AMD and geForce 1 and 2

[tibou]

My question is, is an 800mhz AMD Thunderbird processor and an asus A7V motherboard compatible (will run trouble free) with geforce 1 and 2 video cards (more specifically, made by asus)? I read that there are problems with the athalon, does this apply to the thunderbird? Thanks

 

[Grizely1]

There aren't problems with the Athlon, but the chipsets that run Athlon.

Although, the A7V seems to run GeForce 1 and 2 perfectly on most peoples systems (like 99%)

 

[Bubba]

I have the A7V with a Duron 600@850
I have used the Diamond viper V770 (TNT2), the Geforce 256 (64MB), and I just put in a Geforce 2 GTS (64MB) last night. They all work great. Never any problems. Of course, I like the GTS the best.
I have never had any problems of the board not detecting the video card. I have never had problems with 4X AGP. No over-heating, no lockups, and it has never crashed while playing games (Q3 and UT).
Just make sure you get relatively new VIA drivers.

 

[Guest]

i have a thunderbird 900 and the A7V i have tryed 3 cards the voodoo3 3500 the voodoo5 5500 and the Asus 7700 GeForce2 GTS card all the voodoo cards worked perfect (the 5500 dident fit so good covered up the ata 100 slots) the GeForce card worked for games really well great preformance over the voodoo5 but the screen would flash about every 15mins like just go white for a split second and in normal windows operations it would lock up and do other weird stuff. i wish there was a way to make this card work right becuase its much faster then the voodoo5. im probaly gona try a few more from diffrent manufactures before i deside to send the voodoo5 back but i will probaly just stay with the voodoo5

 

[Bubba]

Try updating your VIA AGP drivers. Also try updating your Video card drivers, Det 3 V6.34 or higher.
Also, if you are switching video cards frequently (sounds like you are), make sure you completely uninstall the cards and all related files for these cards. Switch your display adapter to Standard PCI VGA card before you install new drivers.
Also in C:\Windows\System, any file that starts with NV are NVidia driver files and they need to be deleted before you install any new driver. I don't know what the Voodoo files in this folder are but you should make sure you get rid of them before you put in another card and update drivers.

Just a note, I have never heard of anything like the problem you are having with the white flashing.