[AG-TECH] Video boards...

[Yuan (Eric) He]

I got trouble with NVIDIA chip as well. I installed two TNT2 PCI cards
(without an AGP card installed) on an ASUS Dual Socket 370 motherboard,
but Win2K simply crashes into blue screen at its start-up. I tried using
a Matrox dual-head G450 AGP + one PCI TNT2, the same thing happens.
Finally I replaced the two TNT2 cards with one Matrox G200 PCI and one
ATI Xpert PCI. Now I got three cards work together
(MGM450_AGP+MGM200_PCI+ATIXPERT_PCI) under win2k. But there's still
something I don't really understand: (1) Win2k won't start every time,
the machine occasionally needs to be reboot for several times before it
let you log on, just like Jay's problem. But as long as win2k boots,
every video card works just fine. (2) PCI cards are very picky at slots.
Now I let G200 stay in slot 1 and Xpert stay in slot4. But this is the
only scheme that I found can work for all three cards. I can't exchange
G200 and Xpert for their slot numbers; neither can I put Xpert in PCI
slot 2 or 3. I can understand there may be interrupt conflicts between
certain pairs of PCI slots or PCI/AGP slots, but it's weird to me that I
have only one choice! Any idea from Jay or other people? Thanks!

--Eric

Yuan (Eric) He
The University of Kansas

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of Jay Beavers
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 6:16 PM
To: richardc at cs.utah.edu; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Video boards...

I am using 1x NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS AGP and 3x NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI
cards in one display machine under Windows XP.

There is currently a bug in the NVIDIA GeForce driver for Windows that
causes a subset of boards to be recognized upon boot.  Rebooting the
machine (many times in the case of four boards) will eventually result
in all boards being recognized.  I have filed a bug report with the
NVIDIA team and it is scheduled for fix in the near future.

 - jcb

-----Original Message-----
From: richardc at cs.utah.edu [mailto:richardc at cs.utah.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:51 PM
To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: [AG-TECH] Video boards...


Hi all,

Has anyone gotten a GeForce MX AGP and PCI cards to work as a video 
display machine? How about ATI Radeon?

Curious,
Richard C.
SCI Institute