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tikki · Mar 25, 2003, 01:32 PM

Greetings

I am trying to get a couple of old 8600's to boot, but I am not getting any video whatsoever. Everything sounds like it has booted fine on them, but no matter how many monitors I try, the won't give me a video output.

I don't really think the video card can go bad on 2 computers. My luck really can't be that bad.

Any ideas on what to try to fix it?

guilliamo · Mar 25, 2003, 01:47 PM

These machines have video on the motherboard. There should be either 2 or 4 1MB VRAM DIMMS in the 4 DIMM slots.
Often, used machines have been stripped of VRAM, so check to be sure you have VRAM.

Depending on how you are going to use the machines, a modern PCI video card (e.g. Raseon 7000) is either a good or necessary upgrade.

tikki · Mar 25, 2003, 01:53 PM

I told it to f' off, and went to the restroom, and when I came back it had a display. Very weird.

Thanks for the help.