video issues with VIA chipset

[glw6160]

I recently upgraded my PC with an athlon motherboard and AMD Tbird 1.2 ghz CPU and a radeon 32LE AGP video card. The MBD is using the VIA chipset. With the new video card I am experiencing frequent, random lockups. ATI's website has this posted as a known issue and they recommend using the latest driver. I have tried that, and still have the same problem. I tried using my old video card, a Voodoo 3/1000 PCI card, and with that card, my monitor looses the video signal at random(screen goes black, power light blinks). Most of the issues with both cards occur when I am using an application using any type of 3d grasphics, but they also occur at other times(I.E. on the 'net). Does anyone know of any software patches to correct these issues? I would really like to be able to use the new AGP card, but if I can get either one to work, I would be happy.

 

[Guest_imported]

I've had issues with the older VIA chipset. Try hitting VIA's website and downloading the 4in1 Chipset patch. It resolved most all of my video and performance issues.

 

[glw6160]

Nope, not the issue. Tried that, didn't work. Next idea?

 

[LeoP]

Hello..

Are you using VIA KT133 chipset? or some older chipset? have several boards from VIA with chipsets like KT133A, 693A & 694X (for intel), however, I'm using vidcards from NVdia.. no problems though..

i read about motherboard that hav AGP slots not driving enough power for the cards to work.....

 

[CitrixEngineer]

I've used both a Voodoo 3 3000 and an ATI RAGE 128 pro on a Via chipset board; I had to disable shadowing of the Video BIOS in the BIOS, and allow the BIOS to let the Video card have its own IRQ.

Hope this helps