The funny thing is....it's a 4x card...

And, considering that the board it's on should be running a minimum of 4x,
the issue of 2x should not even come into the picture (pun intended).
Unless you are running a board that supports 2x? If so, voltage should not
have been an issue. My reply was based on the assumption of a newer based
chipseet, that does not allow anything less than 4x (more than 1.5 Volts).
My mistake. I'm convinced that Asus does not have their **** together, on
this issue. Just my opinion.


-
Covo stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:

I was having problems with a brand new Gainward Ti/550 (GF3 Ti500) so
emailed their tech support. They replied within 5 minutes (amazing!)
and said that it ran 3.3v as AGP 2x and 1.5v as AGP 4x.

(I'm still having minor problems with it but that's another
posting........)

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:33:49 -0500, "Strontium"
wrote:

I called Asus directly, on this issue, as I was getting ready to slap
together a P4C800 with this card. They said it was 1.5V.
Obviously, if it's a 4x card, it should be. I just wanted to
verify. This card fried 3 CMOS chips in 3 different P4C800
boards... I'm wondering if the voltage regulation on the card is
what it should be. Then, again, I am able to run this card on a
wIntel D865GBF without a hitch. That gets me to start thinking that
Asus's AGP bus interaction with CMOS is somehow more sensitive or
faulty, in some way. Statistically, it's unrealistic to think that
I had gotten 3 boards with bad CMOS chips. And, believe me, I
systematically deduced the problem down to the video card. Ironic,
since I paid $280 USD for this card 1.5yrs ago.

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I'm sorry. Apparently, I'm feeling a little too psychotic this morning.

-The main character in Postal 2