Which models of AGP cards have you tried with this board? Apollo MVP3 chipset is known for not so good AGP...

Should be 1000uF 6.3v, or, more exactly, the same value as TC17.

PcBytes wrote on 2026-01-01, 00:42:

Should be 1000uF 6.3v, or, more exactly, the same value as TC17.

Thanks a lot !

zami555 wrote on 2025-12-31, 13:45:

Which models of AGP cards have you tried with this board? Apollo MVP3 chipset is known for not so good AGP...

Yes, I know they are quite bad.
I tried a TNT2 M64, a GF 4 MX440, and an Ati 8500 DV.
This computer also has a Voodoo2, so I would not really need to have a good AGP card. I could just use a modern Ati Rage XL PCI, it works well too after a 3.3 volt mod.
But the AX59-Pro only has 4 PCI slots, and I use all of them. 2940 scsi, Voodoo2, network card and Vortex sound card.
I don't have any Isa sound card ...
So I have no other choice than use a AGP card. Not really for the 3D performance, the Voodoo2 works better with the slow K6-2 550, but just to have a display.

You could combine glide and 2D with a voodoo3 or banshee, that would even open another PCI slot and also 3DFX AGP cards don't seem to trigger AGP issues on super socket 7 boards

AOpen AX59 Pro and its AGP is working fine on its limits.I have used Geforce2/3/Rage128Pro/RageXL/RagePro and some other AGP cards.
Pain was finding chipset dirvers for it and maybe AOpen board has different revisions. No need to use PCI, use older & lower powered AGP.

NeoG_ wrote on 2026-01-01, 06:31:

You could combine glide and 2D with a voodoo3 or banshee

Sure. And I would prefer a Voodoo3 to any other card on this computer, but prices are crazy. And have been for years now.
Since I have health issue and can't work, I don't have money for this 😀

marxveix wrote on 2026-01-01, 08:29:

AOpen AX59 Pro and its AGP is working fine on its limits.I have used Geforce2/3/Rage128Pro/RageXL/RagePro and some other AGP cards.
Pain was finding chipset dirvers for it and maybe AOpen board has different revisions. No need to use PCI, use older & lower powered AGP.

I've tried several drivers for the Via, same for Nvidia and Ati 8500 cards, I think they are all a pain with Win98.
But Win2k and Linux Etch are very stable.
I like to use Etch because it's an old version, compatible with Glide and Loki games, but also modern enough to have a user friendly Gui and tools like gparted.

thats Via MVP3 fault, i have the same problems with a Soyo 5ehm 1.3

i had this very same Aopen back in 2000 BUT ran paired with a PA3000 M64, no wonder that combo did worked flawlessly. xD

I mean its pain to find right mvp3 chipset driver, it seems different boards or chipset revisions like different driver versions, still you have to select your grahpics card also carefully and it should match for the graphics card as well, not only chipset side, because of that one via4in1 or even only one agp driver is hard to recommend, its more like case by case solution, than one for all.