Hello everyone,

A client has a PII-266 computer (ATX case), with LX mobo, S/B sound
card, Viper330 4Mb AGP video running win95 with lots of games. His video
card has already failed four times since he bought the computer about
year and half ago. I checked his computer, everything else is fine
excapt the video, when boot up, the first post is to report the video
memory - only 2Mb! then in win95, I can't change display setting any
better than 640*480 16 Color. However, there is no problem shown in
device manager. For test, I changed his video to a PCI card, everything
was fine. I thought it might be a problem with win95, but his computer
was taking AGP running without any problem. If it is a hardware problem,
it's also hard to explain why 4 video cards failed in short time.

As his computer is already "smoked" at least 5 video cards (4 AGP, one
PCI card - once he only bring the video card in and asked a temp use
card, we gave him a new 4Mb PCI card, soon the PCI card was gone bad), I
changed his power supply in case the power was to high, but it doesn't
make any sence to me, it can't explain why only the video card <both AGP
and PCI> affected but not everything else. Now I'm waiting the 5th AGP
card in.

Can anyone help with this? Thanks!

J Qian

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