[newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the mobo (wrong voltage). The G-Force2 MX-400 is a 2x/4x board. Is it safe to assume that it will have the right voltage, merely falling back to 2x if the mobo doesn't have the later standard agp? Anne -- Registered

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Marc
On Saturday 30 August 2003 09:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the mobo (wrong voltage). The G-Force2 MX-400 is a 2x/4x board. Is it safe to assume that it will have the right voltage, merely falling back to 2x if the mobo

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 4:18 pm, Bart Salien wrote: Op Saturday 30 August 2003 16:47, schreef Anne Wilson: Anne , Normaly all AGP 4x should be backwards compatible with a AGP 2x . Unless they ran out of money to properly implement the AGP bus on your mobo ? Hi, Bart. No, that's not the

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Bart Salien
Op Saturday 30 August 2003 16:47, schreef Anne Wilson: Anne , Normaly all AGP 4x should be backwards compatible with a AGP 2x . Unless they ran out of money to properly implement the AGP bus on your mobo ? Bart. A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Bart Salien
Op Saturday 30 August 2003 17:24, schreef Anne Wilson: Anne , Normaly all AGP 4x should be backwards compatible with a AGP 2x . Unless they ran out of money to properly implement the AGP bus on your mobo ? Hi, Bart. No, that's not the problem. I'm really just asking whether it's

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 4:44 pm, Bart Salien wrote: Op Saturday 30 August 2003 17:24, schreef Anne Wilson: Anne , Normaly all AGP 4x should be backwards compatible with a AGP 2x . Unless they ran out of money to properly implement the AGP bus on your mobo ? Hi, Bart. No,

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 6:27 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 30 August 2003 10:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the mobo (wrong voltage). The G-Force2 MX-400 is a 2x/4x board. Is it safe to assume that it will have the

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Sharrea Day
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:47, Anne Wilson wrote: A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the mobo (wrong voltage). The G-Force2 MX-400 is a 2x/4x board. Is it safe to assume that it will have the right voltage, merely falling back to 2x if the mobo doesn't have