PCI video on AGP motherboard (Abit VH6-II)

[Dudesicle]

Just got a new Abit VH6-II mobo, works great..until.

I have a PCI VooDOo 4 video card that was working fine on my old HP Pavillion mobo (that board had a terminal case of bios/cmos death). Bought a new mobo and processor (Cel 733). Plugged everything in, worked well except whenever a game goes into 3D mode (Counterstrike, Half Life, Black & White) the machine freezes and I have to power reset. Everythign else works great.

I have tried poking around in the bios to disable AGP or some such thing, no luck. I can lower the video resolution to 600x800 (I had been playing at 1024 x 768) and get into the games, but I get wickedly low frame rates (4-10 fps) and only if I disable Direct 3D or Open GL.

Is the PCI bus on this board slow? I have reloaded drivers, no change.

COnfused.

 

[butchrecon]

The PCI bus should be fine. Might be a bad case of terminally ILL video card. Try putting it into another PCI slot and see if that helps. Also ensure that your drivers are up to date. Also right click on the desktop and go to properties. Go to SETTINGS then ADVANCED. Then go to TROUBLESHOOTING. Make sure the slider for GRAPHICS ACCELERATION is NOT all the way over to the right. Rather ensure it is set to the next tick mark to the left of the far right side. Try those and let me know. James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net