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P5A-B ASUS Video AGP problems

Markfw

Markfw

Moderator Emeritus, Elite Member
I tried to put a Radeon 7500 in the AGP slot. It worked, until the boot after the drivers, then a bunch of garbage on the screen. After updating the bios, and changing every bios setting I could think of that might help, I gave up. After talking to a friend who owns a PC hardware store, he suggested that that board had serious AGP compatability problems. So I tried a TNT2 32 meg card. Well, it installs great, but when you try to run 3dmark2001se, it says someting like my card doesn't have all the support required, and won't run at all. When I run dxdiag, it verifies I have DX 8.1, and all three of the "things" on the video tab say Enabled, but when it tries to test DX 8.1, it says "3d not available" I know this card is not fully 8.1 compliant, but shouldn't it still work ?

Motherboard problems ?? (I upgraded the AGP drivers to 1.68)

Suggestions are welcome.:disgust:
 
Bump ?? Any video experts out there ????

Edit: This is posted in general hardware, since there is a high change it is motherboard or video, or is a bad combination of the two.
 
ALI's AGP implementation is really atrocious. I would not try running more than a Geforce2MX in it and even that is iffy.

As said before there is a current supply problem to the AGP port also, and on top of that ATI video cards have never gotten along particuarly well with Super-7 systems.

go here and ensure you have the latest AGP driver. YOu can use the ALI Magik AGP drivers on the P5A-B (they are up to 1.90).

Really I think you are wasting your time here though. I'd sell the Super-7 system and build a low-end Duron system to replace it (probably using the SiS735 chipset - leadtek make a motherboard as well as ECS WinFast 7350KDA . If you are feeling slightly richer go for an nforce board. Either way you will have a far better system to work with.

Greg
 
Thanks for the replies. The problem here is that this is for a friend (you can see on my rigs, I have NO ALI chipsets, and nothing slower than a 750 Athlon). They just wanted to cruise the web and do word processing, so I sold them one of my old systems. Now they want to game, and the game says "8 meg 3d, and 350 or better", and since this was a K6-3 400, I just wanted to fix the video for them. I have been trying to talk them into upgrading. The problem with the MX200, is that the AGP slot is so close to the CPU socket, that the card can not extend beyond the AGP slot at all. (stupid MB design ASUS!!!) Maybe I will give up trying to fix it, and work harder on the "talking them into an upgrade".

Again, thanks for the input.
 
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