9600 Voltage

[tarast]

Could someone tell me what the agp voltage requirement for the ATI 9600 is? I just replaced my motherboard, and my video card does not work anymore. I am afraid that this is the problem.

Thank you

 

[Dirty_Harry2]

There is rarely a voltage problem with any MOBO and AGP card, what psu do you have, although it should be enough. I ran my old 9600 XT All in Wonder on a 250 watt PSU.

The 9600 might just be bad.

 

[tarast]

The 9600 isnt bad, cause I put my old moboard in, and thats what I am running right now.

My understanding is that there are two different voltages for AGP. 3.3 and 1.6. Is this correct?

If its not the card, could the AGP slot in the moboard be bad?

 

[4745454b]

The voltages that you are referring to are called "signaling voltages." This is the voltage signal that the motherboard and video card send to each other so that they know they are compatible. They are 3.3V (original AGP/2x), 1.5V (4x) and .8 (8x). You shouldn't have to worry about the signaling voltage, because if the card fits in the slot, then it will work on that motherboard. Each AGP slot is notched in a different way so that you can't fit an 8x card into a 2x slot.

The AGP slot on the "new" motherboard could be bad, or you might be having an issue setting up the new board. The new motherboard might even have a good AGP slot, but a bad memory slot or a broken CPU socket. Try getting it to run with an old PCI card. If that fails, then return the new motherboard.

 

[tarast]

Perfect! That was exactly the type of answer I was looking for. I am pretty sure the 9600 is at least a 4x, so I should be ok there.

I have a spare PCI card that I will try.

Thank you so much for your answers.

 

[4745454b]

The 9600 is an 8x/4x card. It will/should work in any motherboard supporting 8x or 4x operation. This includes any older motherboards that support 4x/2x, as it should work in 4x mode.

 

[Crashman]

The 9600 series is keyed for 1.5V and works with both 1.5V and 0.8V signal voltages. It doesn't work with extremely old 3.3V boards, but it won't even fit those anyway because the key is different.