[ILUG] [OT] AGP Voltage regulators

[David Murphy]

Quoting <20000127155111.B29327 at online.ie>
by "John P. Looney" <jplooney-ilug at online.ie>:

> > >  Are you wary about buying the card, or wary about popping it in & blowing
> > > the board ?
> > I've bought the card & board, and when I power the machine up, it
> > powers itself off again 6.5 seconds later!

>  Urk. What sort of power supply have you in the case ? That could be
> part of the problem too.

It's the supermicro SP301-RA [1] as supplied with their SC-760A case
[2].

> Either way, you could be looking at giving the card back :(

I'll have a chance to test with another AGP card, and a PCI card also,
to test my hypothesis - if the system comes up with one of the other
cards, I'll test the GeForce in another motherboard, and see where I
am then. I'm not going to give up my DDR GeForce easily 8)

[1] http://www.supermicro.com/PROFILE/PressRelease/press041599.htm
[2] http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/Chassis/sc760A.htm

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