Originally posted by: omgy
No, it does not run from safe mode.
The mainboard is not new (hardware wise), I just can't remember if I ever installed my mainboard drivers. The real problem is my ATI Radeon 9600 PRO doesn't utilize AGP speeds. So, since the Video Drivers are current, I assumed I needed to update/install my mainboard drivers for it to funciton. (The Radeon is the new hardware which is functioning but not to its full extent.)
I have the same motherboard (MSI KT4V-L, either version 1.0 or 1.1, not 2.0), and an FIC ATI Radeon9200 64MB AGP 8x card in there right now, running fine.
I had previously installed the Via 4-in-1 4.43 or 4.45 some time ago, and had a GF2 MX 32MB AGP 4x card in there working as well.
With an AGP 3.0-compliant 4x/8x card, the BIOS will not let you manually select AGP 4x, it displays "AUTO" when in the BIOS setup screens. This chipset/board has been known to have some issues with AGP 8x cards. (I've had minor cold-boot problems myself, when I first installed it.) The only solution know for that is to tape over the AGP auto-detect pins on the card before installing it, to fool the mobo into thinking it's only an AGP 4x card.
As for the Via AGP drivers, you can always try installing them manually. I know that from reading the ViaArena forums in the past, that the newer 4-in-1 ("Hyperion") drivers sometimes have some sort of issue with the new 16-bit installer program that they use. (Yes, even prevents working in Safe Mode, apparently.)
The way to install them manually, is to install a program like WinRAR (
here), download the Via 4-in-1 drivers, and right-click on the installer.exe archive, and "Extract Files..." (pick some temp install directory). Once uncompressed, there should be some subdirectories, like "WinXP", or "Win2K". Inside should be a "VIAAGP1.INF", ".SYS", and ".CAT" file.
Now what you need to do is, using Device Manager, locate your "Via AGP 2.0/3.0 Controller" under the System device category, and tell it to manually update the driver. Point it at the directory containing the proper .INF file that you previously extracted into the temp install directory.
If you have never installed the Via AGP driver before, it may show up as some sort of generic-sounding "PCI bridge" component in the System device category instead. Be careful. One way to tell if it is the AGP controller in disguise, is if you look under the "Resources" property tab, it should show two large memory regions, with the same address-mappings as under your video-card's "Resources" property tab as well.
Those are your AGP aperture.
Hopefully that helps.
I haven't "taped" my card down to AGP 4x, I increased the AGP voltage in the BIOS from "AUTO" to 1.6v. How that works, if AGP 8x is supposed to be 0.8v, I don't know. But it seems slightly more stable now.
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