Radeon lock-ups on Aladin 5 chipset.....

[MeldarthX]

I have a friend that upgraded his K6-2 550 system with a Radeon 32ddr. Its having random lock-ups. Anyone else having problems with this chipset.......I'm too tire to deal with it....

Meldarth

 

[Guest]

Hi Mel.

I had some lockup problems with Asus P5A/K6-2/Riva128 combo with both Windows 95 and 98. Especially with Win 95. I sorted them out by downloading new AGP/chipset drivers from ALi's site and updated always to the latest revision of video drivers.

I also remember reading about general AGP related problems on some older Super 7 m/bs related to high current many cards draw from the AGP slot. The solution to this was to modify the m/b to supply more juice to AGP or use an extra power connector on the video card itself. I don't know if Radeons are very power-hungry though.

Good luck with this machine!

Sami

 

[Bubba]

Correct! There are not many current video cards that will work on the P5A. I had this board and it was a nightmare. Forget trying to have a nice video card on this board and forget trying to play any games on it.

But if you have this board the video card is the least of your problems.

 

[MeldarthX]

Hmmmmm........I don't think that the Radeon is powerhungry like the Geforce line of cards.......He's thinking about getting a new system anyways......which will be good.....and I may just take the Radeon off his hands..... it will be a lot better than my tnt2

 

[blah]

yep... hehe

Post, we'll do the search...

 

[BGates2B]

I ran a GF2MX on my P5A with a K6III-400 with no problem. Just use the ALi AGP 1.69 driver as I had severe problems with versions 1.70 and 1.73. That should help