@Seehund
There's nothing wrong with certification.
Let’s take an example of a mainstream x86 motherboard manufacture with certification logos (my current x86 motherboard manufacture).
MSI exampleMSI’s certification includes
1. nVidia Certified
2. MS Windows XP Certified
3. Linux Tested Certified
4. MS Windows Certified
5. ISO 14001 Certified
6. ISO 9001 Certified
Since Bill McEwen. was from Gateway, He may follow industry standard practises.
Refer
http://www.gateway.com/work/gov/resources/certs.shtmlExample of lack certification.
Apparently, my old Lucktech mobo (intel ZX440/100 chipset based) doesn’t have nVidia certification thus it doesn’t work with my old TNT2 card at X2 AGP mode (causes a driver stall while doing 3Dstuff).
(It's power brick is rated at 250 Watts.)
It also failed to run with my old Geforce 2 at X2 AGP mode (i.e. causes a stall while doing 3D stuff).
I haven’t tried it with my newer Geforce 3 128DDR...