AGP Rates and Fast Writes

feylya · 02-12-2003 6:13pm #1

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?

Xithus · 02-12-2003 7:14pm

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

feylya · 02-12-2003 7:49pm

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!

TacT · 02-12-2003 8:15pm

Have you loaded your motherboard agp driver?

feylya · 02-12-2003 8:19pm

There was none afaik.

Anima · 02-12-2003 10:29pm

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.

TacT · 03-12-2003 7:28pm

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]

feylya · 03-12-2003 7:29pm

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

TacT · 03-12-2003 7:31pm

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:

Xithus · 04-12-2003 12:44am

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

feylya · 04-12-2003 1:07am

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??

TacT · 04-12-2003 9:21pm

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...

feylya · 04-12-2003 9:43pm

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.

TacT · 05-12-2003 10:31am

Glad to hear ya got it sorted

Raven, any joy?

Anima · 06-12-2003 12:31am

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

AGP Rates and Fast Writes

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