Hi,
A friend of mine is having constant crashes with his Kyro II card and a Gigabyte KT400 board.
Has anyone heard of this problem before with KT400's? is it well known or is his board messed up, this setup never work for him and were trying to get it to work or its gonna stay in the closet for 10 years. Its updated with latest bios and drivers etc...
Any tweaks he could try?
Cheers,
neologan
Kyro 2 chipset is very ropey with compatability with new chipsets esp AGP-8x ones.
TBH id ditch that aincient graphics card and upgrade him to a GF4MX or a GF FX52000, or faster if he can afford it.
I doubt that graphics card will work with that chipset.
I agree, ditch the kyro 2. While it was a good idea at it time, it is very outdated. You could but faster stuff for less than $80 us.
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The problem with the Kyro II is that it's 2x AGP. It won't work on 4x/8x AGp motherboards like KT400A, NF2, ....
There's an easy fix though: the kyro 2 can easely be modded to 4x agp by flashing to a modified bios and closing a bridge on the PCB.
I'll try to find the modded bios & take a pic of my ol' kyro 2 for you... hang on a sec.
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here is the modded bios
And here's a pic of the two soldered dots you've got to connect. Silver paint is the easiest way imho.
HTPC (win xp): Turion MT-30 @ 2Ghz | NF4 | XFX 7900GT | 26" TFT
Development (mac osx): Macbook Pro | Core Duo 1.86Ghz | 1.5GB DDR2
wow thanks m8, that's great fix! I'll get him to do that pronto
neologan
sounds like fun, I may try that with my kyro II just to make it agp 4x.
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might want to try to new KYRO drivers out. Find them at the Futuremark.com site or guru3d
Tornado^2
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Cool, new drivers
Though I doubt its going to fix this AGP problem, just sounds to easy....
But it would be great if it did, ofcourse.
neologan
my kyro ii looks alot different then that picture, I need to scan it, but I would have to fix my scanner then.
Tornado^2
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40GB Maxtor *13.3GB Maxtor *Plextor CD-RW *Hitachi DVD
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Maybe you got the newer pcb layout, does it look like this?
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Development (mac osx): Macbook Pro | Core Duo 1.86Ghz | 1.5GB DDR2
looks different then that too, i will post a pic of it later
Tornado^2
Athlon 1700+ DLTC3 310XPMW@2.2GHz+
Thermalright SLK-800, 9 other case fans
2 OCSystem 256MB PC3200 Sticks with DualDDR enabled
Leadtek nForce2 K7NCR18D Mobo
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 *Inspire 4.1 4400 Speakers
40GB Maxtor *13.3GB Maxtor *Plextor CD-RW *Hitachi DVD
Albatron Ti4200P Turbo 128MB @ 315/720
13,9XX+ 3D Marks
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