So I have an IBM Aptiva 2176 which I currently have Windows 98se installed on. I wanted to install a Rendition Verite card in one of the two PCI slots to replace the built-in ATI Rage graphics but no luck. When the card is installed in the lower PCI slot I get a green light on my monitor but the screen stays black, no beeps. When I install the card in the upper PCI slot I get the IBM POST image and a ram count though there are two little glitch lines that appear, always in the same spot. when It goes to boot Windows after the ram count I just get a white screen with black lines. At first I figured the Rendition Verite card had bad ram or something but when I installed it in a socket 423 P4 board I have it worked flawlessly. I also removed all other cards from the Aptive except the video card. Also tried installing an ATI Mach64 PCI card in the same PCI slot and it worked fine.

I've tried updating the Aptiva to the latest BIOS version as well as disabling bus mastering for the PCI slots and disabling caching the video memory but I get the same result. also tried cleaning the connectors, no effect.

At this point I think I'm just curious why the Aptiva would have this kind of compatibility issue with the Verite card.