here's the story of my problem...
I got a new GeForce 3 yesterday and when I put it in my Asus K7V 133 board replaceing a GeForce256 it wouldn't boot. A little steamed I tried it on my other system an MSI MS-6380 DDR board, and it booted! I was thrilled and moved my hardware around to take advantage of this marvalous upgrade.

Then problems started all over the place, I felt like getting it setup in Windows first (I want to recompile the kernel and all in Linux which would take a while and I wanted to try out the new card first ) graphics were at 16 colors. Of course this was OK because it was a new card so I downloaded the latest nVidia drivers and installed them. Nope, they were 'unable to detect an NVIDIA chipset' <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />

What?!? The BIOS bootup said it was a

GeForce 3 ti 200
128MB DDR

So I messed around with this for awhile with no luck. OK, let's try it in Linux. I booted, it detected all the new hardware and set it up. X would not start, OK, 'setup' 'X Configurator' and went along with the install. It detected the GeForce 3 ti 200, my monitor with the same settings as before...then it could not read the video memory, so I manually set it for 128 and continued with the resolution settings and then tested X...it wouldn't start. After trying several resolution settings with no luck, I checked the /var/log/XF86config.0.log and noticed it was having problems with the v-sync...odd, I've seen this with improper monitor settings in the past, but I am using the same settings as before...

I'm thinking there is a problem with the motherboard, I've been using a Voodoo Banshee on the MS-6380 because all the other GeForce cards I've tried failed to boot (Geforce256 and a GeForce 2 MX) because it did not support AGP Pro, which is why I was a bit shocked that this one worked.

Do I need to get a new board that supports AGP Pro 2.0 for this to work? If so, any suggestions? I need it to work with DDR memory, GeForce 3 ti 200 and an Athlon XP 1600.

Sorry for the Linux stuff, I go both ways <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />