Edna:
I suspect that the problem is the 175 watt power supply -- that's kinda
small, and you've got a fairly heavy complement of equipment. I found a
site last week (maybe here) that has an on-line program that sizes the
power supply based on the stuff that has been installed. Since they are
in the business of selling hardware, the estimates may be biased on the
high side, although they came fairly close to my situation. The address
is:
www.pcpowercooling.com/products/power_supplies/selector/index.htm
Regards,
-- Carroll
Edna Sloan wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>>>> snip
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