Need help-AGP functions in Asus BIOS

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The BIOS for my Asus A7V8X-X has various AGP functions, most of which I find
very confusing and the manual does not clarify these, it just tells me the
different options. Can anyone help clarify the following:
"Graphics aperture size", should I set this for 128MB (my ATI 9200 card) or
leave it at 64MB?
And for the following, a big collective HUH!!! ....
AGP Drive strength? options are manual or auto
AGP Drive N Control? options are 0 to F, default is E
AGP Drive P Control? options are 0 to F, default is F
AGP Performance control? enable or disable
AGP Fast write control? enable or disable
All help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!
Regards,
DL
 
DL said:
The BIOS for my Asus A7V8X-X has various AGP functions, most of which I
find very confusing and the manual does not clarify these, it just tells
me the different options. Can anyone help clarify the following:
"Graphics aperture size", should I set this for 128MB (my ATI 9200 card)
or leave it at 64MB?
And for the following, a big collective HUH!!! ....
AGP Drive strength? options are manual or auto
AGP Drive N Control? options are 0 to F, default is E
AGP Drive P Control? options are 0 to F, default is F
AGP Performance control? enable or disable
AGP Fast write control? enable or disable
All help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!
Regards,
DL
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I have the ATI 9200 card (Radeon) in an A7V880. In BIOS the default graphic
aperture size is 128MB. AGP Mode defaults to [AGP 8X]. I've left the other
parameters at their default value of [Disabled]: AGP Read Synchronization,
AGP Fast Write, AGP Master 1 W/S Read, AGP Master 1 W/S Write.

The other functions you list aren't list as such in my BIOS.

FWIW
 
Graphics Aperture=generally 64mb, you want the ATI to handle textures, not
flog it off onto your own memory (slowing shit down unnecessarily)
Drive Strength/Nc Control/P Control=buggered if I know, defaults I guess
Performance Control=enable
Fast Writes=disable for ATI cards
....but the only real settings you need worry about is aperture and
fastwrites, the others can probably be left as default/auto.
 
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