Asus Nvidia 5200FX in Sawtooth

[reddrag0n]

Well, after waiting for my 6200 to come in the mail, i figured that i would try to see if i can get a 5200 that was given to me a try in my machine. Well, it's an 8X card but here is what boggles the mind. No taping of the pins 3 & 11 and it still boots up. here is the proof that the card works.





Special thanks goes out to the guys and gals at Strangedogs for the rom. It worked great.

[aquamac]

:)Hey, that's really good news JJ, Should keep you going nicely untill the your 6200 turns up.

[reddrag0n]

well, it works but for some odd reason, the 2D is acting up. it doesn't scroll nicely, and i have no idea why. is it because of the non taped pins, or is it because of the AGP bottleneck?

[reddrag0n]

Well, after some running with the card, i did a reboot and when the computer came back to life, for some odd reason all i got was garble on the screen. Nothing able to read whatsoever. So as a last resort, i reflashed it with the oem PC rom and i am back to using my rage 128 pro. I have no idea what happened but according to the strangedogs forums, many people have had problems with the Asus 5200 cards. Well, i guess i was another one added to that number. Oh well, still waiting for the 6200 to show up.

[aquamac]

Mmm, Sounds like the problem you get sometimes if you enable 2D Extreme with some nvidia cards, dodgy scrolling, but garbled screen on a reboot if it was working OK before seems weird.

Just keeping all fingers crossed that your 62 turns up soon.