basic VGA built in?

[Jim]

I have a 1999 Gateway pentium III,500 mhz, 384 MB RAM, and
the NVIDIA Geforce 256 AGP video card with 32 MB. Is there
basic VGA video display available, (such as in safe mode)
which is built into the Intel motherboard, if I was to
remove the AGP video card and reboot ? I refer of course
to motherboards like mine, that do not have integrated
video on board.

 

[Lorne Smith]

I have a 1999 Gateway pentium III,500 mhz, 384 MB RAM, and
the NVIDIA Geforce 256 AGP video card with 32 MB. Is there
basic VGA video display available, (such as in safe mode)
which is built into the Intel motherboard, if I was to
remove the AGP video card and reboot ? I refer of course
to motherboards like mine, that do not have integrated
video on board.

Not sure what you mean?!? If there's no on-board video controller, then
there's no on-board video controller! Look at the back of your PC and see
if there's another monitor port amongst all the other built-on ports...

On the other hand, if you just mean will you get a display if you install
the video card DRIVERS, then yes, there is a generic VGA display driver than
will be used instead, but on bootup into normal mode, Windows will try to
reinstall the drivers for the AGP card.

Lorne