First post, by Paar
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I have bought a Geforce 4 MX440 8X 128MB card from XpertVision for a very reasonable price. It's very nice card with Rubycon caps so the quality is there. I have heard that this is fundamentaly the greatest Geforce 2 you can find. What's more is it has a passive cooling so it can run quiet and efficient. Put it in my Tyan 1854 with Apollo Pro 133A chipset, installed drivers and unfortunately the card doesn't work. When Windows 98 gets loaded the picture is quite fuzzy and crawling and after few seconds the whole system freezes.
I've tried to update chipset drivers and tried to use older GPU drivers. The same issue. The AGP slot is set to 4x mode, even tried to mess with Driving value (afaik exclusive to VIA mobos) but I didn't know what I was doing so I stopped.
I've assumed all AGP 8X cards from NVidia are backward compatible with AGP 4x slots. Is there something I'm missing? Perhaps my board is too old for card from 2002? That would be unfortunate.