Help Me!(AGP card is stuck in PCI mode)

[Epyon9283]

My geforce 2 gts is stuck in PCI mode. I think that may have something to do with the horrible performance I have been getting lately. I tried to use both NVMax and Powerstrip to turn AGP back on and I have had no luck. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?

 

[XWolfsraider]

You should be able to change it in the bios from pci to agp

i had a p3 that did that with an ati card (didnt know you had to switch the settings in the bios)
after upgrading from matrox pci

 

[Epyon9283]

There is no way to enable or disable AGP in my bios. The only option is to use 4x and that is enabled.

 

[Epyon9283]

This is what PowerStrip had to say about my vid card:
It says that AGP is disabled. My question is, how did it get that way and how in the hell do I enable it?!


Diagnostic report - generated on 12/18/2001
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PowerStrip build - 238
Windows build - v.5.1.2600.2
DirectX build - v.5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148)
OpenGL renderer - (n/a)

System board
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CPU speed - 1402 MHz
Type - VIA 8363-686B-6A6LMA19C-64
BIOS - Award Bios, 11/07/2001
AGP aperture - 256 MB
AGP transfer mechanism - Disabled
AGP non-local memory - (n/a)
AGP driving value - DAh (N-ctrl=13, P-ctrl=10)
AGP revision - 2.00
AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x
Current AGP transfer rate - (n/a)
Sideband addressing - hardware support, but currently disabled
Fast write protocol - hardware support, but currently disabled
AGP texturing - (n/a)

Graphics card #1
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Identity - NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro
Memory clock - 332.89 MHz
Engine clock - 199.66 MHz
IRQ - 10, not shared
AGP revision - 2.00
AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x
Current AGP transfer rate - (n/a)
Sideband addressing - (n/a)
Display driver - nv4_disp.dll, v.6.13.10.2311
DirectX driver - nv4_disp.dll, v.6.13.10.2311
Attached monitor - Sylvania F97 (Sylvania)
Monitor caps (1) - 1600x1200, 96kHz, 150Hz

Device enumeration
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NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro (015010DEh) - using IRQ10
Abit CPU-to-PCI/AGP bridge (03051106h)
VIA PCI-to-PCI/AGP bridge (83051106h)
Abit PCI-to-ISA bridge (06861106h)
VIA IDE controller (05711106h)
VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ5
VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ5
VIA Power management controller (30571106h)
D-Link Ethernet controller (30431106h) - using IRQ11
TBS / Voyetra Audio device (60031013h) - using IRQ12

 

[Jeff7]

Download the latest 4-in-1 drivers from VIA's website once it comes back online. (I can't seem to access it now.)

 

[Epyon9283]

I have the latest ones that dont BSOD me on startup. The newer 4.36 drivers I think they are the 4.36(3) or whatever crash my computer on startup so I cant use them. I'll try reinstalling the older 4.36 drivers.

 

[Epyon9283]

I just installed the 4in1 drivers and it did nothing at all. Anyone have any other ideas?

 

[eplebnista]

Have you tried using different versions of Nvidia drivers to see if your current video card driver might be the culprit?

eplebnista

 

[Doh!]

You're using Abit KT7A, right? (at least according to your sig.) Then there should a setting for AGP versus PCI for your video card. Look carefully.

 

[eplebnista]

Here is a link to some more info.

Link 1

hth,
eplebnista

 

[Pul54r]

Try this - I see you are running windows XP. The only thing that will install on the Via 4 in 1's in XP is the .inf unless you right click the setup / intall file and tell it to install in win2k compatibility mode. See what that does for you. You should be able to force the AGP driver install that way and you may get up and running.

 

[Epyon9283]

I got it working late last night. I uninstalled the 4.10 VIA AGP drivers and used the default windows ones. When that happened, I deleted many registry entries that I thought might be causing the problem. It turns out that at least one of them was because I reinstalled the 4.10 drivers and the nvidia drivers and it worked fine. It was really strange. Also, Doh, Where exactly is the setting for AGP in the bios? The only one that came close to that was which slot got initialized first PCI or AGP.

 

[chizow]

<< Also, Doh, Where exactly is the setting for AGP in the bios? The only one that came close to that was which slot got initialized first PCI or AGP. >>



Looks like you found it Definitely sounds like a driver issue (that you resolved) though, I can leave that setting to either AGP or PCI with only an AGP card installed and it makes no difference. The times you would want to ensure that was set correctly would be if you had an onboard AGP, or you had a secondary PCI card installed.

Chiz

 

[BFG10K]

A rather simple solution really - make sure that your AGP aperture size is at least 32 MB in your BIOS.