P,
I spoke to the ASUS tech support last evening. They indicated that it was
most likely due the the original RADEON's attempted support for AGP 1 that
is causing the problem.
I checked voltages, etc. that you suggested but all seemed fine. Even tried
a third PS to make sure. At this point I've resigned myself to using an
A7V8X-X Deluxe. The AIW RADEON works really well in this machine and it
seems almost fast enough.
I may swap out for an alternate 400FSB/3200 capable board. Just don't know.
Thans for the input, though.
--R
"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <9w_9e.6957$r53.297@attbi_s21>, "John Smith"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I've recently installed an A7N8X-E Deluxe, replacing my Soyo board. The
>> 3-4
>> year old 32MB Radeon AIW video card was functioning perfectly in the old
>> motherboard. After installing it in the new MB, the POST graphic is
>> distorted (part of the graphic overlays on itself) and when I boot into
>> Windows I occasionally see 'sparkling' in black areas of the screen.
>> Also,
>> the graphics performance is sub-par in that the dxdiag tests for direct3d
>> are a little jumpy and unclear.
>>
>> I place a 64MB Sapphire Radeon card in the machine and all is well.
>>
>> I realize that there could be comething wrong with my main video card,
>> but
>> am hoping there is a frequency/voltage thing I can cahnge to remedy the
>> situation.
>>
>> I appreciate input,
>> --R
>
> Are any of your power supply voltages reading low while
> the AIW video card is in place ? A power problem doesn't
> explain the POST graphic (probably mixed up VESA modes),
> but maybe powering is related to the sparkling problem.
> If the 3.3V is out of spec (lower than 3.1V), that could
> be a problem.
>
> You could try adjusting "AGP VDDQ Voltage" from 1.5V
> to 1.6V, to see if a little more voltage there would
> help. I haven't seen that help too much for most people,
> and hardly ever recommend adjusting the AGP voltage
> any more to people. Maybe worth a try, just for the hell
> of it.
>
> There are also a couple of other AGP settings in the BIOS,
> but with the ATI video card drivers these days, I don't
> know if using the BIOS controls really has any effect on
> the final operation of the system or not. With the
> ATI SmartGART code choosing the AGP 8X / Fast Write
> settings for you, it could be that the BIOS controls don't
> affect what happens in Windows. Perhaps a copy of Powerstrip
> from entechtaiwan.com, can independently verify the settings
> being used by the hardware - Powerstrip should show up in
> your task bar, and the Options menu popup will give you a
> screen showing the current hardware settings. I only use
> Powerstrip for verifying settings, choosing to fix any
> hardware settings problems at the source if possible. That
> way, I can uninstall Powerstrip when I am finished.
>
> Paul
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