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First post, by moawkwrd

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Hi,

I have an old Gateway G7-500 with an Intel WS440BX motherboard. I'm trying to use a GeForce 4 MX460 in it, but no matter what I do, I just get the long short short beeps.

I've tested the card in an older Pentium 2 machine and it works fine, and I've tested another card in this machine, and it works fine. I can't understand why this combination of card and motherboard wouldn't work?

I've tried resetting CMOS multiple times of course - does anyone have any other ideas of what I could try? Otherwise I'll have to get another DirectX 7 card.

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Reply 2 of 8, by moawkwrd

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derSammler wrote:

GeForce 4 MX460 is a 8x card (0.8 V) whereas the BX chipset only supports AGP 1.0 with 3.3V. While the GeForce 4 MX460 can also work with 4x (1.5V), it can not work with 3.3V.

But it works in a Pentium 2 machine with a Supermicro P6SBS motherboard with the BX chipset?

I think you're getting confused with the later MX440-8X cards. I'm pretty sure the MX460 uses the NV17 chipset with AGP 4x. In fact I'm pretty sure I've had it working with this motherboard before when I first got it, but for some reason it's just not working now.

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Reply 4 of 8, by moawkwrd

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I have recently swapped the PSU that came with the Gateway from a smelly Powertech unit to a cleaner Asetec version, so I'll try swapping that back out.

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Reply 5 of 8, by moawkwrd

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No luck. Same beeps. I think I'll just order cheap MX or a GeForce 2, it's not worth me faffing about with when they're so cheap. As a last resort I'm going to check that my Radeon 9100 works okay in this machine (the other card I tested was a lowly Rage Turbo Pro AGP).

This card does have a dodgy fan too (and an annoying 3 pin vga fan connector).

EDIT: Radeon 9100 works fine in it. How odd.

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Reply 6 of 8, by Baoran

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Perhaps it is a power issue since radeon 9100 is much less power hungry than geforce 4 cards are. Perhaps it is just not getting enough power through the agp bus on that motherboard. That is only thing I can think of.

Reply 7 of 8, by stamasd

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Baoran wrote:

Perhaps it is a power issue since radeon 9100 is much less power hungry than geforce 4 cards are. Perhaps it is just not getting enough power through the agp bus on that motherboard. That is only thing I can think of.

I don't think that's it. I had for a long time a GF4Ti4200 in a BX motherboard and it worked just fine. Granted it was the original AGP 4X one, not the later AGP 8x.

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Reply 8 of 8, by moawkwrd

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If anything I think the Radeon 9100 is more power hungry than a GeForce 4 MX, surely?

I did test it with another PSU of higher wattage anyway - same issue. I've ordered an MX440 for £5 anyway to test. If that works it must just be something with this card and this board, even though it works in my older and newer machines.

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