Hello all,

My mother board recently decided to give up the ghost, i replcaed it with a spare that i had lying around (exactly the same part) but when i connected my monitor the display was very poor, the colours did not show right and it looked poo. I thought that it was the AGP grpahics card SLOT that may be at fault as i had tried 3 differenct AGP card in and it all did the same. So i bought an old 3dfx voodoo 2 graphics card off ebay for a few quid. It arrived yesterday, so i installed it, after downloading an up to date xp driver, removed the old agp card and connected the monitor to the new output on the back of the graphics card. Nothing at all. Moved the monitor cable back over to the standard port and i got the same dispaly as before (rubish colour, keeps going off etc). Now if i wiggle the connector about on the old output then i can keep the display working, all be it a very poor display. But i can not get the monitor to work when connecting it to the new voodoo 2 card.

Can any one please help? I have treid to change the setting in bios when booting up to show that the pci card is the primary. I have removed the old drivers from the system but still nothing - only get a display when the monitor is connected to the standard output on the mother board

I am going to put the system back to as it was, and START from scrathc. So could someone please advise what to do. Computer will have a standard rubish agp card installed with the monitor plugged into the standard output on the motherboard. I want to install the voodoo2 edfx card and run the monitor by connecting it directly to the card.

Please help if you can. It must be something stupiod that I have DEON cause the card obvioulsy works as i am getting a display, just not when i connect the monitor to the card.This might be a stupid question but "is that a plug & play monitor" ?I'm not to sure but i think soI know [highlight]GX1-Man [/highlight]and or [highlight]Calum[/highlight] will get your an educated guess/ answer here,
my gut tells me it's PROBABLY the other mobo you put in there. I'm not much help, sorry*
  ( seems like you've done what you could at this point*)
So it works perfectly fine with the onboard graphics? WHat motherboard is this? It was IDENTICAL to the first? What killed the original? What symptoms? What about some history on the PSU and other components?Hi,
Yes it works fine with the old mother board, and yes both boards are the same. I basically bukt the pc from lots of old bits that i took from my office when they re located.
When the board went, it just stopped booting up, it would try to load and jjust freeze straight away.
I chaged the baord and now i get the display problems. I have since been advised that the voodoo 2 card does not run normal desktop/display stuff - this would be done through the standard/agp card?

I am not to sure what board it is off the top of my head, its an older hp one (if i remember correctly) I only have a 733 processor in there as i only really use the pc to surf the NET and download films. 512 sd ram
I have also tried the card in a diff pcio slot and still get the same