AGP reading as PCI

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Juneaukid

Hello all,

I have a 9800 Pro AGP that has worked flawlessly for the last year or
two.

Recently I have been having some trouble with crashes while playing EQ2
so I started troubleshooting drivers and such.

During this investigation I found that in the XP Device Manager it is
reading the card as being in the PCI slot.

My motherboard is an ASUS P4p800.

Although I built the PC myself I am kind of a novice when it comes to
BIOS and hardware settings.

Is this even an issue to worry about? Any ideas on where to start
troubleshooting?

Cheers
JuneauKid
 
I had the same problem on an old gigabyte motherboard (not sure about asus
but could be the same prob) so I went thru the bios with a fine tooth comb
and found a setting 'init video as PCI' (or something similar). changed it
to AGP and all was well.
 
Juneaukid said:
Hello all,

I have a 9800 Pro AGP that has worked flawlessly for the last year or
two.

Recently I have been having some trouble with crashes while playing
EQ2 so I started troubleshooting drivers and such.

During this investigation I found that in the XP Device Manager it is
reading the card as being in the PCI slot.

My motherboard is an ASUS P4p800.

Although I built the PC myself I am kind of a novice when it comes to
BIOS and hardware settings.

Is this even an issue to worry about? Any ideas on where to start
troubleshooting?

Cheers
JuneauKid
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If it has the location in Device Manager as "PCI bus 1, device 0, function
0" or something like that, this is normal.

Do your other games crash? If so it might be an overheating problem or a
driver issue somewhere. If it's just that one game than maybe something just
got corrupted in the game itself.
 
Juneaukid said:
Hello all,

I have a 9800 Pro AGP that has worked flawlessly for the last year or
two.

Recently I have been having some trouble with crashes while playing EQ2
so I started troubleshooting drivers and such.

During this investigation I found that in the XP Device Manager it is
reading the card as being in the PCI slot.

My motherboard is an ASUS P4p800.

Although I built the PC myself I am kind of a novice when it comes to
BIOS and hardware settings.

Is this even an issue to worry about? Any ideas on where to start
troubleshooting?

Cheers
JuneauKid
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The AGP slot is on the PCI bus.

I suspect if you have been having no problems, but have started having
problems in only just *one* game that you have acquired recently that
you check for patches in that game.

If you have had the game for a while and also have problems in other
games then check that the graphics card fan is still spinning
properly/not clogged up with dust (same for the CPU fan and other fans
in the system)
 
Had this problem. SiSandra reporting problem "AGP disabled". Also, AGP
settings were disabled in the advanced settings under the ATI panel.
Installing the Intel drivers included with my P4P800SE solved the problem.
 
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