I have a friend's son that wants to install a new Voodoo3 3000 PCI 16MB video card on their computer.
Her current system is a K6-II 333, 128 mgs ram, Windows 98SE, with a Pine super-7 motherboard that has the Via Apollo Super MVP4 chipset with onboard audio/modem/video. The onboard modem has been disabled in the BIOS and she's using a PCI modem.
The instructions say to change the video adapter to standard VGA first and then remove all drivers related to the original card or disable that device in the Device Manager.
I looked in the motherboard's manual and there is no jumper on the motherboard to disable the onboard video.

In the BIOS there is supposed to be an option:
Onchip AGP enabled/disabled.

And another option:
Init Display first (that allows you to slect whether PCI Slot or AGP device will be initialized first for display) PCI slot/AGP.

In the BIOS, the "onchip video" option is not there. This is the motherboard that the instruction manual is for and all of the other settings are there exactly like they are supposed to be, but that setting is just not there.
Has anyone ever run into this problem?
I couldn't even try to disable the onboard video in the Device Manager in Windows 98 SE as there is only a box for "exists in all profiles".
I reset the CMOS, but that didn't help.
Again, it's a super7 Pine Group motherboard PT-VIP43-17; with VIA APOLLO Super MVP4 chipset; audio/video on board. It has an Award 4.51pg BIOS.
The support website for Pine Group offers some BIOS updates but apparently there is not one for this board. Unfortunately, they don't respond to emails.I was hoping if I flashed the BIOS it would bring the option "back" (I guess it was there at some time?).

Thanks for any information, Big D

The settings you need to charge are in the system properties menu.
Right click on the desktop and scroll down to properties.

Then settings and then Advanced,
Under that menu select the Adapter / Video card tab.
Then change the selected video card to standard VGA.

Depending on the Card that is installed and the drivers for that, you should remove / uninstall the drivers for that card if possible


If the M/B and or Bios do not have a jumper or cmos disable select for the on board chip.
Then it's possible it's a pure PnP system.
When you shut down after making the changes above .
You should install the new Video card and connect the monitor to it.
Then boot the system.
Plug and Pray will detect the monitor connection to the new video card and disable the old chip.

With the Voodoo card the most important part is setting the IRQ for video in the Bios.
In your Bios try to find a setting for Provide IRQ for Video.
Then the Bios and PnP should take care of the rest.

After the hardware is installed and the system reboots you should install the drivers for the Voodoo.
From that point on it will be the default

Hi Rick,

Thanks for helping. I changed the old video adapter to standard vga, shut down and installed the Voodoo card and hooked the monitor to it. I booted up and went into Bios. When I couldn't find the "Onchip Video" setting in the Bios I decided to try and install the Voodoo card anyway since the setting for "Init Display first" was set to PCI. It found the Voodoo, but I waited to install the drivers until I could do it through the Settings. But, I still ended up with two Video adapters in Device Manager. The system was unstable - I got a couple of blue screens. I tried removing the old video adapter in the Device manager, but Windows always found it again.
Finally, after trying several things I went back the way the system was before. I just can't disable the old one for some reason.
I didn't know if something else could keep the setting "Onchip Video" enable/diable from showing or if this Bios is corrupt or? Big D