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AGP Rates and Fast Writes

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  • 02-12-2003 7:13pm
    #1
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    This is gonna sound like a stupid question but my graphics card is stuck on PCI for the AGP rate and I can't enable Fast Writes.

    My system is:

    P4 2.4 GHZ @ 3GHZ
    512MB RAM
    GeForce FX 5600 Ultra (53.03 drivers)
    Windows XP SP1

    Any ideas?


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    Xithus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Xithus


    Try setting it to AGP 4x. AGP 8 Wouldnt make much difference anyway.


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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    No, that's my point. It's stuck on PCI Rate. I can't even get APG 4x, never mind 8x. The diagnostics say Windows XP can't handle APG rates or Fast Writes but people here are using it and APG 8X!


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    TacT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭TacT


    Have you loaded your motherboard agp driver?


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    #5
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    There was none afaik.


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    Anima
    Registered Users Posts: 3,945 ✭✭✭Anima


    I'm getting the same problem. I'm using the 44.03, now that i look, for some reason.
    I have the is7-e mobo with the 2.4 ghz also.


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    TacT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭TacT


    hmm, every motherboard chipset I've known so far needs a motherboard agp driver loaded before your system can take advantage of agp in conjunction with your gfx card driver.

    There just has to be one!
    sittin in work with feck all to do atm so I'll do some diggin and see if I can't find somethin...

    [edit]What manufacturer is it from? Abit? And what chipset does it use? Via/Sis etc?[/edit]


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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    I was looking last night but I couldn't find anything. It's an MSI 865PE Neo2 MoBo BTW.


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    TacT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭TacT


    right, I have confirmed you have yourselves SiS chipsets with P4's so you will need this fella to get AGP working.

    Advice - uninstall your gfx card driver, make sure you have all other motherboard drivers installed then install your gfx card driver and you should be laughin, g'luck, wouldn't fancy playin my games in pci mode :eek:


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    Xithus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Xithus


    Have you tried setting the agp rate to 4x in the bios.. And thats an intel chipset board tact.


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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Oddly, there's no agp rate settings in the BIOS.

    SIS?? Hmm, there's no on board graphics on the mobo and it's an intel 865pe chipset so will that proggie screw up my system??


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    TacT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭TacT


    roffles and wooops, there's a few different models of it, be more specific god damnit!

    :(

    Your agp driver is on your cd's somewhere, find it install it and you shall have agp...


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    #13
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Hmm, looking on the CD eh? Yeah, that might have helped. Installed some drivers and now I have AGP 8x, Fast Writes and Sideband Addressing. Just need to do some formatting now.

    Cheers for your help TacT.


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    #14
    TacT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭TacT


    Glad to hear ya got it sorted :)
    Raven, any joy?


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    #15
    Anima
    Registered Users Posts: 3,945 ✭✭✭Anima


    Yeah i installed this nvstrap driver in RivaTuner and it works now.


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