You may know this about win xp but.............

[Turdhat]

If you have a geforce 3 ti 500 (and a few other geforce cards I have heard) and try to install xp and it goes splat after the 1st reboot during installation it is probably the vid card. I did everything, and I mean everything except change vid cards. I poped on an old riva 128 and WHAM !! It worked like a charm. Just spreading the word.

 

[dmw16]

does this apply to having XP already installed and upgrading to a Ti500?
thanks,
-doug

 

[EXman]

Hey Turd ther is something on your Head!

my GF MX runs ok

 

[HL]

What kind of MoBo do you have?

Does this sound familiar?


<< We had two complaints with the 8KHA+. The first was that for whatever reason, Windows 2000 would not get passed the non-GUI portion of its install with a GeForce3 Ti 500 installed. We hypothesized that this could be a problem of delivering sufficient power to the AGP slot for the higher clocked Ti 500 however once Windows 2000 was properly installed, the Ti 500 worked just fine. We tried multiple cards to no avail. The system would simply hang after the Starting Windows 2000 text prompt appeared after the first reboot in the installation process. The install worked perfectly fine with all other cards including the GeForce3, GeForce3 Ti 200 and the ATI Radeon 8500 >>



This was taken from the initial KT266a roundup here on Anandtech
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1547&p=3

 

[Compellor]

<< does this apply to having XP already installed and upgrading to a Ti500?
thanks,
-doug >>



Once you get Windows XP up and running, you can then install the GeForce 3 Ti 500 video card without a problem.