Specifications

compatibility problem between this motherboard and certain manufacturer's GeForce2 cards. It will not
cost you anything in labour and component charges but you will have to pay for P&P to and from Abit.
Contact Abit for more information.
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If you have a ASUS P3V4X, follow the instructions in the 'I have an ASUS P3V4X motherboard and I
have instability problems with the GeForce. How can I fix it?' question.
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Switching your monitor on before you switch on your PC may also help with this problem.
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Q. I (occasionally or always) get less than 32MB of video RAM reported when I first switch
on my PC. What's up?
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Try slightly changing your FSB speed.
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Make sure that you are using a powerful enough power supply. See the 'How powerful should my power
supply be in order to use the GeForce? question for more information.
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You can find a link for a BIOS that may fix this problem for the Creative Annihilator Pro in the 'Are
there any newer Video BIOS upgrades for the Annihilator?' question.
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You may want to replace the card even if this does help: this problem may also be a bad solder joint on
one of the memory chips that causes problems occasionally or all the time.
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Q. When I put my GeForce card in my Adaptec AHA-39160 SCSI card doesn't detect any
devices. How can I fix it?
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Try disabling the SCSI BIOS on your card if you don't need it. You only need it enabled if you actually
boot off the SCSI device.
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You may need an updated SCSI BIOS for your AHA-
39160 card. The version you need is 2.57.2 or later.
You can download the BIOS from Adaptec's site.
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Q. Windows locks up before it finishes loading, and a thin green line may appear across the
top of the screen. How can I fix it?
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This may be caused by the Backup utility supplied with Windows 9x/ME attempting to detect new tape
devices on boot. You can fix it by deleting the files drvwppqt.vxd and drvwq117.vxd in the
Windows\System\Iosubsys directory. If this helps, then search for the string 'TAPEDETECT' in your
registry and delete any entries that exist. If you find this causes your tape drive to stop working, you'll
have to reinstall Microsoft Backup. You can also simply uninstall Microsoft Backup if you don't use it.
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Try updating the motherboard's BIOS. In particular on some Gigabyte boards based on the VIA KT133
chipset this may fix the problem. See the following page for more information:
http://www.giga-byte.com/faq/question/question_kt133.htm
This may also fix the problem on ASUS A7V motherboards - upgrade the BIOS to version 1004C or
later.
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You may find that on motherboards that are only AGP 1.0 compliant you may be able to fix this problem
by putting insulating tape over the last pair of contacts on the AGP connector on the GeForce card (the
contact furthest from the monitor port, on both sides). This has been tested on the Chaintech 6BTM
motherboard. You may find that once you have done this once you will be able to take the tape back off
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