. The name of the card sounded familiar. But your problem there could very well be the slot on the board itself or even finally going on you there. I'm currrently looking at few old beaters here one with an AMD Slot one cpu on the old micro sized board there.