Do you need a video card? 2

[MIABot]

I have a really nice system built, but i do not have a video card yet. i am waiting upon another $400 before i get the one i would like. is it possible to run a system without a video card (no games of course). but can it run at all?

Thanks in advance,
MIA

 

[RUBiksCUbe]

Well it depends. If the motherboard has onboard video then you can run the computer as much as you want, minus high powered games. But if it dosent have onboard video than you probably cant run the computer at all. It will either beep at you and not start up, or boot up normally and you wont see whats going on.

 

[MIABot]

well, i know that it doesnt have on board video, but for some reason it has a vaga connector on it, i thought you could run it with your System RAm in 16 color mode with 500x400 RAM but im not shure.

 

[cdogg]

If it has a SVGA connector lined up next the keyboard and mouse ports, then the motherboard does in fact have onboard video. Obviously, a connection is needed to get video on your screen. And any connection indicates a video component of some sort.

How about supplying us with your system specs?

~cdogg
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[MIABot]

its an Abit AV-8"3rd eye" mobo (939 socket) i have a 64 bit AMD 3500+ on it with 2 gigs Kingston pro RAM in dual channel setup. a 500 watt X-connect PSU and a compaq 16 inch moniter

 

[cdogg]

As you can see from the features and picture listed here, there isn't an SVGA connection off the motherboard:

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/techspec.php?categories=1&model=201

There is a parallel and serial port, but nothing for video. Therefore, you would need an add-in video card.

~cdogg
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[paparazi]

MIABot
I think the connections you are looking at are: serial and Parallel ports

This motherboard does not have built in graphics capability so unfortunately you will need to get a graphics card of some description.
This could be just a cheap second 2/4meg PCI card which you could pick up for under $10 from your local computer fair.
Martin

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[MIABot]

thank you, i took your advice and boutght a $10 16mb card, for now, once i get the cash im getting a 6800 gt