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Motherboard Problem (EpoX 8K7A+)...... video lag.

edro

edro

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I am getting some video lag in Asheron's Call 2 and I have noticed that the HDD light blinks everytime it lags. It seems to do it when loading the textures. I have a Radeon 8500 and it works great in everything else. Sometimes it works PERFECT in the game, but when it starts to lag, it gets real choppy.
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Anyways..... I just noticed a corralation. Whenever it lags, the little 2 digit LED thingy on my motherboard blinks "70". Normally it is "60", but everytime it lags, it flips to "70", then back to "60".

In my manual "60" means "Okay to Enter Setup Utility". It always says "60" so I think that is normal. What I need to know is.....what "70" means. In the manual is just says "Reserved". There are a lot of Hex numbers that mean "Reserved", but I wanna know what the heck it means.

Anyone know what the "Reserved" codes mean? Anyone know what my problem could be?
 
Something you might not be aware of - that dual 7-segment display's output is ONLY valid on boot-up. The thing is, during normal system operation (after it's done booting), the motherboard will end up having signals sent to those displays just as a result of normal activity. However, it doesn't mean anything at that point. Once you hit FF (if I remember, that's the final output during regular boot), anything you read from there on in is irrelevent.

Sorry to point this out since it did seem to be a good lead to follow for you, but unfortunately it doesn't mean anything (well, at least, it doesn't mean what you're associating it with). AFAIK, the "reserved" spots are there simply because, well, they're reserved in case anything changed in the boot/POST process, from a BIOS update or what-not.

As for what the problem might be, since the hard drive acts up, it's possible that's when your system is being forced to read/write from virtual memory rather than your normal memory. Now, remember, AGP aperture exists to let your video card use some of your system's memory - but if that memory is being overtaxed, it might fall over to virtual memory.

That's just one theory off the top of my head. Hope you find an answer.
 
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