Quoting <20000127122102.S6432 at online.ie>
by "John P. Looney" <jplooney-ilug at online.ie>:
> Alas, the regulator is a bunch of capacitors & inductance coils on the
> motherboard, that smooths power to the CPUs. I can't see why a type of
> regulator would mess up a video card, unless it drew too much power from
> the rest of the board.
I've since discovered that this is exactly the issue [1]. However, the
question of how one finds out what type of regulator a motherboard
remains...
[1] http://cgi.asus.com.tw/products/addon/vga/agpv3400tnt/qa.html
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