BX Master + Viper II Woes

[Rhapsody]

Help! My shiny new BX master just won't come alive with my Viper II? Works just fine with my Rage Fury MAXX. Anyone know why? The master works sorta ok with a Viper 770; one problem is that any screen saver locks the system but good. Any clues? Isn't this supposed to be the motherboard of motherboards?

 

[Rhapsody]

^up

 

[rigor]

those vipers' are just really big pieces of junk. They are very timing sensitive and sometimes they are even physically slot sensitive to the position in the slot.

get a geforce and life will be great.

 

[BeHeMOTH]

are you using the lastest drivers? I had a little problem using my V3-3000 but I installed the lastest drivers and it screams. Are you using the ultra viper tnt2? I was just wondering, because I could never get that card to work right.

 

[Rhapsody]

Thanks for the reply BeHeMOTH. I am using the latest Viper 770 TNT2 drivers (non-ultra). Nothing I could think of would make the Viper II work at all. I don't have a Geforce; maybe I should, huh?

 

[cisco]

I have two V770 vipers one ultra and one not, no problems. Now I have noticed the screen saver lockup my Dell that has a Geforce DDR hercules in it, if I turn it on and leave it in the enter network password screen and come back sometimes its locked up and I have to reboot it. My Vipers are in an MSI 6163 and an Aopen both are Via 133 chipsets...so from my experience V770s are not touchy, just my 2 cents.
I'll trade the aopen for your BX Master if interested...

 

[BeHeMOTH]

Sorry to hear your still having trouble with it, I never really like diamond's drivers and the ultr tnt2 card made me stick with 3dfx. Have you tried another card besides the TNT? You could try a V2-2000 and if it doesn't work take it back, that's what I did with the TNT card at COmp-USA.

 

[Blain]

cisco,
I've got a BX Master, that I may be interested in swapping for your AOpen board. What model is it?
Are you sure that your MSI 6163 is a VIA board? The 6153 is a VIA board.
http://www.msicomputer.com/products/motherboard/motherboard.htm