Your 3D problems are almost guaranteed to be driver problems.
Later nVidia drivers don't seem to play well with older OS's and games.
In general try to grab drivers that are only somewhat newer then the games you want to play =)

Your post is so serious xD. That card should run with the moded 8x.xx drivers. But those drivers might not work with the games you want to play, nevermind 6 series cards lack features present in gf2-3-4-5 series cards. Just becasue some dude on the internet got a gf 6 or 7 card to run on 98se doesn't mean that every game or even a lot of games work.

Yeah I've found NV drivers after 56.64 to be trouble with 440BX.

Thank you for the replies.
Please do not think about this or that game ok?
Let's not go into the particular case.

It is only a matter of capability here.

Let's keep it simple.
So let's assume that we want to run 3DMark2006 or a 100% compatibile D3D program (or game) on dx9 of course with WinXP.

I know about 56.64 drivers to be the last stable on 440bx, but I saw multiple users who used later drivers.

Please share your experience.

Wouldn't it be simplest to try the card with another motherboard with same OS and same driver version to see if it is issue with the motherboard or the chipset?

Edit: I was actually going to quickly test it with my 440BX motherboard, but unfortunately my Geforce 6600 is only for 1.5V AGP

Warlord wrote on 2020-11-24, 08:02:

Your post is so serious xD. That card should run with the moded 8x.xx drivers. But those drivers might not work with the games you want to play, nevermind 6 series cards lack features present in gf2-3-4-5 series cards. Just becasue some dude on the internet got a gf 6 or 7 card to run on 98se doesn't mean that every game or even a lot of games work.

Can you link to those modded drivers you refer to?

http://www.mdgx.com/files/NV8269.ZIP

Warlord wrote on 2020-11-24, 16:04:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/NV8269.ZIP

Is there a version for XP?
What's the mod?

6 and 7 series are natively supported on XP why would you need a modded driver for xp?

The point of the discussion is to find a proper combination of drivers to make a bridged agp card work on 440bx.

swaaye wrote on 2020-11-24, 08:08:

Yeah I've found NV drivers after 56.64 to be trouble with 440BX.

For once, I can add 7x.00 driver series don't play well with Aladdin and 440BX AGP northbridges. Tested with mobos I have (Zida and industrial BCMcom).

Guess I will have to wait a bit and dig myself on finding this combination.
But help would be appreciated from people of this very forum who successfully used any driver above 7x.xx with 440bx and XP (or whant to help).

I read that overheating of the HSI can be an issue for 3D immediate freezing.
Being feeded with 3.3v in this case I see it could possibly be the cause of immediate hang when starting 3D programs.

It is a brainstorming, feel free to share your thoughts.

Ok I am about to start testing with my 7600gs AGP.

Please feel free to suggest driver versions, even modded, to get it work in direct3D, windows XP.

The platform will be a p2b-d 1.06 with 2x Pentium 933mhz @100mhz fsb to minimize problems.

All right.
Here preliminary results.
My platform is a P2B-D with 2x Mendocino 500Mhz. (AGENT_007 suggested me to use Mendocino first)
VGA is a 7600GS AGP.
XP SP3

3dMark2001 has completed but with texture corruption, see screens.
Do not know if this is driver related, I started with the latest available.

Results pretty low.

There are corruptions in these two images.

Switch video card to either 2, 3, 4 or FX 5xxx for a testing.

Cheers,

pentiumspeed wrote on 2020-12-19, 15:14:

There are corruptions in these two images.

Switch video card to either 2, 3, 4 or FX 5xxx for a testing.

Cheers,

Ahemmm... The pourpose of this testing and discussion is something else....
Did you read the first post at all?

No offense of course.

Drivers 93.71.
Same texture corruption.

Again a low performance result, even if a bit higher.

It is a texture problem.
Some dx8 features are ok.
Do not know if this is fixable somehow thru nvidia control panel or not.

3Dmark 2003 gives bluescreen after Wings of Glory loading completion (nvdisp.dll error).

Trying to test a 9800pro but it results in no post at all.
One long beep, three short, VGA issue.
The card of course works in another system.
Strangely, even pci vga (5200 and Rage pro) does the same. VGA error.

Any advice?

Partial answer to myself.
The Rage pro works. The FX5200PCI is PCI 2.2 and the P2B-D is PCI 2.1, that is why it won't work.
Don'tknow why the 9800pro is not working, maybe it refuse to work with 3.3V even if it is properly keyed, but I remember I used it on a GA-5AX...

In any case, I think I have reached a final answer for this thread, a sad one.

the problem is not the VGA or the motherboard, it is inbetween.
It is the bridge.
For unknown reason there is no support for HSI bridge from AGP 2X chipsets (like 440Bx or socket7).
I do not know if it is an electrical problem but I doubt it, the 7600GS was happily working and was really cold, no overheating.
It is driver related.

Very sad.

If someone wants to add something, would be welcome.