Need help for old system..........

[MikeyM3a]

I have an old homebuilt system that has me confused.

I have a soyo mobo, kt880, and it does not like any ati cards over 9200. Oh, they work for plain computing, but, when I try and play any games, the system locks. I have all the latest ati drivers. And, yes, I removed all the old ones. But, this board doesn't seem to want to work with these video cards.

I know that the system is obsolete, but, it is what I have, and it works, for the most part. Until I can afford an update, I have to try and make do. I am presently running Win2k, an AMD 2800+, 768 megs pc3200, 80gig hdd, ati 9200(presently), Audigy sound, and a 500watt psu.

Any suggestions, out there?

Thanks, Mikey

[ElrichMeister]

hmm thats weird, did u try reinstalling windows and starting fresh, for different video cards, how about u try flashing the bios of the mobo to a newer verison

[therealwesty]

It could be something to do with BIOS settings as well. Here's a few things to check/try;

-disable fast write.
-Disable VGA pallet snoop.
-Make sure the AGP frequency is on 66MHz
-Manually set the AGP rate to 4x or 8x depending on the card.
-Check the AGP voltage, perhaps even step it up one notch.
-Make sure the PCI resource allocatin is set to automatic.

Also, are you overclocking at all? The Via chipsets don't have a working AGP/PCI lock, so if you FSB isn't running at one of the preset default levels the AGP/PCI bus will also be overclocked. Might not hurt just to set the BIOS to the default settings and see what happens.

[MikeyM3a]

Thanks for the replys, guys. I had thought about updating the bios, but wanted an opinion on that. Westy, I am running a bit high, 2248mhz, according to WCPUID. I will give it a try and see what happens. I had not considered that the overclock would interfere with the video card. Interesting.

Mikey

[yahooadam]

yes

On older motherboards teh FSB frequency determined the frequency of the entire PC

nowadays there are seperate clocks for each thing so that increasing the FSB doesnt overclock other components

i dont think u can get much higher then +100 mhz without it going unstable on the other resorces