Can someone help me ID this video card?

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat May 22, 2004 12:42 am

Here are the pics:

front:

back:

labels:

FCC info:
FCC (note - you can't look up this FCC number according to the FCC Lookup DB. It says, "Equipment displaying this label would NOT be in this database. The FCC would NOT have any record of this equipment. It is declared to comply with FCC regulations by the manufacturer or importer."
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/help.html

memory:

I bought the card from my son, and he never kept a manual or any other info on the card. I'm trying to determine how much ram is on this card is my main concern, along with it's capability. He "thinks" it's an Asylum Geforce 4 MX400-SE:
http://bfgtech.com/440-se_redux.html

Anyone have any ideas?

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Sat May 22, 2004 1:06 am

place it in a system....boot up, and see what it says

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat May 22, 2004 5:39 am

What he said.

Looks like an OEM NVidia TNT2 to me.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:09 am

Originally posted by FlyingPenguin
Looks like an OEM NVidia TNT2 to me.

Ditto

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat May 22, 2004 3:52 pm

Hehe, I forgot about the initial display when you boot up. Thanks for reminding me, but I still did not get anything to display on the screen when it's booted. I put it in my daughter's BH6. I removed her Voodoo3, and that card does display its info when booted, but no matter what I tried with the monitor I'm using, it never displays anything on the screen even when pressing the reset button. I guess there is not enough time for it to initialize the monitor?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat May 22, 2004 4:45 pm

Let it boot into Windows XP. XP has generic drivers for most cards and that should tell you what it is.

verter · Post by **verter** » Thu May 27, 2004 4:30 pm

memory size is the easiest part. this card has 64Mb of SDRAM

smb · Post by **smb** » Thu May 27, 2004 4:37 pm

I can tell you it was made in China, and it passed QA inspection, and has a black heatsink affixed the the GPU.

sorry I couldn't help anymore than that.

Actually I think it's a Quadro board called the P-71, oem type, IBM specific.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Thu May 27, 2004 4:49 pm

Looking at the model P71 I got this in google..

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/compat/intelli ... atrix.html

That link refers to two Nvidia cards that have the same thing in their model Number..

Over at 2CPU.com they say it may be an Nvidia Quadro?

http://forums.2cpu.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

Don't know if this was enough help, or any for that matter.

eGo

verter · Post by **verter** » Thu May 27, 2004 4:52 pm

this one has different connectors config (DVI instead of VGA+S-Video) but the board is the same

btw it's NVidia Quadro4 200NVS (semi pro 2D card)

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Thu May 27, 2004 7:17 pm

Thanks for all the replies, but I believe the card is a BFG Geforce 4 MX420. Their site only shows a PCI version, but according to my son's friend (they both bought the card at the same time), that is what the card is according to him.

I think it's just weird that they would not properly identify the card. The company, BFG Technoligies, takes you to Asylum, but I still can't find a picture of the card to make sure it's the 64 meg version.

One of these days I'll go ahead and install it in a system I'm building with XP to see what it detects the card as.

ForceCalibur · Post by **ForceCalibur** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:37 pm

Definately a Geforce 4 MX420. I own one. Don't know whether that is a PCI or AGP version though.

The_Frapster · Post by **The_Frapster** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 10:45 pm

it's agp, the fingers are further from the slot end.

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:41 am

Originally posted by Executioner
Thanks for all the replies, but I believe the card is a BFG Geforce 4 MX420. Their site only shows a PCI version, but according to my son's friend (they both bought the card at the same time), that is what the card is according to him.

Definetely agree with that, although I've seen a VERY SIMILAR looking 9200se.