Having trouble installing a Hercules Stingray 128/3D

[aARON]

I recently got a Hercules Stingray 128/3D (dual). Well, I wanted to put it into my cousin's old IBM Pentium 120 (oc'd to 133) Aptiva.
So I disable the onboard video (through a jumper) then I plug the Stingray into a PCI slot, plug the monitor, and turn the computer on. Nothing shows up on the screen and after a few seconds the computer just gives a long continuous beep. The same thing happens even if I enable the onboard video.
Can u guys help me please? Does anyone know anything about the Stingray, especially the dual kind? I have no documentation and there's nothing on the Hercules website. Please help! I promised to upgrade the Aptiva for my cousin and I would feel guilty if the only thing i did was overclock the processor.

[JonmaTifa]

From the way it sounds, the problem isn't with the Stingray. Maybe you accidentally bumped something while istalling the card, or changing the jumpper. See if the ram and such is installed properly into the motherboard. You said you tired it again without the Stingray (with just the onboard?)

(By the way, this sounds strangely familiar to me because I had an m571 motherboard w/ onboard video and I ran it with a Stingray, but never had any problems...)

My advice would be to solve the problem the scientific way, eliminate variables. That means right now there are a hand full of things the problem could be, but you use various methods to prove to yourself that the suspect culprits aren't the problem until you have eliminated all but one, or you can't seem to eliminated a certain variable, by any method you try.

[aARON]

What I meant was I tried putting the onboard video back on AND putting in the Stingray (as if I was gonna use two monitors) but with the same result: the continuous beep. If I take out the Stingray, there is no beep at all, with or without onboard video on.
So basically there is only a problem when I put the Stingray in.
I might try reformatting but it doesn't really make sense for it to be a software problem ... nothing loads, just the beep, which signifies a problem with the system board.

[JonmaTifa]

yeah, reformatting shouldn't help at all, because the problem is occuring when the Bios is first initiating the computer.

One thing I know is that not all Vid cards support multi-monitoring. I don't think the Stingray does because it was made in 97 and I think multi-monitor came in 98. The same might go for the on-board video.

I wish I could be of some more help, but maybe there is more than one jumper associated with the onboard video, so when you diable it, or rather half disable it, it conflicts with the stingray because one or both of them are not multi monitor compatable.

I know, I know, you are probably sure there are no other jumpers, it wouldn't make much sense anyway... If you can try out the stingray in another computer. (Again, I know you probably know it works alright.)