Help AGP stuck at 1x A7N266-VM mobo

[wc]

Hi all...

I've been searching GOOGLE (web & groups) for help on this but can't
find what I'm looking for.

I am trying to get my AGP out of 1x mode and up it to 2 or 4x (utilities
show support up to 4x). There is no "performance option" or "AGP"
setting in my BIOS. Here are the details:

Motherboard:
AMD Athlon XP 1533 MHz
nForce-A7N266VM 04/29/2003 Asus A7N266-VM

AGP Properties:
AGP Version 2.00 enabled
AGP Aperture Size 256 MB
Supported AGP Speeds 1x, 2x, 4x
Current AGP Speed 1x
Fast-Write Supported/Enabled
Side Band Addressing Supported/Enabled

BIOS Properties:
BIOS Type Award Modular BIOS v6.0
Message ASUS A7N266-VM ACPI BIOS Rev 1006
System BIOS Date 04/29/03
Video BIOS Date 03/12/03
Company Phonex Technologies Ltd.

Misc Info:
O/S Windows XP Home Service Pack 1
Video Adapter ATI All-In-Wonder 9600

Drivers are current (updated yesterday night and this morning)

How do I change the AGP speed?

Thanks for any help you can provide!
Mike

 

[wc]

Never mind! Problem appears to be solved.

I went into the Advanced display settings (right click desktop, properties,
settings, advanced) then went to SmartGART. The setting was on 1x, so I
bumped it up to 4x. Had to reboot. When the system came back, the
diagnotics showed AGP was running at 4x!!! Woo Hoo.

Now if I can just get my Envision 17" monitor to clear up...about 2 months
ago it started to look blurry for some reason.

If you replied before I sent this, thanks again for the assistance.

Mike

 

[James Bald]

Let me quote Paul HTH on a different mobo, different card, similar issue:
On a P4C800E delux, ATI 9800Pro... Snipping irrelevent sections for you.
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I was pretty happy, thinking it was all running properly, until
I installed a fresh copy of Powerstrip from entechtaiwan.com.
This told me that AGP texture transfer wasn't enabled. I
couldn't believe this, because I thought that 3DMark needed
it to be enabled. I tried the usual stuff - using the SmartGART
tab, which was telling me that AGP read/write were disabled,
reinstalling Cats, changing the AGP bridge driver (2579) to
a PCI driver, and back to AGP again. What this netted me, is
losing the ability to run 3DMark2001SE at all!

So, I grabbed another spare disk (a 4GB clunker), and did a
clean install of Win2K + SP2 + rest of stuff (trying to match
what is on the clone disk from a revision perspective). This
gave me a working AGP texture transfer and 3DMark2001SE benched at
~17000, versus the ~14000 I got with texture transfer disabled.
My computer has 512MB of memory, 160MB is claimed by the
system, leaving about 350MB for applications. The AGP aperture
is set to 64MB and the video card has 128MB of local memory.

...
So, the only remaining mystery, is why I wasn't able to
clean up the AGP/Texture Transfer problem by uninstalling,
using a driver cleaner, and reinstalling stuff. The clone
disk still has the broken image on it, and as I am
philosophically opposed to having to reinstall an OS, I'll
try for a bit longer to fix up that image. Since that
image originally started as Win98, upgraded to Win98SE,
upgraded to Win2K, the startup sound on the system is
still the original one, and not the Win2K startup sound.
There is a lot of history on that disk, and a lot of software
I wouldn't want to have to reinstall. I couldn't believe
how clean the desktop looked, on the clean test install
-----------

Unfortunately this kind of thing happened to me as well years ago, after playing with Video drivers.
Cleaning-up the issue properly in the registry should theoritically allow for a fresh reinstall of vid drivers,
in a proper way.. Which is sometimes tricky.
When this happened to me on an older mobo, I also failed, and had to reinstall the OS from an older
Ghost backup... Quicker for me.

"Never give-up, never surrender.."
This is fixable.

Her's what I would try first...
1 Isolate the issue by reducing AGP apperture, and fast-write off... Check.
......[ mork calling Orson...Mork calling orson.......
(I am a veteran gold diger on Goodle, so...
http://hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/1584/?o=640
-------- (This part)
Re: HELP!!! ASUS A7N266-VM
Figured out how to do it. Seems when I installed my catalyst drivers, I didnt install the control panel. So I went re-downloaded
it, and there is a setting in there to switch. Simple as that.

Overall didn't gain much, my score jumped just over 100 in 3DMark03. I'm now just over 3600.

 

[James Bald]

wc wrote in message ...

Never mind! Problem appears to be solved.

I went into the Advanced display settings (right click desktop, properties,
settings, advanced) then went to SmartGART. The setting was on 1x, so I
bumped it up to 4x. Had to reboot. When the system came back, the
diagnotics showed AGP was running at 4x!!! Woo Hoo.

Thanks for sharing ! It might come to use for me later.

Now if I can just get my Envision 17" monitor to clear up...about 2 months
ago it started to look blurry for some reason.

* Blurry.. You could check if there is hidden focus POT inside the monitor casing,
close to High-Voltage,,,(.. BEWARE...) Use plastic screwdrivers only.
* Fuzzy.. Happened to me on an old monitor...I fixed it by opening the case "poking"
miscellaneous connectors until I found one was offering flaky contacts. I cleaned it,
and the fuzzyness is gone... Years of use, oxydation takes its toll.

(1) poking.. Using a non-conductive long stick. carefully press the connector(s) and monitor effects.

Beware that I'm not a specialist in these matters.. I don't want you get electrocuted either.

If you replied before I sent this, thanks again for the assistance.

Mike

U're Welcome.

 

[wc]

Thanks for the help, James.

When I get more time, I may just rip open the monitor case and have a
look. I know the outside was dusty, so maybe that could part of the
problem inside as well?

I don't have any plastic screwdrivers. I also don't want to create my
own electric chair either, so I guess that's first on my list of things
to get.

The ATI card I bought allows 2 monitors, so I'm reading/replying this on
my very old Compaq 140 monitor.

Thanks again!