Hi guys,
I thought I had a great system until this problem came and nipped me in the butt! If anyone could shed some light on the problem I would muchly appreciate it.
I have the following system
2.4C Pentium 4 (not overclocked)
Asus P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard
Radeon 9500 pro
1 DIMM 512 MB Corsair PC3200 2.5CAS RAM
Antec Sonata Case
Stock Cooling
The system has never been able to detect that i have an agp 8x card and consistantly in sandrasoft and 3dmark it would be detected as 4x. So in trying to fix it I did the following.
1) I installed the Catalyst 3.5 Drivers
- error still there
2) Updated the intel inf drivers from intel from this link
- now system crashes when attempting to play games
3) Update to Catalyst 3.6 Driver
- Now system is stable and doesn't crash when attempting to play games (at least as far as tested) but card detected as 4x still. 3dmark scores increased 700 points from step 1's results!
4) Updated the P4P800 Bios to 1.008
- Now system is unstable cannot play games and card can't be detected propperly (is detected as "unknown 32bit 3.3V Shared PME Halflength Availible")
Now I'm at a loss for what to do. It seems that whatever I do I can't get the card detected at 8x. I could flash bios again (go to an earlier bios config) and hope that somehow it resolves it. What do you guys think I should I do. I'm really at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks in advance!
PS. Does anyone have a link to a older version of the bios? The oldest i can get on the ASUS site is 1.006
I thought I had a great system until this problem came and nipped me in the butt! If anyone could shed some light on the problem I would muchly appreciate it.
I have the following system
2.4C Pentium 4 (not overclocked)
Asus P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard
Radeon 9500 pro
1 DIMM 512 MB Corsair PC3200 2.5CAS RAM
Antec Sonata Case
Stock Cooling
The system has never been able to detect that i have an agp 8x card and consistantly in sandrasoft and 3dmark it would be detected as 4x. So in trying to fix it I did the following.
1) I installed the Catalyst 3.5 Drivers
- error still there
2) Updated the intel inf drivers from intel from this link
- now system crashes when attempting to play games
3) Update to Catalyst 3.6 Driver
- Now system is stable and doesn't crash when attempting to play games (at least as far as tested) but card detected as 4x still. 3dmark scores increased 700 points from step 1's results!
4) Updated the P4P800 Bios to 1.008
- Now system is unstable cannot play games and card can't be detected propperly (is detected as "unknown 32bit 3.3V Shared PME Halflength Availible")
Now I'm at a loss for what to do. It seems that whatever I do I can't get the card detected at 8x. I could flash bios again (go to an earlier bios config) and hope that somehow it resolves it. What do you guys think I should I do. I'm really at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks in advance!
PS. Does anyone have a link to a older version of the bios? The oldest i can get on the ASUS site is 1.006
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