First post, by wirysage
Hi,
I have an early 440LX P2L97 v1.05 with the early model voltage regulators that are under rated for the AGP standard. This means that anything newer than a Riva 128 crashes when hardware acceleration causes big power draw. Reading vintage posts it's something to do with the fact that these early boards has voltage regulators that could only supply 5 amps on power draw and most cards after the RIVA 128 just cause it to restart.
I've tried Geforce 6200, Quadro 4 380XGL etc but they all do the same sort of thing crash at various stages of changing resolutions or booting. If you run Windows XP in VGA mode via F8 it never crashes. Apparently old forum posts say that the revision 2.05 of this mobo fixed this voltage regulator issue so most cards will work.
The question I have is, has anyone tried one of the late model AGP cards with early agp slot notch support but with a Molex or Burg connector? Would it help with this voltage regulator issue? I'd love to try it but paying $130 Australian for a rare 6600gt from the US with both power notches for a sketchy experiment is out of my budget. Anyone want to sell me anything cheap with a power connector that works and has both notches?