G4MX440-T on K7T266 Pro

This is a strange one.
This VGA card works on an ASUS P4B533 and on an MS-6309. BUT...
fails to post on a K7T266 Pro Ver 1.0
and fails to post on a K7T266 Pro2 RU
A GF2MX400 works fine on both the 266's
I think I am getting mad......
the Two Failing systems were striped down to:
xp1800 CPU
512Mb DDR One stick
the offending card. GF4MX440-T
a 300w supply (same supply was used with the p4)
latest BIOS on all units.
Drivers irrelevent as no post....
any ideas...
anyone..

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Originally posted by Bergmania
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and does the mobo ms-6380 (k7t266 pro2) provide ENOUGH power to the AGP slot FOR the GF4 Ti 4200/4400/4600???
GeForce4 TI works.. the Geforce4 MX is a lemon anyways, get a GeForce3 or a Radeon 8500 instead..
I have to disagree, I had the oportunity to test the 8500 head to head against the GF4MX440 on both a
P4 1.6 and an XP1800+
the P4 was an 845 chipset and VIA266A for the AMD
the GF4MX left the ATI in the dust in both cases and at less $$$$ My suppliers show the lowest config of an 8500 to be about $175.00c and the GF4MX440 to be $125.00c there is only one GF3 still availible and its way outa reach 500+ some capture etc etc setup.
The 8500 has 128mb the GF4 64 and the ATI has a few more features in bump maping etc. but the GF4 beat its ass anyhow.
3dm scores:
P4 ATI8500=8752
P4 GF4MX440=9127
AMD ATI8500=9213
AMD GF4MX=10091
Systems both had 512-pc266-cas2
40 gig maxtor 7200
Win XP-Pro

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(Originally posted to wrong group)
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detailed description:
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http://www.martin555.dyndns.org/stop.jpg
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pardon me, dump? my english is not very perfect.. you mean to trow away, replace to something better, more stable power supply, more powerful?
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Hello everyone,
I was gone for a few days, but when I got home I was very happy to see some more posts to this thread!!
Last night I tried disabling the SoundBlaster (with the Windows System Device Manager). I disabled both the sound card and the game port. The modem was still disconnecting.
Until now I hadn't heard of Via chipsets and SoundBlasters not getting along well with each other either. I had, however, previously tried another sound card - it was an older Diamond Monster card I had, but I couldn't find a WinXP driver for it. It didn't work well at all with WinXP. So back to the SoundBlaster Live! 5.1.
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Hi!
Really, I don't think this could be a hardware problem since WinXp takes more than few minutes to install, and you did it, then you installed drivers and SP1. Why did you format HD in the other PC ? I would try a new install, taking out all not necesary stuff, leaving only CPU, memory and video card and formatting again the HD. for a clean install; then go adding the other hardware one by one, installing it's drivers and rebooting each time. Finally before connecting to internet enable Firewall to prevent Blaster Worm ( Don't know if still is going around ). One thing: Be sure HD is well connected and configured: Master if is a slave conected to same wire..etc.- If again you get an error, I would look for a faulty HD. 8)

CPU Temps K7T266 Pro

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The V1 board is very old and only a few have been sold a long time ago and was quickly replaced when the problem was discovered.

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