AGP Settings & WinXP

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Recently upgraded from 98SE to XP Pro. Everything seems to work
properly except the AGP settings functionality. When running 98SE, the
AGP setting speed defaulted to 4X. Now, it defaults to off and won't
set any higher. Ran SMARTGART and both AGP Write & Read are set to off
and will not turn on. The only place it becomes noticeable is running
NHL 2004. Used to be able to run the game at the highest resolution my
system supports (1280 x 1064). If I run it that high, the game play
shuts the game kicks me back to the desktop and I can't run it higher
than 800 x 600 without the game play becoming choppy.
I've downloaded the latest IDE Bus Master, AGP, and IRQ drivers for
my system, set AGP BIOS to manual and the speed to 4, and
uninstalled/reinstalled the latest ATI XP driver (6.14) and Cat 4.4, but
nothing seems to work. Anyone have an idea of what I haven't done? Cheers

Theo

AMD Duron 1.3
Radeon 7200
 
Theo Weber said:
Recently upgraded from 98SE to XP Pro. Everything seems to work
properly except the AGP settings functionality. When running 98SE, the
AGP setting speed defaulted to 4X. Now, it defaults to off and won't
set any higher. Ran SMARTGART and both AGP Write & Read are set to off
and will not turn on. The only place it becomes noticeable is running
NHL 2004. Used to be able to run the game at the highest resolution my
system supports (1280 x 1064). If I run it that high, the game play
shuts the game kicks me back to the desktop and I can't run it higher
than 800 x 600 without the game play becoming choppy.
I've downloaded the latest IDE Bus Master, AGP, and IRQ drivers for
my system, set AGP BIOS to manual and the speed to 4, and
uninstalled/reinstalled the latest ATI XP driver (6.14) and Cat 4.4, but
nothing seems to work. Anyone have an idea of what I haven't done? Cheers

Theo

AMD Duron 1.3
Radeon 7200
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What type of motherboard?

Jim
 
You didn't by any chance "updated" driver during the switch of graphics
board...

The latest drivers from ATI isn't always the best...

/ J
 
I didn't switch cards, just upgraded to WinXP. I installed the
latest WinXP drivers. Was running the latest for Win98SE drivers prior
to the upgrade without problem.
 
you need to install the via agp driver (if you have this chipset) or
if your motherboard uses a different chipset install their drivers,
this is usually the problem!!

hope this helps....
 
Doesn't help. As I said in my original post, I have installed the
agp driver. I'm upgrading to the latest right now (4.51), but I'm not
very hopeful.
 
Let us know if it is successful. I was thinking about the VIA drivers too.
Which include the driver for the brown AGP slot on the motherboard, not the
AGP card. Get the most UTD:
http://www.viaarena.com/
Download the latest Hyperion 4 in 1 package and when installed, it will
update only the drivers needed on the motherboard. Which looks like the 4.51
you mentioned below.

By the way, did you do an upgrade over top of your Win98 installation, or
did you fdisk and reformat the hard drive for a nice clean install?

Jim
 
4.51 drivers installed. Still no capability to turn on AGP settings
in SMARTGART.
I did the upgrade over top of Win98SE. Didn't want to spend the
time loading all software back on. Maybe I should have given the issues
I'm having now!
 
If you do decide to do the complete wipe and install, remember to install
the VIA 4 in 1 drivers right after installing XP.

When XP first came out I did the upgrade over top of WinME (don't remind me)
which had been on the box for about a year.....When I finally got around to
do a "clean install" upgrade, I wished I had done it sooner :)

4.51 drivers installed. Still no capability to turn on AGP settings in
SMARTGART.
I did the upgrade over top of Win98SE. Didn't want to spend the time
loading all software back on. Maybe I should have given the issues I'm
having now!

Jim in Canada wrote:

Let us know if it is successful. I was thinking about the VIA drivers too.
Which include the driver for the brown AGP slot on the motherboard, not the
AGP card. Get the most UTD:
http://www.viaarena.com/
Download the latest Hyperion 4 in 1 package and when installed, it will
update only the drivers needed on the motherboard. Which looks like the 4.51
you mentioned below.

By the way, did you do an upgrade over top of your Win98 installation, or
did you fdisk and reformat the hard drive for a nice clean install?

Jim


Doesn't help. As I said in my original post, I have installed the
agp driver. I'm upgrading to the latest right now (4.51), but I'm not
very hopeful.

tr33lo wrote:


you need to install the via agp driver (if you have this chipset) or
if your motherboard uses a different chipset install their drivers,
this is usually the problem!!

hope this helps....
 
On an unrelated (I don't think), I ran MSInfo32.exe and it seems
that 5 devices are sharing IRQ 9 - an MS ACPI compliant system, the
Radeon 7200, the USB Host Controller, Creative SB Live, and the modem.
Could this mass using 1 IRQ be causing some of my problem?
 
Possibly. IRQ9 on my system consists of: ATI TV wonder BtCap, WDM Audio
Capture, when I set my BIOS to have "Plug & Play OS" set to No.

When I set it to Yes, I have nothing on IRQ9 (doesn't even show up on the
list). The above mentioned items move to IRQ22, along with Microsoft
ACPI-Compliant System, NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller.

Now I am using an older nvidia Ti on this computer I am on now, and it is
still reporting 4X. (I will try these settings on my other ATI machine and
see what happens) A little curious....

Jim
 
Theo Weber said:
On an unrelated (I don't think), I ran MSInfo32.exe and it seems
that 5 devices are sharing IRQ 9 - an MS ACPI compliant system, the
Radeon 7200, the USB Host Controller, Creative SB Live, and the modem.
Could this mass using 1 IRQ be causing some of my problem?
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Sharing IRQ assignments is not supposed to be a problem with modern systems.
Probably everyone on this group using XP have some shared IRQs.
 
Sharing IRQ assignments is not supposed to be a problem with modern systems.
Probably everyone on this group using XP have some shared IRQs.
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I agree. With all the devices we have now it is practically impossible
not to share IRQ's. My mb has eight USB ports with four USB
controlers, each controller needs an IRQ. That's four IRQ's just for
USB alone. Then I have two Firewire ports, one on the Audigy2
soundcard and one on the mb. There goes another two IRQ's. It all adds
up pretty quick and IRQ's not sharing is impossible on my PC.
 
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