4x AGP, but using win2K it won't come up in 4x. only off.

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I'm running "Windows 2000 Profesional" and have a 4X AGP video card, but when
I boot up in Win 2K, and goto my desktop properties, and then settings,
Advance, I then find some tabs, one in question is named "SmartGart(tm)", and
when I click on this tab, it says that my AGP is not on,
I have an ATI Radeon 7500 series card, and if I boot up using ME I have 4x
AGP arcording to the same tab "SmartGart(tm)". Can anyone tell me how to fix
this in the Windows 2K boot up?, thanks in advance for your time.
 
have you checked if there is a specific win2K driver for the
card ?

Geoff

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I'm running "Windows 2000 Profesional" and have a 4X AGP video card, but when
I boot up in Win 2K, and goto my desktop properties, and then settings,
Advance, I then find some tabs, one in question is named "SmartGart(tm)", and
when I click on this tab, it says that my AGP is not on,
I have an ATI Radeon 7500 series card, and if I boot up using ME I have 4x
AGP arcording to the same tab "SmartGart(tm)". Can anyone tell me how to fix
this in the Windows 2K boot up?, thanks in advance for
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your time.
 
Yes there was an update for the card and Windows 2K, and I installed that.
and my bios is set too for it to be a 4x AGP card. it's baffeling me as to
why this OS is being so hard headed. thank you for your post reply.
 
CaptKurt said:
I'm running "Windows 2000 Profesional" and have a 4X AGP video card,
but when I boot up in Win 2K, and goto my desktop properties, and
then settings, Advance, I then find some tabs, one in question is
named "SmartGart(tm)", and when I click on this tab, it says that my
AGP is not on,
I have an ATI Radeon 7500 series card, and if I boot up using ME I
have 4x AGP arcording to the same tab "SmartGart(tm)". Can anyone
tell me how to fix this in the Windows 2K boot up?, thanks in advance
for your time.
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Ensure you are running SP 4 and all the updates
 
I'm up to date with all of the latest fixes, but it still does not run in 4x
mode, using Win 2K. thanks for your reply.
 
CaptKurt said:
I'm up to date with all of the latest fixes, but it still does not
run in 4x mode, using Win 2K. thanks for your reply.
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I had a similar issue with my nvidia quadro pro graphics card and my
motherboard.

The graphics were running in PCI Compatibility mode rather than AGP
mode.

It took a while to track down but was eventually fixed for my system by
installing the latest VIA 4in1 drivers

http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/drivers/4in1/via_hyperion 4 in 1_v453v.zip

Hope that helps or at least points you in the right direction
 
aThanks for the reply Steve, but I have an ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card,
with the latest drivers too. I'm using a 2ghz P4 with 400 mh front bus, but
still it wants to run in AGP off mode when I use Windows 2K. Again, thank you
for your reply.
 
Wow, that is something that I have not done yet, but will for sure give it a
try, thank you very much for your reply, and if this does not work, I'll come
back and repost again to let you and others now. again, thank you.
 
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