Temp video card in new mobo?

[Evenkeel]

Well, in starting my first home-built system, I made my first bonehead mistake: In the first round of parts (case, mobo, CPU, PSU) I didn't also order a video board (That's coming next week w/the HDs and DVD drive). Consequently, when I get the mobo and CPU into the case, I won't be able to do a bench-test POST to make sure the mobo, CPU, and memory are working okay.

I have an old Pentium Pro system hanging around, w/an old PCI video card. Can I put this old card temporarily into one of the 925XCV's PCI slots, and have it actually give me video enough for a POST? Or will this mobo only work w/a card in the PCI-Express x16 slot?

Thanks.

 

[joelslaw]

good question. I'm not sure, but there's no harm in trying! Let us know what happens! congrats on your first build, and welcome to the forums

 

[mrscintilla]

Of course, it will work. Why are you afraid of putting it in?

 

[joelslaw]

calm down! he's a n00b. everyones gotta ask questions, or else they'll never learn.

 

[Evenkeel]

Originally posted by: mrscintilla
Of course, it will work. Why are you afraid of putting it in?

Not afraid, just didn't know if this mobo would accept a video card in any other slot other than the x16 PCI-Express. As I said, I'm a noob, and would rather not hose up anything right out of the gate. ;-)

 

[joelslaw]

so, moving on: did it work?

 

[Evenkeel]

Originally posted by: joelslaw
so, moving on: did it work?

Yes! My first POST was successful. And it was amusing to see the video card's BIOS listing a whole 4 MB of VRAM.

 

[joelslaw]

Originally posted by: Evenkeel
And it was amusing to see the video card's BIOS listing a whole 4 MB of VRAM.

he he he. Ahhh, the good old days! well congrats, hope everything goes well for ya!