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April 15th, 2002, 01:36 PM
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April 15th, 2002, 01:42 PM
#2
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"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
André Malraux
(1901-1976)
"Don't let worry kill you -- let the church help."
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April 15th, 2002, 01:48 PM
#3
I've updated the BIOS to the latest and reset it to every default option it could. I don't think I tried moving the AGP to 2x. I thought the GeForce256 and 2 MX were 'old AGP pro', not the newer form factor...not even sure if they are considered 'pro', they do have that extra tab but that's all it is...an extra tab to fit in the newer AGP boards.
And the mainboard is an AGP pro board, if it can run the Banshee there is NO reason that it should not run a GeForce...the mainboard is less then a year old and the same vid cards in question run fine on my 2 year old Asus systems...
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April 15th, 2002, 01:51 PM
#4
I had a similar experience last week with an epox board and on a lark decided to swap out the Power Supply with a new 300w one and it worked......
"give a man a fish, and he will eat a meal, teach a man to fish...."
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April 15th, 2002, 01:57 PM
#5
This is with an Enermax 350w powersupply, I don't think I can get a better one then that 
At least, have no need to...
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April 15th, 2002, 02:00 PM
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The Pro in the K7T266 Pro or Pro2 motherboard does NOT denote AGP Pro Compliance.
From the MSI page regarding the original MS-6380:
Ą° Note : AGP Pro only for K7T266 Pro-R
http://www.msi.com.tw/products/mainboard/mainboard.php?model=MS-6380
If you have the standard Pro motherboard, it DOES NOT support AGP Pro.
The way you can tell if it does support the pro is by a small yellow sticker blocking off part of your AGP Slot:
refer to this site for a picture of an AGP Pro slot:
http://www.evga.com/articles/public.asp?AID=60
Neither of the current Pro2 boards, Pro2, Pro2-U, Pro2-R, Pro2-RU, have AGP Pro complaince..the R in the R and RU designate RAID support.
I would check your box to make sure you have the Pro-R, the original K7T266 (MS-6380). This board does support AGP Pro.
"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
André Malraux
(1901-1976)
"Don't let worry kill you -- let the church help."
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April 15th, 2002, 02:08 PM
#7
I agree, the enermax should do. I've got 2 last ideas, One, try using a pci to vid card boot the comp with the agp card still in it. then go into windows and enable it as a second monior and see if it works. or 2, Clear the cmos at the jumper with the geforce card in it the replace and reboot. After that. I gave up........ Sorry..
"give a man a fish, and he will eat a meal, teach a man to fish...."
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April 15th, 2002, 02:10 PM
#8
That's exactly what the port looks like, the "registration key" is that tab I was talking about...Banshee doesn't have this, so when it's in that spot is empty. The box is sitting next to my desk at home, but I know for sure it is not a pro-R...and I know the Pro does not refer to the AGP slot, the manual does refer to it as an AGP-Pro 4x slot though...and to remove the tab when using an AGP-pro card in the back port(which I did  ) It looks just like the picture...
http://www.evga.com/articles/images/60-e.jpg
PCI vid card? Hey! I think I might have an old Diamond Stealth laying around...or did I give that away to a friend last year?
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April 15th, 2002, 04:02 PM
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I just got three AGP Geforce 256 and few Geforce 2MX videocards (yes,with that "key"),what I have been told, "not working at all".
Checked them all in different BX motherboards laying around (PCPartner,ASUS P2B-F),and all videocards are working perfectly! 
May be, voltage regulator for AGP port isn't powerful enough in that particular MSI motherboard...
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April 15th, 2002, 04:08 PM
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Believe it or not, i have an old trident ISA card on hand for diagnostic purposes, havent pulled it out in 2 yrs, but i know it's there......I read they can come in handy during botched bios flashes.......Anyway what made me suggest the first iten (w PCI card) was i did just that as a last resort with a Diamond speedstar a70 that I thought was dead. I 'Jump started" it just like I told you and to this day it's still going.........
"give a man a fish, and he will eat a meal, teach a man to fish...."
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April 15th, 2002, 05:13 PM
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April 16th, 2002, 12:26 AM
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"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
André Malraux
(1901-1976)
"Don't let worry kill you -- let the church help."
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April 16th, 2002, 07:06 AM
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Agree with Lycia - most likely it's just only incompatibility issue with that particular videocard.
So far as I remember,some of MSI motherboards were having compatibility issues with some of videocards,and were BIOSes released,what fixed it. Check it out.
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April 16th, 2002, 10:01 AM
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I've updated it to the latest BIOS with no luck, and I've tried the GeForce cards with it. That leaves me with the options of leaving it as-is, getting a new video card or get a new MB...
I'm not looking at the last 2 options, so for now it will have to be. Thanks for the help!
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April 16th, 2002, 02:25 PM
#15
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[quote]Originally posted by mahdi:
I've updated it to the latest BIOS with no luck, and I've tried the GeForce cards with it. That leaves me with the options of leaving it as-is, getting a new video card or get a new MB...
I'm not looking at the last 2 options, so for now it will have to be. Thanks for the help!
Could you possibly take just your mobo, cpu, and ram to a store, like a mom and pop shop, and ask to try a vid card in your system before you buy?
"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
André Malraux
(1901-1976)
"Don't let worry kill you -- let the church help."
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