Asus A7V with a GeForce2 GTS - PLEASE HELP

[dmw16]

I was wondering, is anyone out there running a GeForce2 GTS on an Asus A7V motherboard?
thanks,
-doug

 

[Mem]

If you have a problem with your card please give exact details so we can help you.

 

[dmw16]

well I have been trying to get my A7V to work with my VisionTek 32meg DDR GeForce2 GTS. My friend Paul thinks it is the video card not liking the mobo. The techs at mwave(where I bought the board)told me the board is bad and they are sending me a new one. So Im really just wondering is anyone is using a similar card with this mobo.
thanks,
-doug

 

[Engineer]

I'm using the Creative GeForce 2 GTS 32 DDR card with the A7V, 1GHz TBird, 384 Megs of PC100 Cas2 Ram...etc...etc...etc...

I've upgraded the card's BIOS with the latest NVidia Bios, the motherboard with the latest (1.005B) ASUS bios and am using the 4.26 4-in-1 VIA drivers. Also using the NVidia Reference 6.47 drivers. Everything is running rock stable right now. It took some BIOS and driver tweaking to get it to this point, but everything seems OK now. Good Luck.

 

[dmw16]

Two questions:
how do you go about flashing the BIOS?
Could you elaborate on the "tweaking" you did?
thanks,
-doug

 

[Mem]

Go into Bios & disable all video shadowing & fastwrites ,AGP 4x can be enabled it all depends on how stable your system is, if not select AGP 2x for now until you get everything working 100%.

 

[dmw16]

I tried setting my system performance to "normal" instead of "optimal", but I still cant even get through a windows installation without it crashing. If windows is crashing during install, does it sound like more than just the video card?
thanks,
-doug

 

[Mem]

It could be anything, list your hardware specs like ram type & make,PSU etc.

 

[dmw16]

you can read all about it here I went through everyone's suggestions and I also called mwave tech support. They decided the mobo is bad. Im just trying to make sure it wasnt my video card. As a note, something I didnt note at that link, the RAM is Kingston. Im guessing you were able to atleast install windows with the BIOS that came on the board, right?
thanks,
-doug

 

[Mem]

It does sound like faulty hardware however finding the right part is the problem ,I had this happen to me once with BSOD,Windows would not reinstall without crashing etc,I even came here for help & in the end to cut a long story short it was in my case the CPU(T-bird 900 had gone faulty),the only way I found out was to take the PC back to where I purchased the parts & let them do a full diagnostic,lucky for me it was under warranty since the parts were new & I had it all fixed for nothing(nice service).

Btw see if you can try another Video card for someone, see if that improves stability on installing Windows

 

[dmw16]

The mwave techs seemed to think that it was the motherboard. I sure hope it isnt the processor because that would mean I have to send that back too. After I get the new motherboard, Im first going to try it out with my current card, if that doesnt work I will try my old TNT card. If it turns out to be my new GTS I guess Im going to have to try and find someone willing to trade a Radeon for a GTS.
-doug

 

[merlocka]

Just a though, you might wanna check to see that your 300w Antec PS is "AMD approved". I originally thought this was BS, but AMD specs higher current on their approved PS's. So I guess I could say it's no BS with the PS.

My A7V has been suprisingly stable for 3+ months with a Geforce2 GTS 32MB at AGP4x. I use the BIOS the A7V came with like 1003 or something.

 

[dmw16]

How would I determine if my power supply is AMD compatible. As far as I know it is, it is like ATX 2.01 or something.
-doug

 

[Mem]

I thought Antec PSU were very good & all AMD approved,anyway go here for AMD recommended PSU list

 

[dmw16]

Thanks for the info. My powersupply is offically approved by AMD, it is the PP303X.
thanks,
-doug