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More info?)
In article <Yazge.33660$B82.970577@news20.bellglobal.com>, P2B
<p2b@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> no-spam@nowhere.com wrote:
> > I got hold of a really cheap PC (35 euro's) with a 17" monitor,
> > keyboard, 20GB HD and 192MB RAM. It's got an old P2B-N motherboard and
> > now I'm looking for a Gfx card. I asked someone in a computer shop
> > since they had an ATI Radeo 9250 PCI card if this would work and the
> > answer was "no". Is he right ? What is the max I can put into this
> > motherboard ? There doesn't seem to be an AGP slot.
>
> IMHO he's probably wrong, but the P2B-N is such a rare beast you'll have
> difficulty getting accurate information on your upgrade options.
>
> FWIW an ATI Radeon 7000 64MB DDR is the 'max' PCI graphics card I've
> used in a P2B-series board.
>
> I've been looking for a P2B-N for my collection for some time without
> success. If someone would like to donate one, I'll have it running a
> Tualatin processor in short order, and the upgrade possibilities will be
> fully documented on my site
>
> P2B
>
>
http://tipperlinne.com/p2bmod
According to the manual, that motherboard has an onboard video
chip. That should be sufficient to drive the monitor. The biggest
question would be the qualities of the BIOS, and whether the BIOS
could actually handle the declaraton information a modern video
card offers. I don't see an option in the BIOS to enable or
disable build-in video, so it might have to be disabled via
Device Manager in Windows.
I think I would try to get the motherboard operating using
the built-in video first, and then decide whether buying a
bunch of hardware for it makes any sense at all. A riser
board would be needed, to gain access to the PCI bus.
The riser board could be tested with a cheap LAN card, to
see whether the PCI bus is working or not.
Paul