Robert Hyatt writes:
>
> An interesting question: A prof in the math department just bought one of these
> guys based on our good experience with the dell quad xeons. however, as is
> usually the case, he added a new wrinkle to the equation. He also bought a
> Voodoo3 3000 PCI video card. With this card plugged into pci slot 1, the
> machine starts to boot, but hangs. It would appear that there is some sort
> of conflict between the onboard video and this card, but I don't see any way
> to disable the on-board video card.
>
> has anyone successfully gotten a SMP box to boot with an add-in PCI video
> card on top of the normal video?? Or does anyone have a suggestion to try
> to get him up and running in the world of SMP?
I got the Dell PowerEdge 6300 running with the Matrox Millenium G200
SD. This card is the PCI version of the Matrox Millenium G200
(AGP). However, I did not change anything to make it works. However,
the behavior of the bios pci scan routine can be changed at the
bios level. I mean slots can be scanned from higher slots to lower
slots and vice-versa. Maybe this bios feature can help you to get the
add-in card to life ?
Hope this helps,
Claude,
>
> Bob
>
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