MSI 6168 (Pulsar 510) PCI graphics installation problem

[gtb1964]

I have a Packard Bell Pulsar 510 pentium III 500 (MSI 6168 Bora motherboard), with integrated Voodoo3dfx 8mb AGP graphics. It has 3 free 32-bit PCI slots.
I want to upgrade the graphics, and tried to install a PCI ATI radeon sapphire 7000 32mb graphics card. The monitor initialised, displayed the Packard Bell logo for 30 seconds), and then powered down.
If I boot up using the voodoo onboard graphics, Windows XP locates and installs the radeon with no problems. (it's not usable at this point of course).
The pc will boot properly using an old S3 pci card, and an old ATI pci rage pro card.
There doesn't seem to be anything in the bios that I can alter.
Can anyone tell me why the radeon doesn't work, or recommend a reasonably priced 32/64mb pci card that will work?

 

[ski]

Make sure that the Radeon 7000 is fully inserted.

If that's ok and the system boots ok with another PCI video card, then the Radeon 7000 is either bad or is not compatible with the system.

 

[EddnShoulders]

I had exactly the same issue only the other day. I was testing a Hercules 3D Prophet 9000 pci 64Mb card in my machine to check it worked properly after he had the same problem installing it as you have where the display turns off as soon as the pc leaves the BIOS setup and starts windows.

What I found worked on my machine was to boot up normally without the pci card in place, and then uninstall my usual video adaptor from within windows device manager. After a restart i entered the bios and changed the settings for the display adaptor to pci (you should either find an option to disable the on-board graphics, or to enable "allocate IRQ to PCI VGA").
Leave the bios but then immediately turn off the pc. Then i added the ATI 9000 pci card to the system and plugged the VGA cable into it. A normal bootup into windows now resulted in the display staying on when windows started up, and i went on to install the drivers and so on.

This would be worth a try for you. The only difference in my system is that I don't have on-board graphics, and so I was physically able to remove my normal video card (AGP) to "disable" it. I hope this works for you.