I've got an LX and If i remember correctly the video
card (I've used matrox MII and voodoo3) absolutely has
to be in one of the 64-bit(the bottom two long) PCI
slots for video to work( I think this only matters
when the PCI bus is full)
HTH
Greg Meno
PS. correct me if I'm wrong
--- Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org> wrote:
>
> If any card you put in there causes this, then I'd
> say you've got a bad
> slot. Historically I can't think of any problems
> with the last slot in
> LXs.
>
> --rdp
>
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Markus Klappenbach wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > i have a problem with my 164LX board. i try to
> install a pci card in the
> > last pci slot (DEC NIC 21140 which works fine in
> any other slot). the
> > configuration is as follows: slot0; Matrox
> Millenium, slot1; HBA Symbios
> > 8751SP, slot2; WintTV PCI and slot3;?. if i
> install any card in any
> > combination in the last slot the system does not
> boot with SRM-5.8-1 (no
> > VGA Signal) and with AlphaBios-5.70 the system
> boots but WINNT4 crashes
> > with NMI: Parity error. if i remove the card from
> slot3 the SRM Console
> > boots and i am able to boot Redhat-7.0
> > the board is powered with an enermax 335W
> power-supply.
> >
> > thanks for all suggestions
> >
> > Greetings from Germany
> > Markus
>
> --
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