Specifications

such as the VIA 133mhz chipsets.
However, it is still possible that you will not be able to enable AGP2X on a Stepping 5+ motherboard without
problems.
The 5.22+ drivers may help AGP2X instability problems for Athlon users.
Don't worry yourself too much about being able to enable AGP2X as the performance increase from AGP1X to
AGP2X is only minimal, and even then the increase is only significant in games that have to use AGP memory
in order to run - most games can simply load all their textures into the on board video RAM, in which case you
will only see a speedup when the textures are loaded initially at the start of the game.
All users with AMD chipset based motherboards should also install AMD's latest AGP Miniport Driver. You
can get download it at the following webpage:
http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/bin/
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Q. What's all this with the original GeForce and motherboards not supplying enough power?
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Some motherboards do not meet the AGP 2.0 specification, which means that they do not supply enough
power to the GeForce card. In the case of LX and BX motherboards this is because they use linear
voltage regulators which do not supply enough power. This can cause instability problems. It also
appears that it can cause TV-OUT to stop working (see the 'TV-OUT is greyed out on my TV-OUT
capable GeForce. How can I fix it?
' question). Unfortunately the only way to see if your motherboard will
work is to try it out, or ask if anyone has your motherboard and can successfully use the GeForce on it. It
is also possible that a BIOS update will be able to fix this problem.
The GeForce2 series does not have this problem to such an extent because it uses a 0.18 micron
architecture that requires less power.
If your motherboard supports being able to increase the I/O voltage of the motherboard in the BIOS, you
can also increase this value slightly to fix the problem.
You may also be able to help this problem by forcing AGP1X. See the 'How can I force AGP1X to be
used instead of AGP2X or AGP4X?' question for more information.
You may be able to fix this by removing some of your PCI cards if you have a lot installed.
Since the LX motherboards are the ones which have the problem most, below there is a list of LX
motherboards that WILL work with the GeForce (although it's not definitive). Below that is a list of LX,
BX and Via 133 motherboards that MAY exhibit problems - if you can add to any of these lists, please
email me.
LX motherboards that
can
support the GeForce:
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Intel AL440LX
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Biostar M6TLA
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AOpen AX6L (with BIOS update)
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QDI Legend I (with BIOS update)
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QDI Legend V (with BIOS update)
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Shuttle Hot 637 (with BIOS update)
LX motherboards that
cannot
support the GeForce:
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QDI say that all of their LX motherboards will not officially support the GeForce.
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Abit LX6 (there is a fix for the Abit LX6, but it requires rewiring. See the 'How can I get my Abit
LX6, ASUS P2L97 or Gigabyte 6BXC, 6BXE or BX2000 working with the GeForce?' question in
this FAQ)
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