Geforce 4 (Visontek ti 4600) problems with epox 8kha+ mobo!

[Kryotech]

The Graphics card is so long that the way the card is built the capasitor (i think its a capasitor) touches with the capasitor on the mobo and windows won't boot past the loading screen (Windows 2000) and even if i try to format it will also lock up once it says starting windows 2000.... Anyone know of these problems? Could the 2 capasitors touching be causing this? My geforce 3 works fine... i have that in now. Would a peice of electrical tape around the capasitor do any good? Thanks.

 

[GFORCE100]

No this is a Windows 2000 problem (the pausing at bootup). It simply doesn't want to accept it now has a GF4 in the system. The way to fix it is to reinstall Windows 2000 and it will work. Then it will work. I had this problem too but with a different board to yours, in fact whatever board and a GF4, Win2k doesn't like the sound of it.

 

[Jumpem]

It's been talked about the past few days that the Epox 8kha+ is not compliant with the AGP 2.0 specs. The capacitors on the motherboard near the AGP slot are too tall and will not allow the VisionTek GF4 cards to be seated all the way. I think most GF4 cards have problems with those two Epox boards. I'm not sure there's much you can do about other than trying to find a GF4 card that differs from Nvidia's reference layout or get a motherboard that isn't out of spec. This clearly Epox's problem for not being compliant.

EDIT: Check out this link Epox GF4 article at HardOCP

 

[Kryotech]

If i was to put a peice of electrical tape or slightly move the capasitor to the side, on the mobo that is think it might work? Mine fits in all the way the card snaps into place but the 2 capasitors are touching, I thaught that was causing the interfearance between the two, so I was going to put elecrical tape on the mobo capasitor and see if it would then work.

 

[GFORCE100]

Your test won't harm anything so go ahead and try. Just don't go snapping the capacitors off or you'll be in trouble,