No Video after install??

Hello all,

I just bought a SMC 802.11G PCI card for an old computer of mine.
It's an old PII 550MHz. It works fine until I install the PCI card
into a PCI slot. When I do the computer starts up fine, but I don't
get any video. No bios information or anything. By fine, I mean
all of the fans start up and I can hear the hard drive spin up. If I
take the card out, I get video fine. I've tried different PCI slots
too, but the same thing happens every time.

The motherboard's last bios update was in 2001 and I just checked to
see if there was any newer updates and of course there wasn't any.
So, this is my last resort. I'm not sure of anything else I could
try. Does anybody know what could possibly be the problem?

By the way, This is the second card that I've tried. I had a Linksys
802.11G PCI card and it did the exact same thing. So I dont' think
that the card is bad.

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(E-Mail Removed) (tale) wrote in news:329cbf39.0309111839.4036d657
@posting.google.com:

> Hello all,
>
> I just bought a SMC 802.11G PCI card for an old computer of mine.
> It's an old PII 550MHz. It works fine until I install the PCI card
> into a PCI slot. When I do the computer starts up fine, but I don't
> get any video. No bios information or anything. By fine, I mean
> all of the fans start up and I can hear the hard drive spin up. If I
> take the card out, I get video fine. I've tried different PCI slots
> too, but the same thing happens every time.
>
> The motherboard's last bios update was in 2001 and I just checked to
> see if there was any newer updates and of course there wasn't any.
> So, this is my last resort. I'm not sure of anything else I could
> try. Does anybody know what could possibly be the problem?
>
> By the way, This is the second card that I've tried. I had a Linksys
> 802.11G PCI card and it did the exact same thing. So I dont' think
> that the card is bad.
>
> -- tale
>

Just a shot in the dark. but this sounds like an IRQ conflict. What OS
are you using? Does your motherboard allow manual assignment of IRQ's to
specific PCI slots?

If you can, disable in BIOS any devices or ports that you don't need
(example-I've got serial and parallel disabled in BIOS on my comp and
that frees up 2 IRQs, so now my AGP video card gets one to itself). And
then, if you are using an OS that allows, disable those devices in the
device manager.

Tom

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and get the lead out.

I have exactly the same problem as above. Anyone had any luck
resolving the issue.
Linksys PCI card in any PCI slot, a number of bios configurations and
still the pc crashes with probably the irq of the video card (on
board).

I have also taken the card back twice and and tested it on three
machines with no luck.
I am running win2k.



Thomas Davie <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<Xns93F3EF68B9128tleaddavieshawca@24.66.94.15 9>...
> (E-Mail Removed) (tale) wrote in news:329cbf39.0309111839.4036d657
> @posting.google.com:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I just bought a SMC 802.11G PCI card for an old computer of mine.
> > It's an old PII 550MHz. It works fine until I install the PCI card
> > into a PCI slot. When I do the computer starts up fine, but I don't
> > get any video. No bios information or anything. By fine, I mean
> > all of the fans start up and I can hear the hard drive spin up. If I
> > take the card out, I get video fine. I've tried different PCI slots
> > too, but the same thing happens every time.
> >
> > The motherboard's last bios update was in 2001 and I just checked to
> > see if there was any newer updates and of course there wasn't any.
> > So, this is my last resort. I'm not sure of anything else I could
> > try. Does anybody know what could possibly be the problem?
> >
> > By the way, This is the second card that I've tried. I had a Linksys
> > 802.11G PCI card and it did the exact same thing. So I dont' think
> > that the card is bad.
> >
> > -- tale
> >
>
> Just a shot in the dark. but this sounds like an IRQ conflict. What OS
> are you using? Does your motherboard allow manual assignment of IRQ's to
> specific PCI slots?
>
> If you can, disable in BIOS any devices or ports that you don't need
> (example-I've got serial and parallel disabled in BIOS on my comp and
> that frees up 2 IRQs, so now my AGP video card gets one to itself). And
> then, if you are using an OS that allows, disable those devices in the
> device manager.
>
> Tom