I have a friend who wants me to build him a new system. He's ordered all the parts (XP 2400+, 512Mb PC2100) and is getting a Gigabyte 7VRXP mobo in a trade.
I did some research and found out this mobo has some known issues with GF4 cards due to defective capacitors. Gigabyte will replace the capacitors, although we don't want to deal with RMAing it if we don't have to.
The board is revision 2.0 and from the newsgroups it sounds like the issue was fixed in this revision. Anyone know for sure?
Thanks....
Anyone know if the GF4 problem was fixed in Revision 2.0 of the Gigabyte 7VRXP mobo?
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Anyone know if the GF4 problem was fixed in Revision 2.0 of the Gigabyte 7VRXP mobo?
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HMMM
I built a computer for a friend and his board hated his GF4 also (board was an Abit Be7-RAID, Card was a Chaintech Ti4600- special edition)
I built myself a computer and put a GF4 in mine as well. And I seem to be having some problems......when playing a game or trying to run a benchmark (games RTCW, NWN, benchmark 3Dmark2001se) I get either a crash, lock-up, or get kicked to the desktop. (board Asus P4T533, card Gainward 750xp-golden sample (ti4600).
Does anyone know if this problem exists with Motherboards other than Gigabytes?
Or does my problem sound like "something else"?
I built a computer for a friend and his board hated his GF4 also (board was an Abit Be7-RAID, Card was a Chaintech Ti4600- special edition)
I built myself a computer and put a GF4 in mine as well. And I seem to be having some problems......when playing a game or trying to run a benchmark (games RTCW, NWN, benchmark 3Dmark2001se) I get either a crash, lock-up, or get kicked to the desktop. (board Asus P4T533, card Gainward 750xp-golden sample (ti4600).
Does anyone know if this problem exists with Motherboards other than Gigabytes?
Or does my problem sound like "something else"?
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Yes
I have a rev. 2.0 board and there was a
sticker mentioning the fix.
I run an ati card so I never tried myself.
oh I allmost forgot,get the latest bios upgrade incase of a core issue in the amd chip.Keep it on a floppy along with a xp1600 or so just in case it hasn't been flashed yet. I think it was the 2400's and up where there was a minor problem.
hope this helps.
bill
I have a rev. 2.0 board and there was a
sticker mentioning the fix.
I run an ati card so I never tried myself.
oh I allmost forgot,get the latest bios upgrade incase of a core issue in the amd chip.Keep it on a floppy along with a xp1600 or so just in case it hasn't been flashed yet. I think it was the 2400's and up where there was a minor problem.
hope this helps.
bill
