I thought it was common knowledge that there was big problems with AGP cards in super socket systems and that is just how it is. Most recommend voodoo 3 cards because they don't use any AGP features even when using agp version of the card.
a PCI card or voodoo 3 card is the way to go.
We survived 2000s because we were using Penium 2 or Pentium 3 by then and those generally work fine with agp cards.

Baoran wrote on 2020-03-20, 07:11:

I thought it was common knowledge that there was big problems with AGP cards in super socket systems and that is just how it is. Most recommend voodoo 3 cards because they don't use any AGP features even when using agp version of the card.
a PCI card or voodoo 3 card is the way to go.
We survived 2000s because we were using Penium 2 or Pentium 3 by then and those generally work fine with agp cards.

Woa...

It is not so bad to play with MVP3 and AGP, trust me.
It is possible that your motherboard has issues, for what I can read, it is highly the case.
None of the card you are using should cause any major trouble if you stay under 100MHz of FBS, assuming via 4in1 are installed and everything is ok for other components.
Could you see if this problem occurs at 66MHZ of FSB also? Downclock you CPU.
It is better for the tests to use a normal HD rather than any sort of adapter.
You never know.

Edit: I saw you already played with clocks.
Do you tried to lower agp to 1x andd or change agp aperture size?
My bet is on a faulty motherboard.
Never had such troubles with nvidia cards, pre FX in special, with socket7 systems
It must be something wrong with your MB.

From my experience agp is quite unstable and there can be big differences even between motherboards using the same chipset and it can be increased if some of the capacitors on the motherboard are in not so great condition. Even the psu can affect how well some cards work from my experience of changing psu in one of my super socket 7 systems in the past.

Mamba wrote on 2020-03-20, 09:38:

Never had such troubles with nvidia cards, pre FX in special, with socket7 systems
It must be something wrong with your MB.

While that may be the case, it is indeed common knowledge that early non-Intel AGP chipsets don't play nice with AGP cards and are very temperamental. Sure though, 20+ years can certainly cause capacitors to go bad f or example, but there are countless cases of people having issues with ATi, Nvidia, Matrox and all sorts of AGP cards on these boards both from way back then on Usenet and Anandtech/Tom's Hardware/etc forums and even nowadays on Vogons. 3Dfx or PCI cards are suggested for greater stability. Any reason in particular you want an NVidia card in there though?

In all honesty, a K6-2 400 is probably around the ballpark of a PII 233 or 266 in terms of gaming performance and as such, that TNT2 is wasted in there. Even a single Voodoo2 would have no problem saturating that CPU. If the Radeon card produced no issues, then it may be a good alternative, although I am somewhat cautious of ATi drivers from that era 😀.

Thank you for all your kind feedback.
Just a side note, the I have already recapped the whole Rhino mainboard few weeks ago.
Yes I have tried messing around AGP settings in BIOS, to no avail.
I will be fiddling around some more but from what you describe, it will likely be hit-and-miss until something eventually somewhat works...

A bit off topic, but did you know the octek rhino mvp3-at was identical to the dfi P5BV3+ ?

Guys,
I am aware that agp is far from perfect on via chipset.
But what the OP describes frankly is absolutely not common behaviour.

I insist, there is something wrong in the motherboard.

Never ever experienced something like that, apart when the motherboard was the problem.

Could you look into the possibility to cross flash with the DFI bios?
This possibility seems intriguing and you should really check this.
Have you a programmer just in case?

And, are you using a atx psu?

http://www.yjfy.com/O/OCTEK/mainboard/Rhino_MVP3-AT.htm

SS7 DFI VIA P5BV3+ mobo, basic info.

The only difference is the amount of l2 cache (or l3 if you will install a plus chip), from a superficial analisys.

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Could you look into the possibility to cross flash with the DFI bios?
This possibility seems intriguing and you should really check this.
Have you a programmer just in case?

And, are you using a atx psu?

I did not find the BIOS updates anywhere for download actually for this board.
And even if I did, I have no programmer, unfortunately,

I am using an ATX PSU through ATX-to-AT adapter...

Lol, I have a DFI P5BV3+ and it is an absolute mess of a board. I've had stability issues even with PCI cards, so I can totally relate to the OP here.

Garrett W wrote on 2020-03-20, 13:01:

Lol, I have a DFI P5BV3+ and it is an absolute mess of a board. I've had stability issues even with PCI cards, so I can totally relate to the OP here.

Oh well,

if it is the case, coupled with the fact that you don't have a programmer, the crossflash could be too risky.
Bios updates I am sure can be found if you want to try.

http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm (find the DFI P5BV3+), there are 3 different versions of this beta BIOS. One for each Rev (A, B, or C) of this board. You should check which one is the closest to yours. I wuld exclude A since it has EDO slots. Maybe it is the C.
Link is broken, here the good one (go to the DFI bioses) ftp://ftp.spez.com.ua/driver/mb/via/

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/816826/Dfi- … lus.html#manual

I see there are different revisions for the MB, just like the DFI counterpart. Which one is your? Is it up to date from bios side?

Again, are you using an ATX PSU properly? I see that there should be even an ATX power connector close to the AT one, so you definitely should get rid of the adapter.

Well the thing is, octek's bios is identical to dfi's. On mine I flashed the latest bios modded to support k6-2/3+ CPUs and it works perfectly.

I suspect that octek was one of DFI's subsidiary. The only difference there is, is just a sticker saying octek on the chipset.

Deksor wrote on 2020-03-20, 14:55:

Well the thing is, octek's bios is identical to dfi's. On mine I flashed the latest bios modded to support k6-2/3+ CPUs and it works perfectly.

I suspect that octek was one of DFI's subsidiary. The only difference there is, is just a sticker saying octek on the chipset.

It is your call,
But if I were in you, I would try the crossflash.
I don't see why it should not work, the mb are the same.
And you could put a k6 plus chip, a very nice boost.

That's what I did ^^

I flashed DFI's bios (modded by someone) on my "octek", and it worked.

Deksor wrote on 2020-03-20, 16:44:

That's what I did ^^

I flashed DFI's bios (modded by someone) on my "octek", and it worked.

I was referring to the OP.
Could you confirm the version you flashed?
A B or C?
Did you have the same revision of the OP?

It's REV C

i don't know which rev the op have. We'll see.

Deksor wrote on 2020-03-20, 18:41:

It's REV C

i don't know which rev the op have. We'll see.

So you had a mvp3-at rev b+ and flashed the dfi bios rev "c", correct?
Could you upload it?

No I think my board is equivalent to dfi's p5bv3+ rev c, I just flashed the modded bios which is for I don't know which board

Deksor wrote on 2020-03-20, 22:34:

No I think my board is equivalent to dfi's p5bv3+ rev c, I just flashed the modded bios which is for I don't know which board

I fail to understand... You flashed the modded bios, ok.
And what motherboard you have (originally)?
Could you upload that bios?