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.
>
>
>
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