Hi all,

I wrote:

>Date:    Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:29:56 EDT
>From:    Grant Hightower
>Subject: Help: video cards on Asus T2P4
>
>Hi,
>I Know this is an old mobo,but is there anyone on this list who has a
>8mb,16mb,32mb,or 64mb video card installed on their P55T2P4 mobo?If you =
do
>what brand? Also what is your BIOS setup with your video card? I have =
been
>trying to setup a Visiontek:1) Xtasy 5564
>gforce2 MX400 64MB PCI (retail)also a 2) nVIDIA TNT2 M64 16MB SDRAM PCI
>(oem)without success, only blank screen at post, but strangely enough, =
>you
>could hear harddrive being accessed and Windows seemed to boot up with =
>no
>video signal
>output.
>I really need answers from T2P4 owners, present or previous.

> FYI:
>There is no AGP slot on this board.
>I don't want to run multiple display (2 video cards).
>Cards were seated properly on board.
>Both cards worked on another computer.
>
>My specs:
>ASUS P/I-P55T2P4
>AMD K6-2,350mhzCPU
>AwardBIOS-#401A0-0207-2 04/28/99- patchJ.2 04/27/2002
>Win98se
>40GB HDD
>128MB MEM
>Sound Blaster awe-32
>S3 trio32/64 pci video
>
>Thank you!
>Grant Hightower

Mark replied:

>This is a Classic board. One of the best ever made, I'm all for
>keeping it in service. You are correct that your present video card is
>THE  weak point of your system.

>Though I have seen plenty of  ultra stabile T2P4s with K6-2s and K6-3s
>at 400MHz  (6x66) and 450MHz  6x75

>i have seen  up to 384MB RAM too

>I mostly used Voodoo 3 3000 PCI and Voodoo 3 2000PCI with these
>boards. Very stable and drive large monitors with crisp fast 2D. You
>might find one used

>Diamond Viper V550 PCI with TV-OUT (NVidia RIVA TNT) these always work
>too

>I have also seen ATI Xpert98 and various older TNT2 boards (not
>M64.can't remember the brands) Also saw a Voodoo 5 5500 64MB  PCI and
>a Voodoo 4 4500PCI

>TNT and GeForce boards vary a lot and with all the model variations I
>doubt their manufacturers care to check them in mainboards more than a
>year or two old.

>You don't need an ultimate latest  video card because you don't need
>to keep up with a GHz CPU that you don't have or for most uses need..=20

>Mark Paulson

>Silicon Valley

Thanks Mark for your reply! A Viper v550 PCI TV out, works fine!

Grant Hightower

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