Parhelia on 440BX board

[X-Caliber]

Hi,

I was wondering if the Parhelia 128M card will run on my ASUS P2B-DS board, which has only an AGP 2x slot. I believe the signal is 3.3V. I asked Kruzin about the P650, and he said NO (on a previous message). I was hoping the situation was different with this card.

Thanks,

-V-

[Nowhere]

Look at the signature in Utwig 's post
Apparently it can be done...

[X-Caliber]

but what motherboard does that guy have?

[Faramir1966]

The Parhelia ran just fine on my old Abit BE6-2 Board,wich uses the 440BX chipset.
Parhelia supports both 3.3v and 1.5v

[sirkoj]

i have my P on an Asus CUBX.

no probs so far, even with an overclocked AGP.

Sirko,

[Nowhere]

X-Caliber, ermmm, it's there

Pentium][ of death: 350@467, midtower, 300W Macase, 2x ZM F1 silent, DFI P2XBL, 512MB Micron PC133 CAS2, Matrox Parhelia512 128MB B...

Anyway, you have now three examples of BX mobos working...probably all of them are ok.

[bsdgeek]

Parhelia works in my Supermicro P6DBE (Dual P2 450)

[ayoub_ibrahim]

iirc Kruzin was using his P initially on his p3b-f without problems!

[Kruzin]

I did run my P on a P3B for a while.
If I said P wouldn't work on a BX board, I was probably out of it that night

[UtwigMU]

Teh DFI P2XBL (almost 5 years old by now) leaked caps yesterday and is dead now.

However, I'm running fine on ABIT BX133 RAID that I installed because I have urgent work.

I'll be getting parts for new rigs in a week or two. (Tiger MPX, CPUs, Tualatin and junk to rebuild ABIT BX133 RAID rig).

The bellow stuff is really ghetto. I had to tye Zalman F1 with string to small CPU heatsink.

The Celeron won't do 550 w/o a proper heatsink and at 333 it's a real dog compared to 350@467, so I'll most likely get friends BE6II RAID, out of which I can build a server latter on.

[Maggi]

I run my Parhelia on a very old Asus P2B-S (rev. 1.02) since day one and the only issue that you could consider as incompatibility, is the fact that whenever I shut down the computer and do not wait until all capacitors are fully unloaded before powering it up again, most of the time I get a BIOS beep error code, stating no vid-card found.
But, if I wait let's say 10 seconds before powering it up again, all is fine and no problems whatsoever occur elsewhere.

To sum it up, yes the Parhelia does work in an old Asus P2B series board ...

[runderwo]

Teh DFI P2XBL (almost 5 years old by now) leaked caps yesterday and is dead now.

Are they the two small caps right behind the middle of the CPU? I had the same thing happen to my P2XBL. Fortunately, it is easy to fix with surrogate caps from another board. Those caps get really hot for some reason in the P2XBL design and it shortens their life. Using bigger ones when you replace them helps distribute the heat better.

[UtwigMU]

No it's the 3 caps above and right to RAM sockets at the edge of board.

Tayhen 1000 uF/6.3V capacitor

I was running the board maxed out with:
2x256MB of PC133CAS2
PII 350@467
Parhelia (power consuming graphic board)
Sound, SCSI card, NIC and modem

I know it's easy to fix, but I'd replace all caps to be on safe side..

There are 15 1000uF/6.3 and about ~30 of small capacitors.

The small ones are harder to soldier.

But it would be easy and cheap to just replace 15 big ones.

I'm getting BE6 II RAID today.

I'll be taking BX133 RAID to do some more soldering (a few of the caps are loose), I can fix P2XBL in the process.

Mine's a revision B+ (there were A, B, C and D) D supports coppermines, the others do not.

[X-Caliber]

Thanks for the response. one more question (which I can probably guess the answer too), will the TV tuner from my RRG work with the Parhelia? Before you answer with an IMMEDIATE NO(!!), has anyone tried this? Matrox has stated that the RRG TV Tuner won't work under XP, but I just installed the drivers from the G450eTV, and it worked fine! (maybe they meant that they wouldn't support it).

[Kruzin]

NO(!!)
RR-G is made for G series cards.
There is no feature connector on Parhelia to connect the ribbon cable of RR-G to.