Just saw it today. BIOS gave the option of using the onboard video BIOS, or AGP BIOS, as primary. The machine had a PCI video card, and the motherboard flatly refused to work with it; it gave all sorts of weird behavior, and could be teased into functioning only and occasionally by rebooting to safe mode and then up. On this board and its kindred, therefore, we either go onboard video or AGP video, both, or a replacement motherboard! No PCI, even though there were 6 PCI slots to choose from.
Category: BIOS
Sometimes only AGP, not PCI, video cards
article #15, updated 6038 days ago
Vista requires working APIC and ACPI 2+
article #9, updated 6053 days ago
On this page:
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/rss/tags/acpi
it is reported that Vista requires ACPI, and more importantly, APIC. APIC is a relatively new timing chip. Many motherboards have nonworking APICs.