[plug] video card swap

[Denis Brown]

Hello, John.

"IBM PC" as in "genuine IBM"?  If so it might be a bios issue.  If you
haven't done so visit www.ibm.com, select Support and work your way
through the text boxes denoting the style, model, type...  You'll
eventually get to a selection which offers among other things the
downloadable files.  BIOS should be among them.

Before you reflash the BIOS however, make a note of what is currently
installed -- press F1 during bootup and in amongst the list of options
you'll find reference to the flash level.   This is handy in case you need
to retreat to that version, if the replacement does Nasty Things
(tm).   In something over 100 genuine IBM's, most of which have had
flashable bioses, only one, a PC340, gave me grief.  Flashing the bios to
the latest revision made the video display unstable :-(  The original
version was available on IBM's bbs, along with all of its brothers and
sisters.  I could wrangle out the details for that site if you needed it.

Finally, you say it only has ONE PCI slot?  Wierd; the minimum I've seen
is three in a desktop machine.  If genuine IBM, what model/type is it --
just out of interest is all :-)

Cheers and HTH,
Denis