AGP/PCI bus speed...

sodcha0s

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I'm having problems with American McGee's Alice crashing. Did all the driver updates, DX check, yadda-yadda... Anyway, I was using SiSoft Sandra to help with hardware diagnosis, and it is reporting that all of my busses are overclocked, AGP is 102Mhz, PCI is at 51 Mhz, ISA speed is at 13Mhz, and DMA speed is 7Mhz. Now I really don't know for sure if this is being reported correctly, but if it is it would certainly explain a lot of problems, especially the game crashing.

My System:

Asus A7V
AMD Athlon T-Bird 800
256MB pc133 Ram
Creative TnT2 Ultra
Sondblaster Live X-Gamer
Acer 50x CD Rom
TDK Velo-cd 8/4/32 ReWriter
Windows Me

I have the latest Mobo drivers and bios update. (awd 1007)
Using 650 Detonator vid drivers and have the newest sound drivers, and Me comes with DX7a. Does anybody know of a utility that could tell me for sure what my bus speeds are? And if they are overclocked, how do I fix it? The only BIOS settings regarding bus speed are the CPU bus (set at 100), and the DRAM clock, also set to 100. There are no bus divider settings in the BIOS that I can tell. Any help with this is greatly appreciated!
 

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My guess is you are using and older version of Sandra, anything but the current version has problems recognizing info from some AMD and VIA chipsets...
 

sodcha0s

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Thanks, but I just downloaded the latest version of Sandra. Any other share/freeware utilities that you know of that could tell me at what speed my busses are running?