My VisionTek GF3 Ti 200 is stuck in AGP(PCI Mode)

[Instan00dles]

or thats what windows says. in powerstrip it says agp is disabled and I cant enable any agp transfer modes. in dxdiag is says agp texturing is disabled and the "enable" button is grayed out. In my bios the main vidcard setting is set to AGP an I have tried to reinstall the via 4in1's under windows xp but that didnt help either. is there anyways of fixing this problem. I can get grandia 2 to run and I am trying to get the comp with the GeForce 3 in pci mode setting to match mine to see if that was a problem. when I start up my computer that has a chaintech GeForce 3 Ti 200 I get that screen that says GeForce 3 AGP bios screen. when I start up the comp with the card in AGP(pci mode) I dont get that screen, does that not happen with visionTek cards or is it possible I got a broken card?

 

[Brian48]

If the card was broke, it wouldn't work period and not just get stuck in PCI mode.

Two things. One, you didn't install the 4in1's correctly in "Turbo" mode. Two, more likely, you have AGP 4x disabled in your BIOS and/or your AGP aperature size is set too low. Usually, it's the in the BIOS where you'd find the culprit,....... especially with the aperature size.

 

[Rand]

Have you check the AGP Aperture size in the BIOS?
Most of the time with complaints like this it tends to be something as simple as the AGP Aperture set to 8MB or below.

 

[BFG10K]

Set your AGP aperture size to 128 MB and make sure you have the latest BIOS and chipset drivers installed for your system (be sure to install the 4-in-1s in turbo mode). Also make sure you don't have any IRQ conflicts with your video card and something else in your system.

 

[Instan00dles]

Well my agp apeature is at 64mb and since it is windows XP everything is sharing IRQ9. I forogt to turn that setting off in the bios before installing windows xp so I cant change any IRQ's.

 

[Brian48]

Don't worry about the IRQ's for now. Set the aperature to 128mb and LOOK for an option to enable 4x AGP for AGP support. It's not always turned on by default.

 

[dummy2001]

What do you mean by install 4-in-1's in Turbo mode? My setup offered "quickly" and "normally" install, what is Turbo?

 

[Instan00dles]

Well I downloaded the newest agp drivers from via's website and when I run the installer I get to the screen saying what is gonna be installed and that they recomend to close all running program, I click next and it quist to the desktop. it does that in both safe mode and normal... I am gonna try some win98 action tonite and see how that works.