A7N8X-E Deluxe--Procedure to set up AGP

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Art Sauder

Hi All
Just finished putting together a system using A7N8X-E. Have an ATI
9600XT installed and am using Windows Me. I have run the install of
the NVidia NForce Drivers from the support CD that came with the mobo.

Currently under Device Manager all I can see is "Standard PCI Graphics
Adapter - VGA . In properties it says it is using a Windows VGA
driver. The 9600XT does not show up in device manager. I can see no
evidence of AGP drivers installed---am not sure what running the
driver install from support CD did with video (it installed audio
fine).
I have not run the installer from the ATI CD yet as the manual
cautions you to be sure you have the correct AGP driver installed for
the mobo chipset (which in this case is NVidia nForce2).
How can I determine if the correct AGP driver is installed?

In looking at the NVidia website, they have a more recent driver for
W98_Me (it is identified as 2.41 WHQL). The id of the vid driver
bundle that is on the support CD is 2.03 WHQL--- this is what
presumably installed when I ran the install from the CD.

Would you recommend installing this new driver? If so, what procedure
would you recommend (can't find any kind of procedure on NVidia site).

would appreciate advice.
Thanks
Art
 
Hi All
Just finished putting together a system using A7N8X-E. Have an ATI
9600XT installed and am using Windows Me. I have run the install of
the NVidia NForce Drivers from the support CD that came with the mobo.

Currently under Device Manager all I can see is "Standard PCI Graphics
Adapter - VGA . In properties it says it is using a Windows VGA
driver. The 9600XT does not show up in device manager. I can see no
evidence of AGP drivers installed---am not sure what running the
driver install from support CD did with video (it installed audio
fine).
I have not run the installer from the ATI CD yet as the manual
cautions you to be sure you have the correct AGP driver installed for
the mobo chipset (which in this case is NVidia nForce2).
How can I determine if the correct AGP driver is installed?

In looking at the NVidia website, they have a more recent driver for
W98_Me (it is identified as 2.41 WHQL). The id of the vid driver
bundle that is on the support CD is 2.03 WHQL--- this is what
presumably installed when I ran the install from the CD.

Would you recommend installing this new driver? If so, what procedure
would you recommend (can't find any kind of procedure on NVidia site).

would appreciate advice.
Thanks
Art
Click to expand...

The Nvidia Nforce drivers are basically for the motherboard chipset, if
you look in Device Manager/System Devices, you should see a listing for
Nvidia Nforce2 AGP Host to PCI bridge (or something very similar) after
you install them.

You still need to install your ATI video card drivers and reboot, once
you do that you should see the ATI card listed in device manger and that
Standard graphics listing will be gone.

I've installed newer Nvidia Nforce drivers right over the older ones
without any problems, but I'm running WinXP Pro not WinME.

Ed
 
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