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  • Info for anyone having G400 AGPx2 problems

    I was getting lockups and wierd screen redraws whilst using corel photopaint and adobe photoshop, and the occasional lockup when starting games. I thought I had fixed it by reseating the G400 in the agp slot, but this was shortlived, the only fix was to force AGPx1 mode. Finally I changed my 200W psu for a 250W and after extensive testing I cannot reproduce a lockup.
    Conclusion: either the G400 requires alot of power in AGPx2 mode or my old psu was too "noisy". I lean towards the former as my old G200 worked fine in AGPx2.
    Hope this may be of use to someone,
    RobP

  • #2
    I have the same problems with AGP 1x and 2X.
    What's your mobo configuration ?

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    • #3
      Abit BX6 mp bios
      PII 333 @ 4x100(pre multiplier lock)
      128Mb

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      • #4
        It's that Abit board producing the noise, but it may be dependant on your power supply since it seems to have fixed your problem.

        No such problems on Asus BX boards ...

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        • #5
          Don't think it's the fault of Abit motherboards in general personally. Though there may be issues with this particular board. I've used the G400 on a series of different Abit boards (BH6, BX6 r.2, and BE6)and not had problems with AGP 2X, unless I created the problem with "tweaks" to the system. Then to get the registry 'reset" I'd have to perform a clean reinstall. :-(
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          • #6
            I have AGP2x problem too. I have to force it to AGP1x for stable operation. My board is Abit BX6 2.0, Celeron 300A @ 527, generic 250W powersupply. I believe it should be that G400 requires lot of power since if I disconnect my 2nd HDD gives a little more stability when I was running AGP2x
            I want the T&L in my G400!

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            • #7
              Abitbx6 r2.0 and no problems at all, I have a nice 300 watt power supply, pIII500 o/c to 560, w98se (very tweaked). Adaptec2940U2W, blah blah blah.
              Asus K7V
              Athlon 700
              128mb PC133 HSDRAM
              Matrox Millennium g400max
              Adaptec 2940U2W
              IBM 9gb U2W
              Plextor 8/20 cdr
              Diamond MX300
              3com 905b-tx

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              • #8
                I too have a BX6 (rev 1) bios MP and I always got agp 2x both with G200 and G400.

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                • #9
                  I recently picked up a "cheapo" 300watt ps to replace the 250watt one that came with my "not so cheap" case only to find that it wouldn't run at 620mhz any more and was very unstable, since putting back the 250, no more probs, SPEND THE BUCKS AND GET A GOOD ONE!
                  jim

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                  PIII-500mhz @ 620 ! with an Abit BE6 mobo
                  128mb pc-100
                  Mill G400 (YAHOO!!!) 32mb @ 167/208 with MGATweak-417mhz, (2.5, 2, 2.5), PD 5.41 & bios 1.5-22
                  Maxtor 14.3 gb Uata66 hdd
                  SB Live!
                  Winblows 98se & DX7
                  32 lbs. of fans, heatsinks and aluminum ductwork
                  3DMark Result 5954.69 3DMarks
                  Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9325.69 CPU 3DMarks
                  Rasterizer Score 2791.72 3DRasterMarks
                  Game 1 - Race 65.07 FPS
                  Game 2 - First Person 54.89 FPS
                  Fill Rate 268.79 MTexels/s

                  System 1:
                  AMD 1.4 AYJHA-Y factory unlocked @ 1656 with Thermalright SK6 and 7k Delta fan
                  Epox 8K7A
                  2x256mb Micron pc-2100 DDR
                  an AGP port all warmed up and ready to be stuffed full of Parhelia II+
                  SBLIVE 5.1
                  Maxtor 40g 7,200 @ ATA-100
                  IBM 40GB 7,200 @ ATA-100
                  Pinnacle DV Plus firewire
                  3Com Hardware Modem
                  Teac 20/10/40 burner
                  Antec 350w power supply in a Colorcase 303usb Stainless

                  New system: Under development

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                  • #10
                    DuRaNgO,

                    I did. I just asked my friend who went back to Taiwan this winter break to bring me a 350W or 400W high quality powersupply. It costs a lot cheaper in Taiwan!

                    Nuno, patE

                    What kind of powersupply do you guys have?
                    I want the T&L in my G400!

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                    • #11
                      I´ve got a perfectly generic 235W (ouch) ATX ps. Not to many things to power, though: besides the board, cpu and 96 mb RAM, just a CD-rom, floppy, 1 HDD, G400, sb-live and a isa scsi scanner port.

                      I´ve got a celery 300A@450 2.2v for more than a year, never had a single problem.

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