Hi Grant and All

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002  you wrote:

>Date:    Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:29:56 EDT
>From:    Grant Hightower <[log in to unmask]>
>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

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.. 

Mark Paulson

Silicon Valley
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