[Pc_Support] Re: nForce2 Ultra? KT600? Socket A mainboard search -- $37 SiS748+964L

[Jason Boxman]

On Saturday 30 July 2005 21:03, you wrote:
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> BTW, on your existing ECS K7S5A, it doesn't have an AGP voltage dumper
> anywhere does it?

I am fairly certain it doesn't provide any information about the AGP slot.  
I'll have to check next I reboot.

> Also, have you tried putting back in the video card and setting very,
> very conservative AGP settings?

The only option I had to play with was "AGP 4x Support: Enable/Disable" so I 
tried disabling it and rebooting.  No effect.

> Lastly, have you tried resetting the BIOS jumper?  (i.e., set to 'clear'
> -- press power button, it won't turn on -- then set it back to 'normal')

I thought about that when my system wasn't booting after leaving the CD-ROM 
ATA cable in, but no molex power.  Fortunately the solution was just to 
unplug both cables. ;)

Anyway, regarding my 6800GT, I tried it in a friend's board, an Asus A7n8x 
basic/non-delux PCB v1.06, which claims AGP 8x/AGP 3.0 compatibility right on 
the product page.  I had identical screen corruption at boot time.

From what I can see briefly at boot time, though, this is an NV43 chipset.  
It's possible even his board isn't able to handle it.  In his BIOS, for the 
Asus, you can change the AGP slot voltage and he only had options for 1.5V, 
1.6V, and 1.7V.  There were no other options.  If it did 0.8V I'd suspect it 
would at least be listed.

So it might still not be the card.  Not sure.

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Jason Boxman
Perl Programmer / *NIX Systems Administrator
Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing | University of Florida
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