Hi Keezel,

When you say "the old one" are you saying that you already have a replacement (that works) for the onboard video chipset. If so what does it plug into, a short brown slot, or one of the longer (white) PCI slots?

You do realise that Compaq were taken over by HP, so support is not going to be more than marginal. Anyways, the big boys don't like it when you change components and operating systems. And they will be as interested in a dual boot into Windows and *nix as Saddam Hussein is in human rights.

Is this an old ex-corporate machine, by the way? It may have a custom BIOS.............anyway, the big manufacturers mess with the BIOS to cut their support costs. The standard BIOS access for Compaq is F10, so there is something weird about your machine for a start. That could be this dual boot manager?

It's a Compaq Presario with an Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz processor.
Well that machine should certainly have an AGP slot IMHO, it is relatively modern. Even DELL PIIIs have AGP slots That's the short brown one, usually with a locking mechanism at one end.

I would suggest changing the BIOS setting to "onboard/VGA" and see what happens. Try it with the monitor attached to the new video card.............I have an old Digital Venturis that I put a PCI video card into.........it will use that or the onboard one, depending on which outlet I attach it to on bootup.

just a few thoughts