Help! I can't get the onboard video to work on a CUSL2

[jiffylube1024]

I have an ASUS CUSL2 (with onboard video; no onboard sound) that I've had for a couple of years. It's definately the most stable motherboard I've ever seen. I run it fine all day with an original Radeon DDR AGP card, however I cannot get the onboard video to work for the life of me! I have the latest BIOS (1009 from ASUS, it's the correct one for the CUSL2 and not the video-less CUSL2-C) and in the BIOS there should be an option under the "Advanced" menu for "Onboard VGA" and several others for the CAS and RAS latency of the onboard video's memory, however they are strangely missing. I look in the manual and these options are in whatever BIOS they were using when they made the manual (I've long since updated mine and lost the original) however I'm not sure if these options are even necesary.

What's not in the manual is under the "VGA BIOS Sequence" the options are PCI/AGP/On-Board ; the manual has only PCI/AGP. However, when I set it to "On-Board" I cannot get the machine to boot (or show anything on the monitor) using either onboard video or the AGP card. An annoying CMOS clear is necessary to get the machine working again with the AGP card.

Has anyone experienced this problem before with a CUSL2 or know a fix for it? I couldn't get the onboard video working using either the 1006a or 1009 BIOS. Any help would be appreciated!

 

[mastertech01]

Are you trying to use onboard while the AGP slot has a card inserted? If so try removing the AGP card. Also try just using the AGP selection in bios rather than the Onboard selection if you have already tried the first suggestion. Last I would try just applying bios default settings with the AGP card in, shut down, remove the AGP card, then restart with the AGP out of the mobo. Its been a long while since I had the CUSL2, but the bios back then would be different anyway from what you have. I was thinking that if you have an AGP card inserted it would over ride the onboard controller. Thats about all I can think of for now.

 

[AndyHui]

Mastertech01 is correct. You cannot have an AGP card sitting in the slot, and use the onboard i752 video at the same time.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Alright thanks guys! That was my suspicion, but I was just feeling too lazy to take out the AGP card (and that's really lazy because the case was open and everything!). I'll try that out once I get back home (I'm at school now).