First post, by moistyalf
I seem to have the worst luck with old video cards... Basically my issues started about a year ago now. My retro gaming PC is a pentium II based system with an earlier style of AGP slot. I had been running a AGP TNT2 in it for some time without any issues, but after sitting for some time the system decided to beep incessantly as if there was no video card installed. I tried another TNT2 and a newer geforce card of some sort but it decided it hated all of them despite the cards working fine in a pentium 4 system. So i put it down to a bad slot and put up with a PCI s3 virge until I could acquire another board.
Well a few weeks ago I picked up a similar board with a slightly faster 266 PII in it which ran fine. So i installed my TNT2 into it and it worked ok for a few hours before deciding to do EXACTLY the same thing as the other board on boot, acting as if there was no card installed at all. So I swapped in a working s3 Trio card and it came back to life for another few hours before deciding it didn't like that card either. So now I have two boards which seem to hate AGP cards which worked in other systems previously.
At this point I feel like the tnt2 may be somehow damaging the boards but I really hope this isn't the case and it does work in other systems so i'm out of ideas. And I don't know how much longer I can put up with an s3 virge. Am I doing something stupid? Any advice is appreciated.