Nvidia GeForce4 MX Series User Manual

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Q: TV-OUT is grayed out on my TV-OUT capable. How can I fix it?
A:
1. The VGA card needs to see real 75 ohms AV input. However, not all TVs
have this, and some have a switch labeled
“Terminate”
next to the AV inputs
to turn the 75 ohms off to allow more than one TV to be connected. If you are
having this problem, especially with a smaller or portable TV, then try another
TV to see if this is a problem, or check for a
“Terminate”
switch.
2. According to motherboard vendor this may also be a problem caused by
motherboards using a linear voltage regulator that does not supply enough
voltage to the VGA card, and therefore there is not enough voltage to
maintain TV-OUT.
Q: My card keeps on locking up. How can I fix it?
A:
1. Are you over clocking either VGA card or your processor? If you are, try
clocking back to normal, leaving the case lids off and under clocking and see
if it fixes the problem. If it does, you need more cooling.
2. Have you assigned an IRQ to VGA in your BIOS? If not, do so.
3. Have you got an IRQ conflict with VGA card and another card? The only
device that can have the same IRQ is the
“IRQ Holder for PCI Steering”
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so, try moving the card to another slot (in particular avoid the first PCI slot as
this frequently is forced to share an IRQ with the AGP slot) or assigning a
different IRQ to that slot in the BIOS.
4. Are you running a virus checker in the background? Try disabling it.
5. Try installing the latest AGP drivers for your motherboard chipset if you
haven't got an Intel motherboard.
6. If you have an
“AGP Driving Control”
setting in your BIOS, try switching it
to ‘
BA
’ or another value instead of
“Auto”
.
7. If you have a VIA chipset, try enabling AGP8X. We have chosen to disable
the AGP sideband transfer because there have been various system instability
problems due to issues in the design of some motherboards.
Q: The system will hang up when I play 3D game in win98se system.
A:
1.
Start ⇒ programs⇒ accessories⇒ system tools⇒ system information
2.
Tools⇒ DirectX Diagnostic Tool⇒ display
3. Disable
“Direct3D Acceleration”
to try.

Nvidia GeForce4 MX Series Specifications

General

Memory Clock	166-275 MHz
DirectX	7.0
OpenGL	1.2
Pixel Pipelines	2
TMUs Per Pipeline	2
ROPs	2
AGP	4x
Manufacturing Process	150 nm
Maximum Resolution	2048x1536
RAMDAC	350 MHz
Max Memory	64 MB
Architecture	NV17
Memory Type	SDR, DDR
Memory Bus Width	64/128-bit