Be careful in your board selection if you want to do this though. I'm in the same situation, using a pci vid card until my PCI-E one arrives, and have found that the newest bios for my board (MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum) won't boot at all with a pci vid card. Older bioses work ok, but have other issues.
Updated bios, mainboard now refuses to boot :( Reset via button on mainboard, still no boot. Gets to single beep, screen has video sync, D-LED's suggest it's at the BIOS Sign On phase (1 and 4 are green), goes no further. Left for 5 minutes, no change. Unplugged pc from mains, unplugged PSU...
I've recently put together this rig (see sig), and my only issue so far is that it won't restart. Shutdown, wait 5 seconds, power on, all is fine. Hit the reset button, all fine. Restart from windows, and the XP logo starts to fade in and stops there. The board came with the 1.4 bios, and I...
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