[KLUG Hardware] SCSI+Video problems.

[Adam Bultman]

Greetings, gentlemen. 

I've wrested with this issue for some time, but now I can dilly-dally no 
longer.

I've a system built on a Gigabyte GA-xxx motherboard.  Currently, it has:

Onboard IDE RAID (unused)
Onboard Serial, parallel ports (unused)
Onboard Four USB ports (two controllers, one enabled, the other disabled)
Onboard sound (used)

AGP: Voodoo3 3000
PCI: Adaptec 29160
PCI: Linksys network card.

I can't disable the IDE RAID, unfortunately, and I only use one normal IDE 
controller.  

Anyway, whenver I try to remove the video card and insert a newer one 
(I.E.  A geforce 2 or 4) it will remove the SCSI card from the BIOS. I've 
tried two different scsi cards now (previous one being a symbios card).  

This is annoying the crap out of me because I've switched my machines 
around, and I now have a 21" monitor on here, and the 3dfx card can only 
do 1024x768, which makes things enormous.  Since I have decent eyes, I 
don't need my Xterms to be 8" wide.

I've tweaked my BIOS. I've changed IRQ settings, I've tried to force cards
to use different IRQs, etc, but to no avail.  Changing the BIOS setttings
seems to do nothing.  I've tried switching the two cards around. I've 
tried adding OTHER cards to see if that does anything.  I don't know what 
else to do besides buy a new motherboard, which seems a bit extreme, as a 
1.5 year old motherboard should be able to use a decent video card.

I'd be willing to entertain any ideas whatsoever to try to get a newer 
video card to work.

Adam

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