3dfx Voodoo Card Re-Install Problems

[IanHowells]

2nd Visit in 2 days to this forum. At some point during The Great Memory Instalation Farce this week I thought changing my BIOS settings to PLUG&PLAY O/S = YES was a good idea and then lost all my periphials & my voodoo card I'd already set up years before.

I finally have everything working but can't get my Voodoo 3 Graphics to be the one my PC uses - it still goes to the graphics card that's part of the motherboard (3D AGP Accelorator) as the main graphics port & now assumes that the voodoo card supports a 2nd screen...

I've tried removing the MONITORS in the Hardware/Drivers list and also the ACCELORTATORS and reinstalled the voodoo drivers but still (even when my monitors plugged into the voodoo card) it goes to the onboard accelortor first (via the voodoo card I get a dos screen stating "IF YOU CAN READ THIS MESSAGE YOUR CARD HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED" and then if I switch the monitor to the other port and log in & then switch back, I can see the desktop but no icons or taskbars etc.

Finally, in case this helps, the SETTINGS tab in the DISPLAY properties shows a "1" Monitor (Gateway Monitor on 3D AGP Accelorator) and a "2" Monitor (Gateway Monitor on 3dfx Voodoo 3) and I cant seem to tell the PC to switch which is 1 and which is 2.

...in the olden days when it used to work, the very first screen I used to see when turning the PC on was the Voodoo3 initialisation dos screen, that doesn't seem to happen anymore...

That's everything I know.
Your help is v.much appreciated

Thanks, Ian

 

[Snakeyeskm]

Is your onboard video disabled in your Bios ?

 

[IanHowells]

...nope - pretty sure it's not.

I think I may have stubled across the solution: uncheck the 'Automatically detect plug&play monitors' in the adapter's hardware properties...? I'll try it anyway!

 

[Snakeyeskm]

If I read your response right - You should disable the onboard video in your bios.

 

[seenitall]

Most Bios's have a setting to allow you to select which video adapter is the primary one. Usually allows you to select between PCI/AGP or somesuch. Since I have a voodoo 3 and my mobo has a builtin AGP, mine is set to PCI which tells the bios to assume that the one it finds on the PCI bus is the primary adapter.

Hope this helps.