AGP Question

[JaFFa]

I have an old m/b which was released on the advent of P3... It has not really shown its age amazingly until just recently. I decided to change the graphics card to a gefore 2 ti as indicated on my sig. However I haven't actually installed the board yet as it is arriving tomorrow. On the website it states that a 'AGP 2.0 Slot Support' is required. i have tried to research into this and I think this means that the AGp has to support at least AGP 2x which my M/b does. Is this correct? and will it work fine on my setup - I realise it is going to be severly hampered by my 500mhz cpu. My friend has an old 800mhz P3 at 100mhz fsb, would that be compatable, i am pretty sure its not coppermine, my m/b goes upto 8x multiplier.
thanks for any help and sorry for the length of the post :(
Dave

[Pistol]

Welcome to the forum JaFFa :)
Most new motherboards support AGP 4X video cards. These cards should comply with the AGP 2.0 specification, and operate at 1.5 volts. Earlier AGP 1X and 2X cards, operated at 3.3 volts. Motherboards that support AGP 4X & 2.0 spec. should have a AGP retention mechanism connected to their AGP slot. These video cards have a special slot at the back of the card that interlocks with a small plastic stud on the retention mechanism. If the card backs out of the connector .039 inches under shock or vibration, the interconnection between the card and connector can be interrupted, due to the two tier contacts on the video card.
Some Pentium 4 motherboards, like Intel’s D850GB/D850MV, can only accept AGP 2.0 video cards operating at 1.5V, and legacy 3.3V AGP 1X & 2X cards are not supported. The video card’s connective surface, should be made so that if a 3.3V AGP card was to be inserted into one of these motherboards, the 3.3V stripe should not make contact with the AGP2.0 slot. But, I’ve read where some video card manufacturers have cross used screened boards, and a unknowing customer has plugged one of these 3.3V cards into a AGP 2.0 compliant slot, and burn’t the motherboard.
I hope you can make some sense of this cuz I found this on the web

[JaFFa]

errr, kind of, I see what that thing on the end of the slot connector is now, but i dont think I have one, so does that mean I cant support a geforce on my mobo ? i have a ZX chipset and the guy at tekheads (tekheads.co.uk) told me it would be fine, but I get the feelin he was goin for a quick sale.

[Pistol]

To tell you the truth I dont know maybe someone else will chime in and let you know for sure

[JaFFa]

well it comes tomorrow, so ill fill you in then :)

[Pistol]

best of luck to you

[KMS]

hiya,

check your slot

http://www.motherboards.org/images/20/2001/920_p5_1.jpg

[JaFFa]

on my biostar M6TZA it didnt work..
It worked as a standard VGA adapter but after installing either the leadtek drivers or the latest det's it crashed out at windows. Leaving the monitor in standby but windows loading on the machine.
I swapped my mainboard with a mate for a chaintech 6BTM, thinking that the problem was m/b connected. The problem actually got worse after this as then it had the exact same problem but didnt even run as a standard VGA card.
Is this because the 6BTM and the biostar have to have AGP 1 cards in them and not AGP 2 standard cards?

Also it has the latest bios which is coppermine compatable, can i just put a coppermine 800mhz on the board and set the fsb and x accordingly ?
thanks