No, this doesn't mean your vid card will die.  I believe in the VIA chipset,
and have been extremely happy with it and the Nvidia GeForce vid card.  I
was the original poster of the GeForce 1 Hercules 3D Prophet DDR-DVI 32meg /
SOYO m/b problem.  I have since replaced the motherboard, which it turns out
was the original problem.  I truly do not believe that overclocking killed
the board, as I wasn't pushing anything too hard.  My memory bus was at
105mhz, my FSB was at 140mhz, my PCI was running at 37mhz, and the AGP was
running at it's normal 66mhz.  Truly, the only thing I was pushing was the
processor, and it's still rock solid.  I do not overclock my video card, as
I do not want to go to the trouble of cooling my case and having a loud
machine in my bedroom.  To replace the original m/b, I went out and found
the same SOYO m/b, the 6VCA.  At least it was $16 cheaper a year and 3
months later.  Why did it die?  Who knows....power surge, one too many times
banging on the case to get the front panel to go on, I looked at it cross
eyed one too many times.

However, I will advise if you want to run in high resolution with 32bit
color depth, get an Nvidia GeForce card with DDR ram.  It will retain the
FPS while the MX card, even with 64meg, was a dog in comparison.

Thank you to the board for helping me troubleshoot.  Your opinions helped,
and I appreciate it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy J. Anderson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 10:06 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] GeForce 2 MX video card and Via motherboard chipset


> ATTENTION!!!!!!!!! I'm been worried that because of a report that was
posted said that the GeForce video card was installed on a Soyo motherboard,
it was fine for one year then the video card was failing and even when
antother one was inserted in the Soyo motherboard's AGP slot, no video was
displayed!!!!!!!!!
> Does this mean that a GeForce video card will fail with motherboard
getting fried if I have a Soyo motherboard??? However, that person that
posted I believe
> said that he or she overclocked the bus on motherboard. But, I have
another major worry, that if my motherboard has a Via chipset, the GeForce
video card will have messed up graphics that can't be fixed (distorted video
and/or tearing). HELP!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> ---Randy J. Anderson---
>
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