This is what I suspected with the LX board. Actually I was using this board to test the card, as I have a limited time, 5 days, to return it to the vendor. I have another system with a BH6 board and Matrox G400, but I hated to uninstall the Matrox and then have to reinstall it. But still, I don't think the LX would make the video chip run so hot? In fact, I think it was maybe pulling down my power supply - could smell something like a burning resistor, but it wasn't the video card. This system has a 175W AT supply and is running a CD burner, SCSI card, 7200 rpm drive, modem, sound card, floppy. System runs fine now with old pci video card. Guess I may try getting another Matrox card, Mystique or G200 type. Haven't had any experience with Diamond or Creative cards. Thanks, Edna -----Original Message----- From: Ultra <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, October 16, 2000 6:14 AM Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] ATI Rage 128 causing lockups >Edna, > >Not all AGP card work for LX mobo, as later AGP card usually ask for more >power than LX mobo can provide. Please check with Soyo on this. > >If the card is so hot, there must be something wrong, don't risk your video >or even mobo (overheat can damage the AGP slot too!). Get a replacement >card, try again, if still too hot, than your mobo likely won't run such AGP >card. > >Jun Qian > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Edna Sloan" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 3:55 PM >Subject: [PCBUILD] ATI Rage 128 causing lockups > > >> Recently acquired this AGP video card, ATI Rage Fury 128 GL with 16mb >> memory. Installed it in a Soyo 6KL AT MoBo(LX chipset) with latest flash, >> with 64MB ram, and Celeron 300A. I downloaded the drivers from ATI for >the >> card, and checked Soyo site for any newer drivers(none). The board is >rated >> at AGP 1x/2x. I did have a Lightspeed PCI card that worked fine. I >> uninstalled it and booted up with ATI card with Windows default VGA >driver. >> Then installed the ATI drivers, which appeared in device manager as, >> "Magnum/xpert128/x99/. . ." Everything seemed to be working OK till I >> changed the resolution an color depth(600x800 @ 16bit color), at which >point >> it froze. I rebooted and the new color/resolutions held. After a few >> minutes, and going on the 'net if froze again. I rebooted, and again it >> seemed to be OK. The ATI download came with 5 diagnostic tests, of which >> the first four indicated no problem. but the last one froze with the >monitor >> blacked out and no monitor signal evident on the monitor(Viewsonic 17GS) - >> can't remember the test now. SisSoft Sandra didn't indicate any problems >> with the card. I had the case open so checked the HSinked chip on the >video >> card and it seemed awfully hot - I could only touch the HS for about 2 or >3 >> seconds. I shut it down and the next morning gave it another go. Now it >> freezes when it gets to the desktop in Windows(98). I checked the bios >and >> it is pretty much default, and auto on everything. Do I have a bad card? >> I have emailed support where I got the card (XWY), but have not gotten any >> response. > > > PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html