Hi,
I have the above MB in a 6 year old Micron computer. It makes a good
utility machine for my ham station. Shortly after I bought it as my
primary machine, I upgraded to an ATI video card to replace the OEM
64M NVIDIA Geforce2 GTS/PRO. That card worked well for years, but
recently died. In trying to get a replacement, I bought, and
returned, 3 cards. Two had NVIDIA chips, and the other was an ATI. In
the case of the NVIDIA-based boards, it would run perfectly, until you
started using it. After a while, the display would lock up and/or
crash, as if it were overheating. How soon it died depended on how
hard you worked the display. (Cooling checked, and good.) The ATI
card would not boot to Windows XP at all. Fortunately, I still have
the original board, though it is on its 3rd cooling fan.
After talking with all three tech supports, the problem _seems_ to be
the AGP 4X implementation on the MB not being compatible with modern
boards, even if they are listed as 2X,4X, and 8X compatible. They are
waving their hands, really, but the old replacement ATI card was only
4X, and one I borrowed from a friend, out of his machine, was 4X and
worked fine. All the new cards I tried were 8X, backwardly compatible
with 4X. This does lend some credence to the theory.
An obvious solution is to give up and get a new machine, or get a used
card on eBay or similar. However, I thought I might ask if anyone
knows of a current card which will work in this application?
--
Alan
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