486 100mhz needs a card. Can a GeForce mx400 pci....

[Budbd]

Okay, maybe a lame question, considering what I am doing. Have two older extra pc's other than my new Dell I have been playing around with, and I would like to put in a better video card into a 486 100 mhz machine, have a GeForce mx400 pci that the box says was rated only for PII and above.

I plan on having 128 mb soon(only 16mb now, and a non working anymore 16 mb module sitting beside it needing to be yanked) into the old 486, have win 98 on it now. Oh yeah, I got way too much time on my hands, but I wouldn't mind getting on the net with the 486 and its upper limit of memory, and have better video, and besides, I don't have the driver cd, and there seems to be some kind of conflict with that old ATI mach 64, not being able to load the drivers off of win 98.

Oh well, I sure wish I could use that pci geforce mx400, but I fear I would blow the card or the 486 motherboard if I tried them together.

The board in question is a pvi-486sp3, originally a dx40 with overdrive processor to 100 mhz. Yeah, once again, I know this is kind of lame, but I sure would like to see the look on my neighbors face if I showed him what I did with that 486 he sold me for $5.

 

[nanaki333]

ummm.. you should just get an old trident card. i have a 4MB PCI one i will never get rid of. it's a tank!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3762&item=5106412435&rd=1 there's one up for auction you may wanna look at.

 

[Safeway]

I have a few old old cards like that. I will never use them again.

 

[Marsumane]

Originally posted by: Budbd
Okay, maybe a lame question, considering what I am doing. Have two older extra pc's other than my new Dell I have been playing around with, and I would like to put in a better video card into a 486 100 mhz machine, have a GeForce mx400 pci that the box says was rated only for PII and above.

I plan on having 128 mb soon(only 16mb now, and a non working anymore 16 mb module sitting beside it needing to be yanked) into the old 486, have win 98 on it now. Oh yeah, I got way too much time on my hands, but I wouldn't mind getting on the net with the 486 and its upper limit of memory, and have better video, and besides, I don't have the driver cd, and there seems to be some kind of conflict with that old ATI mach 64, not being able to load the drivers off of win 98.

Oh well, I sure wish I could use that pci geforce mx400, but I fear I would blow the card or the 486 motherboard if I tried them together.

The board in question is a pvi-486sp3, originally a dx40 with overdrive processor to 100 mhz. Yeah, once again, I know this is kind of lame, but I sure would like to see the look on my neighbors face if I showed him what I did with that 486 he sold me for $5.

I beleive the geforce would work fine if it plugs in. It is overkill, but i dont see y it wouldnt work. Isnt a 486 like 66mhz? I know my old 100mhz computer was a Pentium chip.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Marsumane

Originally posted by: Budbd
Okay, maybe a lame question, considering what I am doing. Have two older extra pc's other than my new Dell I have been playing around with, and I would like to put in a better video card into a 486 100 mhz machine, have a GeForce mx400 pci that the box says was rated only for PII and above.

I plan on having 128 mb soon(only 16mb now, and a non working anymore 16 mb module sitting beside it needing to be yanked) into the old 486, have win 98 on it now. Oh yeah, I got way too much time on my hands, but I wouldn't mind getting on the net with the 486 and its upper limit of memory, and have better video, and besides, I don't have the driver cd, and there seems to be some kind of conflict with that old ATI mach 64, not being able to load the drivers off of win 98.

Oh well, I sure wish I could use that pci geforce mx400, but I fear I would blow the card or the 486 motherboard if I tried them together.

The board in question is a pvi-486sp3, originally a dx40 with overdrive processor to 100 mhz. Yeah, once again, I know this is kind of lame, but I sure would like to see the look on my neighbors face if I showed him what I did with that 486 he sold me for $5.

I beleive the geforce would work fine if it plugs in. It is overkill, but i dont see y it wouldnt work. Isnt a 486 like 66mhz? I know my old 100mhz computer was a Pentium chip.

They made 486s up to 100Mhz (in, I think, both 2x50 and 4x25 configs). I ran a 486-DX4-100 for a *long* time (my next CPU was actually a P2, and then I went over to the Athlons and haven't looked back ).

Your video card may not work, but it shouldn't "blow up" anything; PCI cards are PCI cards. It's not like AGP where they switched the voltages around when they went from 1x/2x to 4x/8x.

 

[Budbd]

Thanks for the advice, maybe I will indeed try it later. I did buy another older machine, a P133 with a strange problem that has lots of extra parts, and it has a trident card, tried it, but obviously right now I am having a strange problem with that 486 that won't automatically get drivers off of the win 98 cd. Oh well, I suppose when I finally figure some of this stuff out, I will be expert in 486 tech, haha. Actually I spent some time trying to work out the P133 problem to no avail.

Yeah, right now, I have my pci GeForce2 mx400 still in my just previous main net machine PII 333mhz, and it really worked well in that one, but hey, it was rated for it.

I was just worrying about blowing that card especially, considering I paid $44 for it.