Asus Geforce 256 DDR and Via chipset motherboards!!

[Jesta]

I have an asus v6800 geforce 256 DDR and have had it running on a P3-500 with a BX motherboard for the last couple years. I tried about a month ago to put in on an older via chipset board and during any direct3d or opengl game, etc, it would lock up in just a few minutes. I switched back to the BX board and had no problems. I recently put in an MSI 694D board and again have the same problem with it locking up after a few minutes of opengl or direct3d. I have tried all the different 4in1's and all the different drivers from both asus and nvidia. I know this card is notorious for not working on anything but a BX board but was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to possibly get this working, or perhaps just time to get a different video card. Help is apprecieated.

 

[knutp]

I have this board running great in my system. I got an asus k7v (via kx133). And I have also buildt a few systems with that vga card, and other via motherboard without any problems.

Just make sure to have 64 mb in agp aparture size, no fast write and no sidebanding enabled in the bios. And to be on the safe side try in agp2X istead of 4. (you can do this in the bios, or when installing the 4 in 1 drivers. Then put the agp in normal mode and not in turbo mode. Im using 4.28 in winme, and 4.32 in win2000 without any problems. And im running 6.31 and 6.49 drivers from asus.

 

[Sharkmeat]

Logical go backwards to try to go forward with AMD.BENCH MARKS are made to fool you into thinking you are better.Only times coun't if you running track and the guy ahead of you wins.Other than that you hearing what people tell you,they call that hear say which means crap.If you buy an AMD you not going to tell a friend your system sucks right!!.You will bragg and feel bad about it lol.Much less when you get pi$$ed off when you lose a game mission that you spent two hours on is lost when you lock up .I like my odds with Intel systems,the bottom lins is none are perfect but go with the better odds.

 

[Jesta]

thanks Knutp, I a currently fixing to try a fresh install with the specs you say you are using. The only difference I can see is that I do have sidebanding enabled in the video card bios and was running at 4x, so I am off to flash it and try it again. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks.

 

[Jesta]

Knutp, one quick question, you mention that you are using the 6.31 and 6.49 drivers from asus. When I check out thier site all I can find are the 3.79 in release drivers and the 5.33 in beta drivers. Are you using 7100 series 6.31 drivers on a 6800 card? thanks again.

 

[Geforcekj]

Can some one explain what setting the AGP apeture(sp?) size does. And what you want the setting at. I have the ASUS V6800 Geforce 256 DDR (32MB)

 

[Sharkmeat]

MAX setting,most asus only go to 64 megs so your peoblem is solved if you have an asus latest board.

 

[MadRat]

Early VIA boards, namely the Apollo Pro's and Pro 133's, could not give enough voltage to the AGP port for many nVidia Geforce and TNT2 cards. It was a hardware problem, not a driver problem. This is possibly your problem.