GeForce4 MX 440 showing no onboard memory

[Pyrite]

I got ahold of a Geforce4 MX 440 PCI card as for a second monitor on my system. I have been rather unimpressed with its performance... whenever I video on it the sound is garbled etc etc
Messed with Drivers and Bios settings a bit to no avail...

So I ran 3DMark on it and it detects it as having 0 bytes onboard memory and says its not capable of 3D graphics, refuses to run tests... whereas my Geforce3 AGP card it correctly detects at 64 meg...
Looking for suggestions.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Its because the MX series really have no video memory. They use your hard drive storage to serve as "virtual RAM" and page to and from the HD as necessary.

....OK...not really 🙂

Bump for ya, cause I don't know.

 

[Mloot]

Is this a second card in your system?

 

[Pyrite]

Yes, its a second video card for an extra monitor. Its working... just running like crap considering that its a 64 meg card.

Abit KR7A board w/XP 1600
Geforce3 Ti 500 AGP from PNY (working beautifully)
Geforce4 MX 440 PCI from PNY (working like a POS)
WinXP OS

I know PCI cards run poorly compared to AGP but this thing is a complete Flop. I am taking it to a second system tomorrow to see how it works... but I am pretty frustrated right now. I personally cannot imagine whats causing it to appear to have 0 megs of onboard memory.

 

[DeschutesCore]

Sounds like a conflict of some kind. The only time I've ever seen memory counted far off like that was a GF2 GTS 32MB reported as 3MB in dxdiag. The card couldn't handle any 3d activity and had been cooked when the owner ignored the dead GPU fan for 3 months.

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