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AGP Problems

godfire

Member
Ok, so for those of you who read my previous posts, I had a LOT of problems with my new GF4 4200 128MB. Anyway, I finally kinda figured out the problem - the moment I disabled AGP texturing (used rivatuner) everything started working again. Any ideas? Does anybody know how to fix it? I guess things work for now, but it would be a lot better if I could use my card to its full potential.

WindowsXP Pro
AMD 1GHz
MSI 6330 Motherboard
384MB RAM
Geforce4 4200 128MB
Adaptec SCSI 29160 Controller

Thanks for any help you can offer...
 
I am not 100% sure what is the cause of your problem but I have a few ideas.

First- Lots of motherboards require updated AGP port drivers, try to find some off the MSI website
Second- Make sure your motherboard is 4x AGP compatible and it is set to 4x AGP
Third- Try setting your AGP aperture to 128MB in the BIOS
Fourth- You may have an inadequate power supply, make sure it is atleast 250W (300W minimum recommended)
Fifth- Make sure you are using the lastest drivers (try the lastest 30.82 reference drivers from nvidia.com)
Sixth- If you have AGP Fast Writes Enable in your BIOS, disable it. If you have it disabled, enable it. (If everything works keep it enabled.)
Seventh- Once you have tried a few of those, re-enable AGP texturing.
Eighth- Updating the display and AGP drivers may not be enough, update ALL your drivers. I am not too familiar with MSI motherboards for AMD processors so I can't give you a detailed list of what drivers you need.
 
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