eVGA NVIDIA e-GeForce 6200 TC, (64 MB) PCI Express Video Card

Pros: You may find the combination of features and price good
Cons: May require firmware upgrade to operate properly

In the last month I've built about 6 Athlon 64 systems with the MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard and PCI Express video cards based on the nVIDIA GeForce 6200 TC. Most used MSI video cards, but two use the eVGA eGe-Force 6200 TC.

The systems work well, except those with the eVGA card. The eVGA BIOS announces 'Engineering release, not for production use', and the boards lock up the system about half the time at startup. eVGA suggests the BIOS AGP aperture size may be too small.

I cannot ship systems that give the message 'Engineering release, not for production use'.

UPDATE

eVGA sent me a firmware upgrade as a Microsoft Windows executable that creates a bootable floppy disk. Eventually I found a floppy drive, some forgotten floppy disks, a power adapter cable, and a way to set the floppy drive on a table. I ran the two eVGA cards through the firmware update.

Now, after perhaps an hour of work updating the firmware, the eVGA cards work perfectly. The problems are gone.