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NVidia Video cards-Success!!!! [message #75039]

Sat, 28 October 2006 13:51

Messages: 1124
Registered: July 2005

Senior Member

After doing some extensive investigation I discovered that the info that I
ot from what I thought was a reliable source vis-a-is "the voltage being
3.3 was wrong. These cards are 1.5v. I got this straight from NVidia tech
support so I started poking around trying to figure out where I had ****'ed
up. I found it. Somehow, my BIOs had flipped from 4 x to 8 x. this card will
not work on my mobo at 8 x and all hell breaks loose, eventually causing
the system to either crash or boot to safe mode. I've been up and running
for two hours with 2 x NVidia GEForce FX series 5500 dual heads (running
128 MB VRAM) per head on my Paris rig (AGP and PCI-share sameIRQ on my mobo)
and so far things are holding up nicely.

I thought you guys might like to know about this. I just couldn't surrender
to the idea of Matrox G450's being the only option. I think we're over the
hump here.

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Re: NVidia Video cards-Success!!!! [message #75064 is a reply to message #75039]

Sat, 28 October 2006 18:31

Aaron Allen

Messages: 1988
Registered: May 2008

Senior Member

This is incredibly timely news. Danke'
AA

"DJ" <d@J.com> wrote in message news:4543b4b9$1@linux...
>
> After doing some extensive investigation I discovered that the info that I
> ot from what I thought was a reliable source vis-a-is "the voltage being
> 3.3 was wrong. These cards are 1.5v. I got this straight from NVidia tech
> support so I started poking around trying to figure out where I had
> ****'ed
> up. I found it. Somehow, my BIOs had flipped from 4 x to 8 x. this card
> will
> not work on my mobo at 8 x and all hell breaks loose, eventually causing
> the system to either crash or boot to safe mode. I've been up and running
> for two hours with 2 x NVidia GEForce FX series 5500 dual heads (running
> 128 MB VRAM) per head on my Paris rig (AGP and PCI-share sameIRQ on my
> mobo)
> and so far things are holding up nicely.
>
> I thought you guys might like to know about this. I just couldn't
> surrender
> to the idea of Matrox G450's being the only option. I think we're over the
> hump here.

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Re: NVidia Video cards-Success!!!! [message #75075 is a reply to message #75064]

Sat, 28 October 2006 19:20

animix

Messages: 356
Registered: September 2006

Senior Member

You're welcome. I figured you'd be glad to hear this and I just couldn't
doom either one of us to Matrox hell any longer. I know you've been looking
for another solution too. To be successful, , then DL the moxt recent
NVidia dirvers (it's a .exe). Then uninstall your Matrox drivers and then
delete the MGA file from your C:\ root directory. Shut down and boot to the
BIOS. Make sure you are set to AGP x 4 and your AGP voltage is either AUTO
or 1.5, exit and reboot-you may get a series of beeps on reboot and your
system may hang......just shut the system off and reboot again and you will
be good. When windows detects the card and asks to look for a better driver,
hit "cancel" and o ahead and let windows load. Next run the NVidia driver
..exe to load the driver and software. Get your monitors configured (the
master head is the top one and you will need a DVI to AGP adapter for these
heads), then shut down, load the PCI card in a slot that shares IRQ with the
AGP and reboot. Just follwo the yellow brick road to enable the other
monitors and you're good to go.

Deej

"Aaron Allen" <know-spam@not_here.dude> wrote in message
news:45440259@linux...
> This is incredibly timely news. Danke'
> AA
>
>
> "DJ" <d@J.com> wrote in message news:4543b4b9$1@linux...
> >
> > After doing some extensive investigation I discovered that the info that
I
> > ot from what I thought was a reliable source vis-a-is "the voltage being
> > 3.3 was wrong. These cards are 1.5v. I got this straight from NVidia
tech
> > support so I started poking around trying to figure out where I had
> > ****'ed
> > up. I found it. Somehow, my BIOs had flipped from 4 x to 8 x. this card
> > will
> > not work on my mobo at 8 x and all hell breaks loose, eventually causing
> > the system to either crash or boot to safe mode. I've been up and
running
> > for two hours with 2 x NVidia GEForce FX series 5500 dual heads (running
> > 128 MB VRAM) per head on my Paris rig (AGP and PCI-share sameIRQ on my
> > mobo)
> > and so far things are holding up nicely.
> >
> > I thought you guys might like to know about this. I just couldn't
> > surrender
> > to the idea of Matrox G450's being the only option. I think we're over
the
> > hump here.
>
>

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