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First post, by cnpr

Posted on 2017-08-08, 00:33

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Hello again, I recently bought 2 pci video cards. i'm using the same motherboard gigabyte ga586hx. the video cards are a tnt2 m64 and a geforce 2mx 400. the motherboard wines about "no video card"error with the tnt2 and with the geforce 2, I get nothing at all. I tested both of these in my slot 1 pentium 3 after that and both worked ok. I have read on a previous post here it could be a pci version mismatch which I suspect from the geforce 2. If neither are incompatible. what cards will work(besides voodoo) in this motherboard? forgot my chipset is a 430hx.

Reply 1 of 7, by lazibayer

Posted on 2017-08-08, 01:31

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Does your board work with other PCI video cards?

Reply 2 of 7, by cnpr

Posted on 2017-08-08, 14:27

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Yes, the only card that works is the s3 trio64 2mb card. I don't have any others beyond these three.

Reply 3 of 7, by elod

Posted on 2017-08-08, 19:39

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I do have a Shuttle HX board and can test a 5200 based Quadro in it. The board came with a Tseng ET6000 so that definetely works fine.

Reply 4 of 7, by cnpr

Posted on 2017-08-09, 00:35

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been looking at a matrox millenium g200 to put into the pc. Is this a good card from a compatibility standpoint? Also are Ati rages and early radeon cards are good with compatibility?

Reply 5 of 7, by elod

Posted on 2017-08-09, 19:53

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Matrox yes, ATI Radeon is too new, Rage could work. There's also the Mach64 on PCI that works for sure. Not better than the S3 Virges.

Reply 6 of 7, by lazibayer

Posted on 2017-08-10, 18:00

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With respect to the choice of cards I assume the OP is trying to run 3D games on a 430HX board? G200, Rage Pro, Verite 2x00 and Riva128 are more periodically correct and they should work. Riva128 should be the fastest in OpenGL and I heard Verite 2x00 is quite slow in DOS.
Speaking of PCI compatibility... 430HX supports PCI 2.1 and most TNT2 PCI cards I saw are keyed to fit either 3.3V or 5V slot. In reality I once sold a TNT PCI over ebay and the buyer complained about incompatibility. My friend had a TNT2 PCI and it doesn't work with his new PCI-E based motherboard. G550 PCI won't work on P5A but G450 PCI works on it without a problem. So I don't know what caused the problem.

Reply 7 of 7, by cnpr

Posted on 2017-08-10, 22:06

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The tnt2 m64 card i have has keys on both ends and the geforece only had a 5v key. I ordered a rage pro 128 32mb pci which is diablo tech hopefully that works.

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