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gmask
08-20-2003, 12:51 AM
I like a few others have bought new nVidia cards and unthinkingly installed them into systems that only have a 8x AGP slot. Even though in my case the card seems to work okay I stil get Bluescreens and system crashes. At first I thought it was a lack of power but after removing all but the essential components I still got errors. memtest proved that my ram was good. PNY says that it's my board.

Since I had this experience I have spotted several other complaints where the 8x card was not happy sitting in a 4x system.

Some other reported problems are crashing after a few minutes or running or not boot at all. As the no boot be sure to check your bios to make sure your boot drive settings have not been changed by the 8x card install.. happened to me.. I don't know why.

lastly if you have a new 8x card from nVidia and it runs fine in 8x I'd like to hear about it. If you are running it without trouble in a 4x system I'd like to hear about that as well.


TIA
JDex
08-20-2003, 01:26 AM
Hey gmask...

I have a PNY Quadro 4 980XGL on a Tyan Tiger MPX mobo. The card is 8x and the slot is 4x. I haven't run into any problems as of yet, is it possible that one of these new viruses is f'ing with your rig?
gmask
08-20-2003, 01:30 AM
Originally posted by JDex
Hey gmask...

I have a PNY Quadro 4 980XGL on a Tyan Tiger MPX mobo. The card is 8x and the slot is 4x. I haven't run into any problems as of yet, is it possible that one of these new viruses is f'ing with your rig?

Virus.. no.. I don't use Outlook Virus Express or download my mail to my computer and my mail service has built in virus protection. The parity error went away after I put my old card in so that pretty much narrows the problem down to the 8x/4x mismatch in my case.


I also have a tyan board but it is one of their first dual Athlon Thiunder boards so it's kind of old.. your is newer.

I was wondering though that isn't running the card in 4x kind of a waste?
JDex
08-20-2003, 01:35 AM
Yeah, but upgrading the rest of the system is a ways off... isn't really a better board for the $$$ for dual MP's with the MPX bridge... The card will go into the next rig iteration someday...
JDex
08-20-2003, 01:36 AM
You know that that damn worm a few days back didn't require an email entry, just a connection to the web (firewalled or not).
gmask
08-20-2003, 01:57 AM
Originally posted by JDex
You know that that damn worm a few days back didn't require an email entry, just a connection to the web (firewalled or not).

You are correct but if youy have Network Address Translation like I have those ports go to nothing and therefore makes me secure. With NAT you ahve to tell the router which system gets the packets from whichever port.. otherwise none of the ports do anything. However if you are dialed into the net directly through a modem or actually used RPC through your router ( a well known bad idea) you would be at risk.

I have heard of hackers being able to comprimise routers and therefore enabled whatever ports they want but doing so is not trivial.. or least so I am lead to beleive.
richcz3
08-20-2003, 03:08 AM
I have ATI AGP 8 sitting in AGP 4 slots.
The only problem I can note on one system is that even when I set Fast AGP writes in the BIOS the Drivers will not allow it. No stability problems aside from that.

I believe it's my Tyan dual board to be more finiky than most motherboards though.

richcz3
gmask
08-20-2003, 03:26 AM
Originally posted by richcz3
I have ATI AGP 8 sitting in AGP 4 slots.
The only problem I can note on one system is that even when I set Fast AGP writes in the BIOS the Drivers will not allow it. No stability problems aside from that.

I believe it's my Tyan dual board to be more finiky than most motherboards though.

richcz3

Hmm... I'm mainly interested in 8x nVidia boards but now that you mention it I have had some questions about BIOS setting regarding the AGP port. For example there is a setting for the graphics aperture.. I have assumed that you set this to the maaximum amount of ram that your GPU has.
danylyon
08-20-2003, 03:27 AM
I have a PNY Quadro 980 (8x AGP) on a EPOX 8kha+ (1.8ghz Athlon) (4x AGP).

I have it just since saturday (updated from a geforce3).. it has worked well so far.
If you need more infos let me know.

edit: argh.. I just read nvidia boards.. I thought you meant nvidia graphic cards.
edit2: wait... ah.. now I'm totally confused.. lol.
gmask
08-20-2003, 03:35 AM
Originally posted by danylyon
I have a PNY Quadro 980 (8x AGP) on a EPOX 8kha+ (1.8ghz Athlon) (4x AGP).

I have it just since saturday (updated from a geforce3).. it has worked well so far.
If you need more infos let me know.

edit: argh.. I just read nvidia boards.. I thought you meant nvidia graphic cards.
edit2: wait... ah.. now I'm totally confused.. lol.

I mean display cards.. I would assume that motherboards with nvidia graphics built in would run flawlessly..

Your MB is newer than mine as well... I guess I tried to put a V12 into a VW bug.. or something like that ;-)
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