Siluro GF4 Killed my mobo!!

[Tripleshot]

:| I am super steamed at this. My main machine,or at least the one I use most often for mail and CD burning, was available for a new Video card my supplier sent me at what I thought was a reasonable cost. WRONG! I took at a perfectly good Matrox G400 and put in the GF4 card in the AGP slot of my Abit BE6 II mobo with a PIII 600. You would think that if they are both Abit they would get along ,right?

Wrong again. I installed the card after I removed the G400 Matrox via the control panel and a re boot. The Siluro never did get installed or accepted by Win98 and finally the system just shut down. Next thing I do is pull the G4 and try and put back the G400.

Nope. No video. Ok let me try this ATI Rage Fury Maxx card here andsee if it works. I need to at least see my OS and get my mail.

No deal. No video coming out of the AGP slot at all.

OK, lets see if the PCI bus works. I rip out a generic PCI 4 meg card,and walla, It boots and I can see at 16 colors. OK, maybe a bios needs to be updated. With the PCI card in so i can at least see a screen,I go to update bios withthe latest from Abits site.

Nope. As soon as award flash starts the process,it informs me that my bios is not recognized. I can't even update the bios now.

Abit, Kiss My ARS! I will never buy another of your products nor advise anyone that you are any good at all. You can send all the reference crap to Anand you want to to get some glorified review, but I will stick with Epox or MSI or Amptron before I buy another piece of crap from you.


Oh, and I just fired my supplier. I can get a more reputable supplier for my business who at least does not pretend to endorse crap they know is defective.

I hope you all take this warning to heart. My ATI radeon 8500 and 7200 are working flawlessly. I couldn't be more pleased with the quality. I thought I would give Nvidea a nod, but I got screwed. No video card, and no motherboard. It took out my nic and damaged files on my HDD. I am super pissed off at them now.:|

 

[richleader]

Have you tried using a jumper to reset your bios?

 

[spanky]

R.I.P.

 

[Tripleshot]

richleader

I sure did. I tried everything. The AGP slot is dead, and it took out some traces probably on the mobo in the vacinity of my Nic and Soundblaster card. If I could get my hands around the neck of the A holes that made this card, I'ld choke the living sh!t out of them.:|
I am tired of sloppy craftsmanship coming from Tawain. And worse yet is I have found out Asus has moved to Mainland China and the QoS has gotten worse and there return policy now mirrors the horror stories of Abit. No more for me or my customers. I am shopping for stablity, not gimmicks. I want reliable product, and I, nor my customers, should not be field testing their crap on our nickle. I paid $109 for this card.It is a retail card. It is a box of trash now.

 

[Bozo Galora]

uh, you still havent mentioned what exact model vidcard this was (GF4MX440?)

AGP 4X is 1.5V only
AGP 2X can be 3.3V (old cards) or 1.5V (new cards)
AGP 1X is 3.3 only

Sounds like thru some config your mobo/bios detected card bios wrongly tried to send 3.3V to card and
it wouldn't take it

was your bios set to 2X or 1X?
does your AGP slot have 1, 2 or no cross braces

 

[xerx]

I think the BE6-II is culprit. I had had it for a year before I tossed it for CUSL2-C. The board is quite troublesome, the Highpoint controller doesnt work the way it should, not to mention the poor IDE performance for it. Secondly the Slot 1 mechanism seems to have some problem with Intel EB chip although ABIT said it would work properly. I put in a FCPGA EB, it doesnt work but if I change it for Slot1 EB chip, it works like a charm. Poor QA.

 

[johneetrash]

dibs on the gf4