Installing Voodoo3 in Compaq Presario 7599

[JohnnyWalkerBlack]

I have a compaq presario 7599, and am trying to install a voodoo 3 2000
pci in the system. I can install the voodoo in one of the pci slots,
and i get video from it with the monitor plugged into the voodoo.
Windows 98SE detected it alright and I installed the 1.07.00 hql
drivers, and all seemed to be alright. After rebooting, it came up and
said that the voodoo conflicted with a bunch of devices, including the
acpi devices and the keyboard, etc. It seemed like the 810 chipset
video had deactivated itself, because when i plugged the monitor into it
the monitor did not work. I tried moving the voodoo into different
slots, and it still conflicted with the same devices. The onboard video
still seems to be active, because I tried deleting the device and
windows found it again. Is there any way to deactivate the onboard 810
video? Or is there some other problem with using the voodoo 3 with a
compaq 7599?

Any help with this would be appreciated.

TIA,
Kevin

 

[Mark0999]

You should try to get rid of the remnents of the Intel video drivers. Put the V3 in the 1st PCI slot.

 

[MajesticMoose]

^bump^

m00se

 

[yellowperil]

Did you try going into the BIOS and making sure the onboard video was set to secondary? Some of those Compaq machines are strange, you might have to change a jumper setting on your mobo to physically disable the onboard video.

 

[silentkevin]

I am the one who originally posted the question, just logging on from my own computer instead of the one I was working on for a friend.

It looks like the onboard was set to secondary, it showed up as the non-primary in the vga config, and was not assigned an irq.

As for the the earlier response, how exactly would I go about getting rid of the onboard drivers? Should I just do a reformat of the os with the voodoo in there, or is there a little easier way? Reformatting is no problem, I've done it once today, would only take about a half hour.

 

[silentkevin]

Also, if that doesn't seem like the onboard is disabled enough in the BIOS, does anyone know of the jumper I could switch to disable it, or where I can find some docs on the mainboard? I looked on compaq's site, but they don't exactly cater to people who actually know what a computer looks like on the inside (mainly because anyone who knows anything about computers would never buy a compaq).

 

[yellowperil]

The Voodoo cards are usually pretty good about working around onboard video. I think there *might* be a jumper labled VGA_DIS or something to that effect that some pre-built computers have, for disabling it.