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  • ATI RADEON oin WIN XP PCI MODE

    'm running a ATI RADEON VE 64 MB on an GIGABYTE KA-7ZX with a VIA KT133 chipset. The processor is an Athlon 850 GHz, and my OS is Windows XP professional.

    I recently purchased the ATI RADEON VE, hoping for a large improvement in performance. However, with further inspection, I noticed that in the display properties (under the 'advanced' tab) that the card is reported to be "AGP (PCI mode)". I was pretty angered after reading this. What sense is there in having an AGP card that isn't using AGP?

    I began to do some research on VIA chipsets and ATI graphics cards, and turned up a few possible fixes. All which didn't solve the problem. I have the latest 4in1 drivers. As well, I downloaded and installed the 4.37 AGP drivers.

    However, in the device manager, under the 'System Devices' group, I still lack the "VIA CPU to AGP controller", which would probably explain my lack of AGP acceleration. Any ideas on how I can get AGP functioning on my system?

    As an added note: In dxdiag, under the display tab, the AGP texture acceleration is grey'd out. And this card most definitely supports it. Any idea what the hell is going on here?

    WHEN I CHANGE MY BIOS SETTING TO RUN AGP 4X WINDOWS XP TURN IN A BLACK SCREEN.

    I installed last ATI RAdeon Drivers 6.13.3276

    Thank you for your time,

    CARLOS

  • #2
    Try re-installing the AGP driver again and make sure that you do it in the Turbo setting. :smokin:
    <center>:cheers:</center>

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    • #3
      I re install Via AGP drivers 4.10 in 4X mode, so now i can see in my system properties the AGP to CPU bridge , then i reinstall the ATI drivers again, but Windows say again my card is a PCI Video CARD.ONT SAY IN TURBO MODE ????

      THE VIA 4.37 4 IN 1 DRIVERS DONT EVEN SAY THAT ITS INTALLING VIA AGP DRIVERS, MAYBE THE BVIA 4.37 DRIVERS ARE NOT GOOD FOR WINDOWS XP.

      Any other suggestions. ???

      THANKS

      Carlos

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      • #4
        I found the 3276 driver's to be crap & had a lot of problems with them...I think they were the initial WinXP release.
        Try the 6018's or 6032's - I find them to work much better.

        I don't know if will solve the problem your having though, 4X AGP still worked for me with the 3276's

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        • #5
          I read an interesting idea over at tweakxp.com saying that if you run the setup.exe (of the 4 in 1) under compatibily mode and have it set as "win2000" it'll install all the agp drivers. That idea sounds dodgy to me so I haven't tried it. Maybe it's worth giving a go ?

          Have you also poked around in the bios to see if there's anything that could be preventing it from running ? Apparently if the aperature is set too low it'll disable AGP features. Maybe you need to try messing with stuff !

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          • #6
            tHANKS FrodgE


            I TRY THAT AND RUN 4.37 DRIVERS IN wINDOWS 2000 COMPATIBILY AND THATS THE ONLY WAY THE AGP TO CPU CONTROLLERS INSTALLED.

            THE AGP APERTURE IS 128 mb.

            AND I HAVE ANOTHER VIDEO CARD A gFORCE2 MX 200 AND RUNS OK.

            THANKS

            CARLOS

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