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To: Dave Bissett who wrote (3027)	10/16/1998 10:27:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

This default setup really amazes me because if you only have an AGP monitor card you're not going to get a picture when you first bootup the system, and hence there wouldn't be a way to get into the BIOS to change this setting. Talk about stuck! I can see how that would be a problem! The inverse would also be true. If the default were AGP and you only had a PCI video card you would be stuck too. Is there a warning in the manual? not that it would do much good. One would think that they would use a mobo jumper for an AGP/PCI switch at least for the install and then make a provision to switch in the bios for later changes. I hope everyone is paying attention to this issue as it could be a real headache for someone. Thanks for the info. Zeuspaul

To: Dave Bissett who wrote (3027)	10/16/1998 10:35:00 PM
From: Len	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Dave, I think you missed something. If you only had an AGP card, it would still boot up, since, even if it is set in the bios to look for a PCI video card first, it will just go on to the AGP bus, once a PCI card isn't found. (How's that for a way too long sentence? My grammatical skills deteriorate after a very tiring day)<g> It will then find the AGP card, and voila, you will see an image on the screen. (This assumes you begin with one card installed, which is the preferred way, anyway, just so that what you experienced won't happen. There are various stages of boot up, and the first, text based stage, only needs one card/monitor to boot with. You just can't place both cards in the slots, and then only hook one of the monitors up like that. Since the BIOS "found" that first PCI card, that's the one it wanted to boot with, by default, and you didn't have a monitor hooked up to it. Good information for the future, should you mess around in there again.<g> Len