9500 Pro Problems running in 8X AGP

[KROME]

first off let me give you my specs then ill ask the question

Gigabyte GA-7VAXP
1900+ XP
512 DDR 400Mhz
500 Watt Enermax PS
9500 Pro from Sapphire
Seagate Barricuda 7200

Latest Drivers 3.2 from ATI
Direct X 9
Rienstalled XP with all updates applied

what happens is that everytime i try to use the card at 8X AGP it either locks up while playing any games (MOHAA, UT2003,CaslteWolf,Unreal2) or i experience green colors and what seems like ghosting on the screen i have also updated to latest bios for motherboard and still the same thing occurs it has worked fine in the past but these last few days it starting acting wierd i have since switched back to 4X AGP and everything works flawlessly even at 1280x1024

any help would be great

 

[Guspaz]

Don't worry, there is no performance gain at all from going to AGP 8x, especially on a 9500 Pro.

Just use 4x.

 

[KROME]

ok i was just wondering why all of a sudden it started doing that when it use to work fine before?

 

[Guspaz]

No clue... Maybe check BIOS settings to make sure nothing has been set that might make it unstable?

 

[KROME]

 

[JBT]

I have heard that just 8x agp is unstable try just doing 4x that should help.