ABIT KG-7 AGP VGA CARD LOCKUPS IN WIN2K

[trix1210]

Hi Guys;

Am I right in thinking that an AGP video card tells your pc which memory range it wants to use when you plug it in to your pc? Is this information hard coded?

I have a Pine PV-TO7L-CR V5.2 NVIDIA GEFORCE2 MX200 64M AGP card which is reporting hardware conflicts on my motherboard.

The reason I ask is that I have tried 3 different AGP video cards in my ABIT KG7-RAID Motherboard and windows 2000 reports that there is a conflict with the PCI bridge in device manager and so I cannot get the vga cards' drivers installed or make the card work.

I installed WIN2K on a new hard disk and didnt install ANY VIA 4-IN-1 drivers for the pci bus (microsoft installed its own via drivers) and the conflict appeared.

I installed the latest VIA-4-IN-1 drivers and the conflict still appeared.

I flashed my ABIT KG-7 bios with the latest bios and the conflict still appeared.

There are no other cards in the pc except the pine vga card.

Only one of the 3 AGP video cards I have tried (a matrox 8 meg agp card) seems to work fine (it uses a different memory range to the rest) but its only got 8 meg ram on it.

So how will I know which decent 64meg AGP video card I can buy that will not give a conflict so I can play some games on my win2k pc?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

trixy.

 

[paparazi]

It may have something to do with the fact that the Abit KG7 has a combination motherboard chipset:
AMD761 Northbridge combined with a Via 686B south
Download the appropriate drivers from Abits site see:

http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webj...PRODUCT_TYPE=MotherBoard&pMODEL_NAME=KG7-RAID

You might need to reinstall W2K and then install the proper motherboard drivers, NOT Via 4 in 1's ***
Martin

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[trix1210]

Thanks for your advice mate - Ill let you know how it went !

Trixy