9800pro problems

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I recently installed a radeon 9800 pro 128mb. I'm using a Pc Chips 848A
m/board (I know they are not the best - m/boards next on my upgrade list),
an athlon 2000xp and 512k ram.

My problem is the system is only stable when I check everything to off in
Smartgart (PCI and AGP read and write). When I click the 'retest all' it
suggests everything should be switched on (which will continuosly crash the
machine).

I've installed the latest AGP drivers for my m/board. AGP speed is set to 8x
and aperture to 128Mb. Someone suggested I run "AGPMem" which reports I have
0 AGP memory?!

Best result I've had in aquamark 3 is only 22k. Something's wrong isn't it?

TIA if you can help :)
 
Joe said:
I recently installed a radeon 9800 pro 128mb. I'm using a Pc Chips 848A
m/board (I know they are not the best - m/boards next on my upgrade list),
an athlon 2000xp and 512k ram.

My problem is the system is only stable when I check everything to off in
Smartgart (PCI and AGP read and write). When I click the 'retest all' it
suggests everything should be switched on (which will continuosly crash
the machine).
Click to expand...

Is that fastwrites? If so, then don't worry - leave them off, the
performance hit is not great.
I've installed the latest AGP drivers for my m/board. AGP speed is set to
8x and aperture to 128Mb. Someone suggested I run "AGPMem" which reports
I have 0 AGP memory?!
Click to expand...

I don't know what that app is.
Best result I've had in aquamark 3 is only 22k. Something's wrong isn't
it?
Click to expand...

CPU? Hmm, just did a check on aquamark3 arc, and it seems there are scores
ranging from 34k to under 20k for that cpu and card. I can't see any major
differences in system spec - there are maybe 6 pages above 30k, then over
the next 3 pages or so it drops to under 20, so it seems an the rarer side,
but you are by no means alone.

I wonder what the reason is?

Ben
 
Themroc said:
A bit low.I had around 25k with 2000+,PC133 SDRAM and 9700pro.
Click to expand...

I know. I think the problem lies with my crappy PC Chips (M848A rev
2.1)motherboard. Which m/board were you using?
 
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