CHAINTECH GeForce FX 5200

[Ballistic]

I recently purchased a CHAINTECH GeForce FX 5200 128 MB AGP Video Card, and as told by the retailer at Alpine Computers I was re-assured that this card was strictly plug and play. Wrong, or so I think. I need help to try and install it to make it work, I do not know what is wrong! I have the lastest drivers from NVIDIA, I have all the updates from microsoft for my comp. I install the card I get so far.... about 8 mins into it, it does 1 of 2 things:
1.Freezes up
-or-
2.Goes to a black screen and says VGA mode not supported

I have a:
Amptron motherboard K7 - 810CLM6(discontinued)
AMD Duron 1600+
AGP 2.0 slot
SDRam

I have:
Windows XP Pro
20 GB HD Western Digital(Master)
120 GB HD Seagate(Slave)
(2 x 256)512 MB kingsten SDRam <<<Spelling*

I have:
Proview 17" LCD Plasma Monitor

[nunyadam]

did you completly remove the old video card drivers?
try going into the device manager and deleting the display adapter/adapters. then restart the computer and let it find your new card and reinstall the proper driver.

[Ballistic]

I have tried that I even reformatted my hard drive with the new video card in it!!! and that still didnt work is there any other methods I could try!?

[sweeper2]

i assume you have it in the AGP slot, and also what were you using before, onboard,pci card or agp card?

make sure the bios is set to agp if you are using that slot or pci if you are using a pci slot
also uninstall all drivers, then make sure your bios is set for plug and play if possible, mine i can set for plug and play, then use the cd "if supplied" to install the card, then goto the nvidea site and upgrade the drivers if needed.

[Ballistic]

okay sweeper2 I will try that, but I am sure that I have it set on agp but i am not to sure. The last AGP Video Card I had was a PNY Verto GeForce MX 420 64 MB SDRam AGP card. that was plug and play cuz that is all I did.
I was looking at the requirements on the chaintech card and mentions everything other then Duron, i.e: Intel Pentium lll or AMD Athlon class processor or higher Ibm or 100% PC compatible.
Also, it mentions Full OpenGL 1.4 or lower does it mean I need to update that????

[sweeper2]

NOTE: This motherboard may experience some hardware compatibility issues with certain video cards. The following is a list of video cards that customers have reported as being COMPATIBLE with his motherboard. Compatibility is not limited to the video cards listed here, these are only the cards that have been reported to us as being compatible. If you experience problems with a specific video card and feel that it may be incompatible, please email Technical Support department at

techsupport@amptron.com.

Compatible Products
SiS 6326 Matrox G400
Matrox G450 Riva TNT2
S3 Trio Voodoo 3 3000
Nvidia TNT2 SiS 300/305/315
Most Matrox chipset Most SiS chipsets


Because video with a particular chipset differ in design from on manufacturer to another, it if often not easy to tell before hand if a particular video card will or will not work. If you experience frequent lockups, abnormal BIOS beeps or other video related problems then your video card may be incompatible.



Built-in Graphics System
Onboard 128-bit 2D/3D 100MHz Host interface AGP Graphics Accelerator Complies with AGP V2.0
Shard memory architecture allows a maximum of 64MB main memory to act as frame buffer
Supports high resolutions up to 1920x1440 Hi-colors, up to 2048x2048 texture size and Virtual screen up to 4096x4096
Supports hardware DVD Accelerator
AGP (4X) Slot, Complies with AGP V2.0

recommended AGP cards:

Model Chip Memory Manufacture
3D Blaster GeForce 32M Creative CT6940
GeForce 256 32M ASUS V6600
GeForce 2 MX 32M ASUS AGP-V7100
GeForce 2 GTS DDR 32M ASUS AGP-7700D
GeForce 2 GTS DDR 32M ELSA GLADIAC
GeForce 2 GTs 32M WinFast
GeForce 2 MX 32M WinFast
NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR 32M AUSU V6800
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32M Creative CT6970
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Vanta 32M Top solution
RIVA TNT2 M64 16M PixelView
RIVA TNT 16M WinFast 3D S320
RIVA TNT2 32M ASUS AGP-V3800
RIVA TNT2 32M Creative CT6810


Okay, I know this is long, but here is the info I looked at, I am not sure if you have onboard video or just an accelerator, might need to check that out, if you do have onboard video, make sure it is disabled, also make sure your new card is set to x4 under your display settings, which it might already be at default. That's all I can think of, sry if this doesn't help out...good luck...

[Ballistic]

hey man I really do thank you for you taking the time to look that up for me, I have no way to thank you. but i just hope that all this info will help my card work cuz I paid good money for that and it would suck a great deal if it didnt. well I am off to try and make it work again, so untill next time thank you and may god be with you!!!!

[bombledmonk]

It is also possible that you have a faulty card.

[sweeper2]

Originally posted by Ballistic
hey man I really do thank you for you taking the time to look that up for me, I have no way to thank you. but i just hope that all this info will help my card work cuz I paid good money for that and it would suck a great deal if it didnt. well I am off to try and make it work again, so untill next time thank you and may god be with you!!!!

no problem...I am having trouble with my card!! I have a 9600 radeon pro 128, NFSU keeps locking up. Really not sure if it's card or not, have been playing game for along time, not sure why it is locking up now...

[Ballistic]

You may experience inconsistent graphic performance with textures if you set the Mipmap Detail Level in the ATI Direct3D Control Panel to any setting except High Quality.
I was reading some other stuff but mainly all I get is the same when playing high top of the line games. but I will continue to look!!!