I am hearing a lot of probs with GeForce 2 MX cards on recent Athlon-based motherboards - from what I can tell so far, it is perhaps a BIOS update issue, probably AGP interface related? Once the BIOS gets updated, the reported probs (usually hanging/freezing) go away - <font color=red>can anyone else confirm this or otherwise?</font color=red>
<font color=green>(I have even been told not to buy a GeForce2MX card with an AMD based motherboard by a large computer system retailer here in Queensland, Australia)</font color=green>
It doesn't help that every review of GeForce 2 MX cards I've seen here in TomsHardware have been done on Pentium III test setups. :frown:
If only this issue could be addressed by the TomsHardware people with all the test systems and components at their disposal, rather than having everyone here in the forums individually bring forward their seemingly unrelated problems, without the common thread being identified!
I realise that there are also power probs with some setups, but I hear that some problems are not just to do with the power supply unit itself, but with the AGP slot power supply, which is why some motherboards now have the AGP-Pro slot to adequately power the high-drain graphics cards. And that doesn't seem to be the issue in this case anyway, because I'm talking about 250W and 300W systems with AGP-Pro slots. They just happen to be AMD cpus, and Geforce 2 MX graphics cards.
Some users have been running on AGP 1x or 2x to get around some of the more constant hanging, but that's not a real solution. It really only points more towards the AGP interface and/or driver being the problem.
And the problem also doesn't seem to be graphics card driver related - they are apparently running latest drivers...
<font color=blue>I'll be extremely grateful if anyone can give me the name of a working setup with AMD cpu and Geforce 2 MX card - if you can, please tell me the name of the motherboard model, BIOS revision, and the 2 MX card vendor and model.</font color=blue>
Thanks!
<font color=green>(I have even been told not to buy a GeForce2MX card with an AMD based motherboard by a large computer system retailer here in Queensland, Australia)</font color=green>
It doesn't help that every review of GeForce 2 MX cards I've seen here in TomsHardware have been done on Pentium III test setups. :frown:
If only this issue could be addressed by the TomsHardware people with all the test systems and components at their disposal, rather than having everyone here in the forums individually bring forward their seemingly unrelated problems, without the common thread being identified!
I realise that there are also power probs with some setups, but I hear that some problems are not just to do with the power supply unit itself, but with the AGP slot power supply, which is why some motherboards now have the AGP-Pro slot to adequately power the high-drain graphics cards. And that doesn't seem to be the issue in this case anyway, because I'm talking about 250W and 300W systems with AGP-Pro slots. They just happen to be AMD cpus, and Geforce 2 MX graphics cards.
Some users have been running on AGP 1x or 2x to get around some of the more constant hanging, but that's not a real solution. It really only points more towards the AGP interface and/or driver being the problem.
And the problem also doesn't seem to be graphics card driver related - they are apparently running latest drivers...
<font color=blue>I'll be extremely grateful if anyone can give me the name of a working setup with AMD cpu and Geforce 2 MX card - if you can, please tell me the name of the motherboard model, BIOS revision, and the 2 MX card vendor and model.</font color=blue>
Thanks!