Here is the list of video cards that don't show a video signal in my motherboard:

1PCI  Dell 09629U   P0002            Nvidia TNT		
2AGP  VisionTek     NV996            Nvidia TNT2 M64
3AGP  Compaq 179997 P0016            Nvidia TNT2
4AGP  Dell 0G0170   P118             Nvidia Geforce FX5200
5PCI  GeCube        GC-R9250LPCI-C3  ATi Radeon 9250
6PCI  VisionTek     X1550 V/D/VO	    ATi Radeon x1550

The computer boots with these cards, there's just no video signal.

Just about finished with the benchmarking.

I thought I'd try out the fastest card that works with the motherboard to see how well it performs. I have a FireGL 9700 X1-128 and a busted up Radeon 9800Pro with a missing inductor and a broken fan.

I got the FireGL 9700 X1-128 running in Windows 98 using catalyst 6.2 with the 9700pro driver. Everything runs fin in dos windows except for 3dmark. 3dmark99 gives me about a dozen of the tiny arrow check boxes that the catalyst control center uses as bullet points and then locks. 3dmark2000 goes black for 5 seconds and then returns to the windows desktop. Hmmmm. Is it because of the driver? The driver with the FireGl card? The driver with the FireGl card and 3dnow and this bios? I upgraded to DirectX9c. No luck.

So I put a new inductor on the 9800pro and rigged a fan.

It looked great in a 2d desktop. The Text mode on the other hand ....

I tried 3dmark and got the same failures as I did with FireGL 9700 X1-128. Tried some quake 2 GL and it was running pretty well for about a minute before it had a burst of VGA garbage before going black. Looks like the 9800 pro needs some more recovery time.

I thought about trying the omega drivers with the 9700. For a second. And then I remembered why I hated rage cards back in the day.

But on the plus side, I was finally able to get ATTO benchmark to run on the innodisk CF. It only does UDMA 4 with the promise controller.