I killed 2 mobos with only a single 6200 turbocache

[jordibax]

Yesterday I bough a 2nd hand pIII 800mhz/256ram for a friend, just for playing warcraft3 and not much more. I had a nv 6200tc 512mb (256mb system shared) and y plugged in it. The system hung up and start beeping while I was messing around the bios, i had not time enough for even starting windows. I restarted and nothing were shown on the screen, even cdrom didn´t want open in a total collapse. after check every part i saw the mobo was fried, so I though i bend some transistor or condensator of the board on the card plug process, making like a short circuit or whatever. Today i used the same card in a sempron 2800+ with only 256 of ddr ram. I installed drivers and 15min. later the system hung up. I restarted and i got nothing on the screen, smoke smell , and the northbridge burning. I canged the card but it was too late, mobo fried. I dont know what the hell happens with this card. Maybe the fucking 256 mb of shared memory turbocaché in systems that only have 256 of system ram turns the northbridge crazy makes it inmolates itself?This card worked perfect in a pIV 3ghz 775 with 1gbram. for a whole year. Any Idea?

[phranq]

Yesterday I bough a 2nd hand pIII 800mhz/256ram for a friend, just for playing warcraft3 and not much more. I had a nv 6200tc 512mb (256mb system shared) and y plugged in it. The system hung up and start beeping while I was messing around the bios, i had not time enough for even starting windows. I restarted and nothing were shown on the screen, even cdrom didn´t want open in a total collapse. after check every part i saw the mobo was fried, so I though i bend some transistor or condensator of the board on the card plug process, making like a short circuit or whatever. Today i used the same card in a sempron 2800+ with only 256 of ddr ram. I installed drivers and 15min. later the system hung up. I restarted and i got nothing on the screen, smoke smell , and the northbridge burning. I canged the card but it was too late, mobo fried. I dont know what the hell happens with this card. Maybe the fucking 256 mb of shared memory turbocaché in systems that only have 256 of system ram turns the northbridge crazy makes it inmolates itself?This card worked perfect in a pIV 3ghz 775 with 1gbram. for a whole year. Any Idea?

I can't believe that there wouldn't be some sort of warning, or that Nvidia would release a product that would kill hardware like that. I really have no idea why that would happen though, very strange. Call Nvidia maybe?

[Mike]

Exactly what model number of motherboard did you plug it in to?

You might have hit upon a signalling voltage incompatibility with some AGP 4x motherboards.

[jordibax]

Exactly what model number of motherboard did you plug it in to?

You might have hit upon a signalling voltage incompatibility with some AGP 4x motherboards.
there are some labels in the card, in one " s/n HAH142242" , in a code bar "7 78656 04141 7", and in the pcb 050623a. Also in the pcb there is typed "serial no." but the, in a kind of orange pen, in manual numbers two eeigths and something like a four upside-down.

I agree you what concerns to agp4x and voltage of the pIII mobo, but the 2nd mobo that the damn card fried was an asrock k8nf3 socket 754 agp8x with only 8 months of life.
I am gonna give the card back to my friend to sell it on the second hand market and buy a 9550 for his pIII. Just for play some old games