Matrox RT.x100 will it work with my mobo?

[RollinD]

Could someone who knows for sure please confirm that the Matrox rt x100 is compatiable with my motherboard (Tyan Thunder K7X S2468). I just need to be 100% sure it'll work before we go out and spend the $1000.

Thanks,
Danny E.

My system specs:
Tyan Thunder K7X (S2468) with Integrated SCSI
Dual AMD MP 2100
1.5 gb of registered DDR PC2100 ram
Seagate 36 gb SCSI hd for windows/installed apps (i believe its 15k rpm tho its maybe 10k)
a bunch of 7200 rpm IDE hds for storage
SB Audigy platinum soundcard

And heres what Matrox support said:
Although we have not tested that exact motherboard, we do not see a foreseen problem using the Tyan Thunder K7X S2468. Though we cannot guarantee that you will have no problems. We think the probabilities are very slim to none that you would. We hope that this helps you out a little but we would strongly recommend that you visit the user forum. You may get great hints and tips and maybe run into someone that has the same motherboard as you.

Sooo does anyonere here have the Matrox RT.x100 running on a Tyan Thunder K7X S2468 ?

[Dr Mordrid]

A person posted this same question to the official RT.X100 forum.

This mainboards AMD 760 MPX chipset is on the approved list, but not the mainboard. This isn't too unusual since validating boards is a slow process and many that work great are not on the approved list.

You also can't tell by the mainboards price how good it will run either. I've had excellent results on $50 - $60 boards like the ECS K7S5A, ECS K7S6A, MSI 745 Ultra and my current ASROCK K7S8XE; all very economical SiS chipped Athlon XP systems. You never can tell.

The person inquiring got the following reply (followup included);

Hi Xxxxx,

Is the RT.X100 card installed on a 64-bit PCI slot? If not, you might want to install it on this slot.

Furthermore, did you install your motherboard's chipset drivers, AMD AGP and Bus Master IDE drivers?

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Tech Support

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Just a quick note to say thanks for the above advice - I had tried every slot on the MB except the 64 bit slots, assuming that as they were not specifically refered to in the manual that they were to be avoided and possibly would even damage the card - doh!
I'm not quite out of the woods yet as there is a lot of tweaking to be done, but at least I have something that actually works now.

Cheers!

Xxxxx

Hope this helps.

Dr. Mordrid

[RollinD]

Well thats good news...thank you for your help...and I'll post the outcome tomorrow or Friday hopefully!