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Why can't AGP be enabled?

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abeal2

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I have 9600 pro with chaintech MPM800 (via chipset) with windows xp sp1. i installed the latest via driver as well as the old 4.53 driver as well as ati's newest driver but nothing helps. when i go to control panel, the smartgart thingy says agp is set to off. when i do retest, it still says off. when i turn it to 8x and reboot, it turns back to off. i have turned agp to 8x in bios setting. in the windows add/remove menu, it doesn't show via hyperion as being installed. i didn't know how i can check to see if it's installed or not. any clue?


Aperture size: 128MB
AGP 3.0: 8x
AGP Driving Control: Auto
AGP fast write: disabled
agp master 1 ws write: enabled
agp master 1 ws read: enabled
agp 3.0 calibration: enabled
vga shared memory: 64mb
 
i am not 100% sure if this mobo has onboard video or not. but if there is, it doesn't seem like the bios has a setting to turn it off. i didn't see anything that says turn off onboard video in the onboard peripheral menu. there were a couple of settings that were unfamiliar to me though.
 
Reinstall your mobo chipset drivers. You need to install the 4 in 1's after you install the ATI drivers. You may also need to reinstall DX9.
 
Originally posted by: abeal2
Originally posted by: Bucksnort
reinstall via chipset. That will fix you.
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i have done that so many times this morning, it's not even funny. i have gone through this exact procedure recommended to me by someone on arstechnica. doesn't seem to help either 🙁

you say that you have installed all the correct VIA drivers; does this include the GART driver? - AGP won't work without that.

If I were you I would remove all video drivers -there's an app you can download from the ATI site that clears everything off - don't just use the uninstall that comes with your current drivers. Go back to using the default VGA driver that comes with your OS.

Restart the PC.

Then remove all the VIA drivers.

Restart the PC.

Reinstall the latest VIA 4-in-1 (can't remember if this includes the GART software - if not, install this next). Once you've rebooted install the latest ATI drivers - if you're BIOS settings are correct you should be up and running."
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also, here are my mobo settings for AGP:

Aperture size: 128MB
AGP 3.0: 8x
AGP Driving Control: Auto
AGP fast write: disabled
agp master 1 ws write: enabled
agp master 1 ws read: enabled
agp 3.0 calibration: enabled
vga shared memory: 64mb
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You have to install the VIA drivers after you install the ATI drivers. Smartgart sometimes turns off your AGP support. This is a common problem with smartgart. Experiment with the order of the drivers ATI/DX9/4in1 and you will get it working.
 
Originally posted by: LTC8K6
Br, you've nailed it. It does have onboard video which is probably contributing to the difficulties.
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i don't see anything that can turn off onboard video. as you can see on the listing of the agp features, there is nothing about onboard video. i have looked in peripheral also and there's nothing in there. only usb, parallel, serial, ide, etc.
 
Video Subsystem Integrated 128-bit UniChrome Pro GFX 2D/3D graphics accelerator
Full frame DVD audio and video playback
Shared system memory up to 64MB


According to Chaintech. Gimme a minute and I'll see if I can find out how to disable it.
 
It may disable if it reconizes that there is a discreet video card installed. Most onboard mobo's I've had would auto-detect and turn off the onboard video if it detected a discreet video card.



Jason
 
looks like the manual does have nothing on it. lol.

have you tried taking out your AGP card and using the onboard video first? then maybe an option to disable it shows up?
 
You should be able to figure this out. You've either still got the onboard enabled, or you've got Unichrome driver interference. Maybe driver cleaner would help?

You can also go to ATI's driver pages and download the Smartgart remover tool. You don't really need Smartgart for the drivers to work correctly.

DXDIAG should show AGP texture acceleration enabled when you get this working.
 
Originally posted by: bR
looks like the manual does have nothing on it. lol.

have you tried taking out your AGP card and using the onboard video first? then maybe an option to disable it shows up?
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haven't tried that yet. ughhhh, this is a pain in the rear.
 
Uninstall video card drivers, and 4 in 1 should have an uninstall in the add remove for it. Restart cancel install if install thing pops up. Install ati driver then via driver try the one from chaintech
 
this must be fixed....cant have our man suffering the wrath of unichrome grpahics!

in the bios there may be a way to turn it off, tho it may not look like it, when i tried to turn on board audio off on my board there was no "on board Audio" "off/on"

it was given a more discrete name of audio controller

maybes u have something similar?

how about a bios update?
 
Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
this must be fixed....cant have our man suffering the wrath of unichrome grpahics!

in the bios there may be a way to turn it off, tho it may not look like it, when i tried to turn on board audio off on my board there was no "on board Audio" "off/on"

it was given a more discrete name of audio controller

maybes u have something similar?

how about a bios update?
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updated bios already. called up tech support and they said when an agp card is placed in, onboard gets disabled automatically. they can't fix my problem :\
 
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