Help - Gefore Pro

pol

Can anyone please help with the following problem.

I have at the moment a PII 266, chaintech motherboard with a ATI 4mb card linked with a voodoo 2. A friend of mine gave me a 3D Blaster GeForce Pro CT6971, but every time I put the new card into the system it hangs at a different stage of booting up, so I can't instail the drivers. At first I put this down to an old Bios and updated that with the latest update and the latest flash program, but too no avail.
Has anyone any idea's what could be wrong?

chernobyl

is the ATI card integrated?, pci?...removed?


clean install of OS?

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Ashley Lyn

Ashley Lyn Cafagna

pol

No its a AGP so I had to remove it
I was just going to keep the same OS (if I can)

KinG

Go through all your bios setings ,

Check the AGP (X)speed , 1x,2x,4x.

Most chaintech boards use a VIA chipset.
Get the latest 4in1 Chipset drivers.

8-)

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=KinG=

Gerry

No, thats utter rubbish, it would be true to say that the majority of CURRENT chaintech boards use via chipsets. Since it is a pII 266, it more than likely uses the chaintech 6LTM motherboard, with the intel 440lx chipset. This chipset unfortunately was an early agp chipset, and boards based on it do not always make adequate provisions for powering newer power hungry cards like the geforce.

However, it could be just that windows doesn't like the card, because it is possibly trying to use ati drivers still.

Try putting the ati back in, then remove the drivers for the ati card. I.E. uninstall all the ati software, then remove the card from control panel -> system -> device manager -> display adapters. Then put in the new card. If this still doesn't work it may just be your motherboard.

pol

Thanks Gerry,
I'll give that a go see what happens , and your right about the motherboard it's a chaintech 6LTM motherboard. I'll let you know how it goes.

phaxx

A friend had exactly that problem with his pII 233 and a GeForce. We came to the conclusion that it's just too slow, and there isn't enough ram. He bought a duron 700 and gobs of ram, it works perfectly. As far as I know.

You can get a duron 700 these days for about £60, and ram is stupidly cheap, at about £30 for 128mb. You might want to look into a new machine.

pol

No, it's still not working, I uninstalled the ATi and changed the card and this time I got all the way to window before the system locked up. looks like I need a new motherboard and processor - has anyone ever use ebay to get these - any thoughts?

BTW - thanks for your help.

Superman

yeah you can get plenty of good deals on ebay, JUST make sure to check the shipping + handling, caus sometimes the give you the cost of shippping and con you at the end of the auction with huge shipping cost