First post, by viper32cm
I am building a Pentium 200Mhz system to run DOS, 1995-97 Windows, and early 3d-accelerated games that do not run properly on my PIII 1Ghz with a GeForce Ti4200 8x AGP. For the video card, I decided to use a TNT2 M64 for the sake of compatibility with the DOS games and what would seem like an overabundance of power for games no newer than the first Rainbow Six. The card I bought is a 16MB model that I believe was sold with Dell-branded systems through sometime in the very early 2000s. Unfortunately, the card does not work on my P200 system. Either the video is completely corrupted or fails to display on the screen at all. At first I thought it was a problem with the card, but the card runs fine in my PIII system, so the problem has to be something with my P200 system. But what?
My two theories at the moment are:
1. Lack of sufficient power. The power supply is an original AT unit with 150 watts. I can't imagine the system draws a lot of power with the standard components installed, but maybe the power supply has lost some capability over the years.
2. Some unknown incompatibility. Either the card can't talk with my motherboard due to age (the P200 system is running a circa 1995-96 motherboard) or there is something about the Dell card that requires a Dell motherboard (my PIII motherboard is Dell branded). This seems unlikely, but who knows.
Any ideas on what I should do? Is there another card I should try?
