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gigabyte 5ax-rev5.2 sux in windows2000!

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First post, by noshutdown

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cpu: k63-450, k62+550
videocard tested: geforce256 and rage128pro
ali agp and ide driver installed

lots of agp trouble

for geforce256, old drivers(23.11 and older) refuses to enable agp mode and runs in pci mode only, with no known method to turn it on.

using drivers newer than 23.11(i tried 28.32 and 30.82), i can use the "enablealiagp" registry command to turn agp mode on, but then i must disable onboard cache to boot windows(which appears to have only 2-3% impact on performance anyways), or it gives a bsod during loading. even with onboard cache disabled, d3d games/benchmarks still crashes easily, and opengl icd always stop responding whenever accessing it, including just checking icd info in everest.

then i turned to ati cards(which is hateful cause i am loyal fan of nvidia) which gave just slightly less trouble. agp mode is on, but still crashes easily in 3d games and watching video with onboard cache on. again the only workaround is to disable onboard cache, and it managed to pass a few tests without being seen crashing yet.

the only good thing is that at least it solved the previous problem of incorrectly detecting cpu frequency.

Reply 1 of 2, by ratfink

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Is there any particular reason you need to use 2000 on that board? I used to use a ga5ax with 98 and it ran these cards with no issue at all: GF2 Ti, S3 Trio, Matrox G200.

Reply 2 of 2, by noshutdown

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yeah i had also tried it with win98 before, which didn't had many issues , but there are some reasons not using it:

1.its rather unstable for most of today's applications, even including viewing web pages. attempting to close a program that has stopped responding would most likely lead to bsod and have to reboot, unlike in 2000 you can just close the thread in taskmgr.
2.most applications won't run on 98 today, so i dunno what i can do in it.
3.windowsupdate for 98 is down, making it even more buggy.
4.98 is not really essential for most games. dos games shall run in dos, and most win32 games would run in 2000 aswell.

well i still have win98 on one rig, a pentium3-s 1.4g, but only intended to benchmark old video cards that has no 3d driver for 2000, such as rendition v1000 and riva128.

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