I have a Abit VP6 motherboard with two pentium III 1G processors. It had 1G of 133 memory. The other day, 1/8/2007, I ordered a 128MB NVIDIA GeForce MX440(EOM) video card. Installed the card and turned the power button on. There was a sharp crack, so I immediately turned the power off. Saw no smoke or other indication of a component shorting out. Turned the power on again and the unit started booting. Pressed the DEL key and entered the BIOS. Checked the drives and DVD Rom. The BIOS was seeing them OK. Spent the next several days trying to get Gentoo to install. It kept failing on the load of the ???GLcore.so lib. From what I could figure the video drivers were not loading. Clue #1.

To check the video card out I loaded, can I say it ????
XP. Xp could not load the video drivers. Clue #2.

Proceded to check power supply, who knows that check has saved a lot of trouble shooting in the past.

Power supply looked good.

Removed the video card and was going to try reseating it, again again again.

Finally noticed that the casing for the S-Video connector was sitting on to of a TOROID installed inline with the AGP connector at the edge of the motherboard. When I pressed the video card into the AGP slot the casing of course pressed onto the TOROID. Pulle video card ant checked with a magnifying glass and could see where the TOROID had pressed into the case. Probably did this when I screwed the video board onto the PC case.

Now all of this to see if anyone could suggest a vidoe card for Abit VP6 motherboard that doesn't short the components out??

Am looking at ZOGIS GeForce 6200 ZO62-DLAGP Low Profile Video Card ZOGIS ZO62-DLAGP GeForce 6200 256MB 64-bit GDDR2 AGP 4X 8X Low Profile Video Card .

6200 is listed in the Nvidia list so I think this would work???

Anyone have any suggestions?? I won't complain if a suggestion doesn't work but would give a LOT of CUDOS it it did.

John Klungle

some video cards are 8X only, some are 4X/8X compatible. Make sure the specs do say 4X/8X. Also that MX440 card SHOULD be 4x/8x also but due to the configuration anything could have happened. Just check the pictures to see if there is anything that could cause problems like you mentioned.