Having a problem with my AGP settings

[Avalon]

Got my eVGA 6800, and I've been benchmarking it today. My scores seem slightly off, though. It's currently at stock with the forceware 66.93 WHQL drivers, and I get a 3dmark03 score of 7648 with highest image quality detail selected in my driver panel. Vsync is naturally off, as well as AF/AA. 3dmark settings normal. When I set the image quality setting down to normal quality and enabled trilinear filtering optimization, I still only got around 7500. I know most people with stock 6800 cards are getting roughly into the 8000s. My system:

AMD AXP Mobile 35w 2400+ @ 2.3ghz
Epox 8RDA3i NF2-400U motherboard
2x512MB Geil PC3200
eVGA 6800 128MB
Enlight 420W PSU

I have the newest rivatuner installed at the moment. Under drive settings, I hit customize and went to system settings. Under the AGP tab, it says my AGP transfer rate is at PCI. 3dmark 2003 says my AGP rate is only at 4x. My bios has AGP enabled. Under my system hardware device manager, under the list of system devices, I do not see AGP or a PCI to AGP bridge. I had thought there was supposed to be. I have two PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridges installed. I don't think that looks right.

I'm not sure what's going on here. What do you guys think?
Any input would be appreciated.

 

[Bucksnort]

reinstall motherboard chipset drivers.

 

[Viper96720]

7500's comparde to 8000's is ok. The cpu is probably why your scores is little lower. 500pts isn't much really.

 

[Avalon]

My CPU is better than most in the ORB database. Besides, the CPU means very little in '03. There were plenty of entries of stock thoroughbred CPUs with lesser system specs getting in the 8000s stock. I softmodded the card successfully, and my score rose to 8200. Even though 3dmark isn't a game, it is a comparison, and it's definitely raising a red flag. My softmodded card is losing to stock cards. I think it may be something to do with my motherboard drivers being quirked. I downloaded the newest drivers off the net and reinstalled them. That fixed my dual PCI-to-PCI bridge problem, and I now have AGP showing up in my system devices. I'm going to re-run the benchmark and see if that solved my problem.

 

[Avalon]

After driver reinstall, and softmod, got a 9486. Problem solved. Thanks.

 

[Viper96720]

I don't trust orb results some users overclock but don't say so in their results.

 

[Avalon]

Well, the average scores on these forums are the same as most on ORB.
Either way, works great. The card is considerably faster than my 9700, except for when I crank AA/AF, then it doesn't seem as big of a gap. I haven't done any actual number benchmarking yet, so we'll see. If my christmas buy list gets too long, I may just sell the card so I can afford gifts