My vintage motherboard is racist towards ATI

[NelizMastr]

It's time for some more retro parts here I think  

 

So, the components this topic is about:

 

Asus P2B-F motherboard, latest BIOS

Intel Pentium III 750MHz, 100FSB on Slotket

256MB PC133 memory

80GB Maxtor IDE HDD

FSP 250W PSU

 

I've been tinkering with this board for a long time now, and it's been great fun doing so.  For instance, overclocking on these boards isn't done through the BIOS but through jumpers

that raise the FSB and multiplier.

 

All you kids on here have easy lives, with multiplier unlocked chips, this wasn't a thing back then , but I digress.

 

One thing, though, I've been unable to wrap my head around, is the fact that I can't get any of my ATI cards to post in this board, not at stock speeds either.

Nvidia and S3 cards are fine, so that makes me assume this board is somehow ATI racist . 

 

I know the board, with its i440BX chipset, is limited to AGP 2X, but Nvidia cards don't seem to care and even PCI cards refuse to boot with them 

set at primary video. This has me stumped. I'll be getting an i815E board with Tua 1.4 soon and see how that works. Probably without problems.

 

Cards I've tested and their status:

 

Nvidia:

1. Geforce 2 MX 400  -  Works perfectly
2. Geforce 4 MX 460 -  Works perfectly
3. Geforce 4 Ti 4800SE - Works with minor artifacting, does this on AGP 2X boards only it seems

S3:

1. Trio64V+ - Works perfectly

ATI:

1. Radeon 7000 PCI - Nope
2. Radeon 9250 PCI - Nope
3. Radeon 9000 Pro AGP - Nope
4. Radeon 9600 TX (not XT this is a downclocked Pro OEM card) - Nope

[boey]

3 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

It's time for some more retro parts here I think  

 

So, the components this topic is about:

 

Asus P2B-F motherboard, latest BIOS

Intel Pentium III 750MHz, 100FSB on Slotket

256MB PC133 memory

80GB Maxtor IDE HDD

FSP 250W PSU

 

I've been tinkering with this board for a long time now, and it's been great fun doing so.  For instance, overclocking on these boards isn't done through the BIOS but through jumpers

that raise the FSB and multiplier.

 

All you kids on here have easy lives, with multiplier unlocked chips, this wasn't a thing back then , but I digress.

 

One thing, though, I've been unable to wrap my head around, is the fact that I can't get any of my ATI cards to post in this board, not at stock speeds either.

Nvidia and S3 cards are fine, so that makes me assume this board is somehow ATI racist . 

 

I know the board, with its i440BX chipset, is limited to AGP 2X, but Nvidia cards don't seem to care and even PCI cards refuse to boot with them 

set at primary video. This has me stumped. I'll be getting an i815E board with Tua 1.4 soon and see how that works. Probably without problems.

 

Cards I've tested and their status:

 

Nvidia:

1. Geforce 2 MX 400  -  Works perfectly
2. Geforce 4 MX 460 -  Works perfectly
3. Geforce 4 Ti 4800SE - Works with minor artifacting, does this on AGP 2X boards only it seems

S3:

1. Trio64V+ - Works perfectly

ATI:

1. Radeon 7000 PCI - Nope
2. Radeon 9250 PCI - Nope
3. Radeon 9000 Pro AGP - Nope
4. Radeon 9600 TX (not XT this is a downclocked Pro OEM card) - Nope

Do you know for certain those GPUs are working?

[NelizMastr]

44 minutes ago, _d0nut said:

Do you know for certain those GPUs are working?

Yup. Tested them in an Intel i850 board all as working