First post, by KingDavid73
I've been working on putting together a Windows 98 gaming computer for a while. I currently am running a slot 1 Pentium 3 450. W98 SE up and running. Have games installed, and using the mobo's built in ATI Rage 8mb. It works fine enough for software rendering and some light 3D accelerated stuff, but I've wanted to add a real GPU. I've tried several GPUs and I can't get any of them to do anything. If I have a GPU installed, I get no video output. If I have vga cables plugged into both the mobo and GPU, the internal GPU works fine. I've tried both AGP and PCI slot GPUs and I've tried two different motherboards. Do I have to like force the system to use the GPU or something? No combination of parts has ever once had any video output if I have the VGA cable plugged into any GPU. Just wondering if I'm skipping a simple step. I've tried installing drivers for a couple of the cards before plugging them in, but that didn't do anything. I get no display even at post.