On Monday 29 July 2002 09:13 am, Gerald W. McCollum wrote:
> Hello all. I have a question about a legend of a board (IMHO, of
> course). I have just purchase an
> ASUS P5A motherboard; it was on sale for $20.00. So.... I've been putting
> together a nice system
> which so far includes:
>
> Apex ATX100-G2 ATX case 300W-P4 power supply
> AMD K6-2 450Mhz with a nice CoolMaster heat sink and fan
> 3x256 168 pin DIMM SDRAM memory for a maximum of 768M Ram
> PCI soundblaster sound card
> standard issue 56K modem
> 2 - case fans (to more than handle any heat issues and air circulation
> inside the case)
> CDRom drive
> CDRom RW drive
> 3.5 HD floppy
> 5.25 HD floppy (YES, even one of these....OK, I'm a sentimentalist..OK)
> 2 - 40M hard drives master/slave combo
>
> if everyone had been paying attention, you might of noticed that I haven't
> mention anything about a
> video card.
> That is because I'm having a BIG problem with a video/graphics
> card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Sorry for the shouting. I am presently using a 4M Trident 9750 video
> card. I went out with a joyous
> and innocent mind by buying an ATI 64M Radeon 7000 agp 4x/2x DDR card. I
> have tried several times
> to install this bastion from hell and, as you all have guessed, I have been
> very unsuccessful at doing so.
> I want to continue to use the most out of this board, as you all may have
> seen from the list above.
> This e-mail is posted with much anxiety(sp?) for hast to a successful
> solution to this problem.
> Okay....okay...calm down now......okay.....okay....swallow, count to ten.
> My question is, anybody out there that has had or knows someone who has had
> AGP video problems
> with this motherboard or has any knowledge of this problem, could you
> please share that knowledge
> with me. And, could someone please tell me if the above mentioned video
> card is really a good one to
> use with maybe the right down-loaded drivers or is there, say, a top three
> known AGP video/graphics
> cards to work with the ASUS P5A motherboard.
> I want to thank you all well in advance for any and all help to this
> temporary set-back.
>
> Gerald
Gerald:
Have you verified that the ASUS board is compatible with the Radeon card? I
know that other motherboards of the same vintage were for AGP 1.0 only,
whereas your ATI card is for AGP 3.0. In that case, it won't work. If you
didn't get a manual with your motherboard, check the ASUS site -- they should
have a downloadable manual available.
Regards,
Carroll Grigsby
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