Help! can't run at AGP 8x!

[Hyperlite]

I decided it was time to degunk my system and reformat, and i figured i may as well put my WD's in RAID0. thats beside the point...point is, i realized today while trying to play eq2 for the first time that i'm not running at 8x AGP, only 4x. The AGP section in Rivatuner is...greyed out....for some reason, but everest, sandra, and riva all see the 6800 there clear as day, accept everest sees the AGP slot as empty in the slot assignment...

BIOS is of course set to 8x...i don't get it. I have full functionality accept for the fact that the AGP interface is grey in riva and 4x transfer. Its unlocked to 16,6 and OCed to 400core 810mem, just like my sig says, but for some reason i can't change the transfer rate. I've tried 71.89 and 75.90 but niether made a difference...

 

[Hyperlite]

bumpppppppppp

 

[mwmorph]

chipset bios/drivers?
video bios?
get a true fresh reinstall?

 

[Hyperlite]

its not the video bios i don't think, it was working just fine before my reformat(and its modded) . I'll try new chipset drivers tomarrow. i'm on the newest motherboard bios.
thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Stoneburner]

Fastwrite maybe?

 

[gwag]

for me cold start = 8x, restart switches to 4X. dont care really, makes 0 difference on a 5950U.

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: gwag
for me cold start = 8x, restart switches to 4X. dont care really, makes 0 difference on a 5950U.

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fastwrites are disabled in BIOS and riva...

 

[Fenuxx]

If I was to guess, I would say that since different video drivers aren't solving the problem, the mobo's chipset drivers are to blame. Did you make sure to install the latest nForce platform drivers? The latest ones (NOT the nForce4 Standalone Kit) are version 5.10. Make sure these are installed, and then get back to us.