AGP 2.0 or 1.0

[Chappie]

Hello all,

I'm trying to determine if my agp slot is 1.0 or 2.0 compliant. I have used SiSoft Sandra to check this out. Is Sandra a reliable source or should i try something else???

thanks,

Chappie

 

[pillage2001]

First of all, what board is it? Can you specify the specific brand and model?? 🙂

 

[Chappie]

Hello,

Hey pillage2001, thanks for the reply. I am trying to get a geforce4 mx (Abit Siluro) to work in my system. It's an HP PIII900, 512 ram, geforceII mx, etc.... The motherboard is an Asus oem board---CUV-NT. I cannot find any specific info. on it at the Asus site. All i know is that the Geforce4 mx card won't work. After I install it I get one good beep followed by three very quick beeps and no video on my monitor. The system continues to boot up ( I'm pretty sure it does), and will run but I have no video. The Geforce II mx card works great. I thought it might be a power supply problem, but there are many other people that are having this same problem on the HP boards...

So..is Sisoft Sandra an accurate source or is there something more accurate...??

Thanks,
Chappie

 

[AA0]

sisoft should give you good info, not benchmarks.

I use belarc advisor for info on unknown boards.
If you own a prebuilt system, then don't expect to upgrade too far, they are designed to fail so you have to buy a new one.

 

[Budarow]

I know what you mean in trying to "figure" out if your mobo is AGP 2.0 or 1.0 compliant! I'm still confused on the issue (i.e., are they refering to the AGP socket, a connector of some sort, the AGP bus...WHAAAATT!).

I've got an Intel "Seattle" mobo with the "original" BX chipset (it maxs out with a P3 450 MHz cpu and I've got a P2 350 MHz running now) which was first introducted by Intel in March of 1998. I can only tell you that I've run all of the following video cards in this mobo and NEVER had a problem.

1. ATI Rage Charger (4mbs).
2. Voodoo2 (12 mbs).
3. TNT1 (16 mbs).
4. Radeon (32 mbs DDR)
5. GeForce3 Ti200 (64 DDR).

That said...I'm 99% sure that your mobo is "2.0" compliant🙂

 

[AndyHui]

Intel 440LX, EX, BX and ZX chipsets, VIA Apollo Pro 133 (693), MVP3, MVP4, AMD 750, SiS 620, 630 and the ALi Aladdin Pro-5 chipsets are all AGP 1.0 compliant.

All Intel i8xx chipsets, the VIA Apollo 133A (694), all VIA Kxxxx, AMD 760, SiS 74x, 75x, 64x, 65x, and ALi Magik 1 chipsets are all AGP 2.0 compliant.

If the chipset is capable of AGP 4X, it is 2.0 compliant. If it can do just AGP 2X, then it is 1.0 compliant.

 

[AndyHui]

Alright.....this is not going to be easy, as there are several versions of the ASUS CUV-NT, with some pretty significant differences between them.

They should all be socket 370 FC_PGA with a VIA Apollo chipset.; 3 DIMMs, 4 PCI. In terms of video is where they all differ. There are models with an ATI Rage onboard, some with some sort of nVidia TNT/TNT2 (M64/Vanta). They may or may not have an AGP slot for an external AGP card along with the onboard.

Could you please post the markings on the largest VIA chip on the board.....the one nearest the CPU socket. I also need to know if there are large chips between the AGP slot (if it exists) and the PCI slots. Then we can start piecing together exactly which CUV-NT you have.

 

[Chappie]

Hello,

Thanks for the info guys...

Andy, my mb has the Vanta onboard 16 megabyte chip. It does have an AGP slot, which I am currently using( A geforceII mx 32 megabyte card). The geforceIImx card runs just great. As far as what is between the AGP slot and the pci slots....there are 2 black chips there..I believe they are memory chips for the onboard video. Also, there are two empty "outlines" on the mb that are the same size as the two chips between the agp slot and the pci slot. I have not been able to find any jumpers concerning the onboard video.

When I first installed the geforceII mx video card all I did was uninstall the onboard video chip through the add/remove control panel settings. Sandra and Belarc advisor both report my agp slot as being 2.0 compliant. OH yea, I tried the exact same process when I tried to install the geforce4 mx card...same results...one regular beep followed by 3 quick beeps... 🙁

thanks,

Chappie

 

[AndyHui]

A GeForce 2 MX recommends an AGP 2.0 compliant slot. If your GeForce 2 MX works fine in there, there is no reason why a GeForce 4 MX won't.

Are you sure your GeForce 4 is actually working? Have you tried it in another system?

The only thing that I can think of off-hand that can prevent video cards working is a slight undervoltage problem that crops up from time to time on some ASUS boards.

 

[Chappie]

Hello,

Andy, thanks for the info. I have not tried the card in another system, I don't know anyone with an up to date system!! LOL. I'll have to look around or send it back for another one I guess...

Thanks for all the info!!

Chappie