fx5200 ultra on an old trinity 400 motherboard (PIII)

[RaisinLoVe800]

Hi, I recently bought a Forsa GeForce fx 5200 ultra and I wanted to install it on my old system to give it a little boost but after trying to boot up my computer with the card in place, I get a beep code that my motherboard manual translates into a video error where the bios cannot initialize the video screen to display any additionnal information. When I bought the card, I read it was backwards compatible with 4x AGP boards which my motherboard has. I also made sure it was compatible with Windows 98se. These are my computer specs:

PIII 800mhz
Tyan Trinity s1854 Trinity 400
256mb pc133 sdram
Voodoo 5 5500 (trying to transfer it for the 5200 ultra)
SoundBlaster live value
30 gig IBM Deskstar @ 7200rpm

Is there anything I should make sure to check for the installation or is this gpu/mobo combo not compatible at all?


Thank you

 

[Unforgiven]

the card is indeed backward compatible. what wattage of power supply are you using in your pc?

 

[RaisinLoVe800]

Ok, I don't know much about computers so how can i check the power supply?

 

[johnjkr1]

You might also want to conisder flashing your motherboard to the latest bios

 

[huesmann]

And ensure that the card is seated properly. Does it have the stupid little trapper tab?

 

[GregANDTCH]

"how can i check the power supply?"
Check the label on the power supply & list all the spec's on it.
(Brand, amps at 12v, etc)
Someone here can give you an idea of how much power it has.

 

[Gamingphreek]

It could be the power supply however that card i believe is a 1.5 volt and the early P3 boards are only 3.3 volt. You need a new M/B and CPU (and memory actually) i think that is the only option
Good luck

 

[GregANDTCH]

Here's a link to the video list at Tyan:
Tyan website for S1854
They haven't updated it in awhile though.
The Bios does have a 4X setting, but I'm using a 3dfx card and have it set to 2X.
I've never tried a better card in it.

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