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Thread ID: 37597	2003-09-12 04:40:00	TNT2 and monitor detection	bmason (508)	Press F1

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174733	2003-09-12 04:40:00	hi all, I've just installed a TNT2 graphics card in my old system. Having finally discovered the "sellotape trick" to get it to accept nividia cards. The problem is windows no longer detects my monitor and the driver doesn't help. So its stuck at 60Hz. I found no mention of this problem on google of nvidia's site. Although they did link to a util that will force it to a usable refresh rate. Does anyone know if this a common problem for nvidia cards of this age? Or is it a sideeffect of the sellotape trick?	bmason (508)
174734	2003-09-12 04:42:00	Oh yeah, its windows 98se BTW. But it looks like DDC is broken because both linux and a windows DDC test program failed.	bmason (508)
174735	2003-09-12 05:55:00	Im guessing you've downloaded the 45.23 drivers? Its PCI, isnt it? Are you sure that its not one of those motherboards that shares the IRQ's between certain PCI Slots? Try swapping where its plugged in and see if that works...	Chilling_Silently (228)
174736	2003-09-12 05:55:00	BTW - What's the Sellotape trick? Google turns up nothing?	Chilling_Silently (228)
174737	2003-09-13 02:49:00	> Im guessing you've downloaded the 45.23 drivers? Yep. Tried the oldest version they had too, 28.x. I haven;t had too much experience with nvidias drivers. I wonder of something older would fix it. The manufacturer (gigabyte) just has "coming soon" for drivers (yeah right). > Its PCI, isnt it? Are you sure that its not one of > those motherboards that shares the IRQ's between > certain PCI Slots? Try swapping where its plugged in > and see if that works... Its AGP. I hadn't though of IRQs. It was sharing with the SB live and NIC (3c905). I've moved the soundcard which didn't fix it. Will [physically] move the NIC when find the damn screw driver.	bmason (508)
174738	2003-09-13 03:07:00	Certain craptacular motherboards (eg Biostar M6TBA) based on the BX chipset (and maybe others) don't work right with some AGP cards. Its something to do with AGP 2x support. TNT2 cards will stop the system from POSTing. Geforce2 cards freeze the system when the driver is installed. The work around is to put a bit of sellotape over the last two contacts on the card, one on each side, to break the connection. It supposedly forces the card to run at AGP 1x. Although I don't think thats quite what it does. I'm still hunting intel.com for what the connections actually do. In the mean time, counterstrike is much easier with a crosshair :-).	bmason (508)
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