Enabeling 8X AGP

[sypher0101]

Hi,

I got a new motherboard with an 8X agp slot and I installed my 8X agp
card, but a LED on the card that suppose to light up when 8X is
enables..doesn't.
I've been though the settings on the BIOS and made sure 8X was enabled
but can't think of anything else that might not be setup.
My current specs are:

Leadtek Winfast TI4200, 128MB, 8X agp video card
ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard
AMD Athlon Xp 1800+ (1.53ghz)
20gb Western Digital HDD (Primary)
40gb Maxtor HDD (secondary)

Can anyone help :?:

ALSO..is there anyway of finding out what the video card is running at
(4x,8x agp) without looking at the BIOS ??

 

[Conor]

Hi,

I got a new motherboard with an 8X agp slot and I installed my 8X agp
card, but a LED on the card that suppose to light up when 8X is
enables..doesn't.
I've been though the settings on the BIOS and made sure 8X was enabled
but can't think of anything else that might not be setup.
My current specs are:

Leadtek Winfast TI4200, 128MB, 8X agp video card
ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard
AMD Athlon Xp 1800+ (1.53ghz)
20gb Western Digital HDD (Primary)
40gb Maxtor HDD (secondary)

Can anyone help :?:

Woudn't even bother worrying about it. A Ti4200 can't even max out 2x.
Even the latest cards don't stress 4X AGP.

CPUID will tell you what you want to know.

 

[Shep©]

On 26 May 2005 23:32:54 -0400 If I have seen farther it is because I
have stood on the shoulder of giants

Hi,

I got a new motherboard with an 8X agp slot and I installed my 8X agp
card, but a LED on the card that suppose to light up when 8X is
enables..doesn't.
I've been though the settings on the BIOS and made sure 8X was enabled
but can't think of anything else that might not be setup.
My current specs are:

Leadtek Winfast TI4200, 128MB, 8X agp video card
ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard
AMD Athlon Xp 1800+ (1.53ghz)
20gb Western Digital HDD (Primary)
40gb Maxtor HDD (secondary)

Can anyone help :?:

ALSO..is there anyway of finding out what the video card is running at
(4x,8x agp) without looking at the BIOS ??

Rivatuner,
http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/
but as per other post AGPx numbers don't mean much in the real world
mainly advertising junk.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

I haven't been able to find documentation for it, but I think that the LED
that you refer to lights when an incompatible 3.3V graphics card is plugged
into the 1.5V slot. Having it stay dark is good.

Everest Home Edition (free from http://www.lavalys.com/) shows the AGP rate
of the system. (The 4200 was originally a 4X card, although later versions
had the 8X interface. I doubt that there was a performance difference
between the 4X and 8X versions.)

Regards,

Bob Knowlden

Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[sypher0101]

With the LED light. I have 3 on the Card:

1. Power
2. 8X Enabled
3. Error

The card is running at 1.5v i believe, but the LED doesn't light up.
I'm just asking cause i don't want anything to be wrong with the
Hardware..whether there's a performance difference or not.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

Sorry. I missed the "on the card" bit.

 

[David Maynard]

On 26 May 2005 23:32:54 -0400 If I have seen farther it is because I
have stood on the shoulder of giants



Rivatuner,
http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/
but as per other post AGPx numbers don't mean much in the real world
mainly advertising junk.

As a design engineer I think the next time management comes in asking for
changes I'll fire back a memo telling them to leave it as is and just
change the box label since that's what you folks figure anyway.

 

[Conor]

As a design engineer I think the next time management comes in asking for
changes I'll fire back a memo telling them to leave it as is and just
change the box label since that's what you folks figure anyway.

DYOR. You'll find that there's nothing out there that remotely stresses
AGP 2x/4x.

 

[David Maynard]

DYOR. You'll find that there's nothing out there that remotely stresses
AGP 2x/4x.

I have done the research and it depends on a lot of things not the least of
which being the application and graphics card used. Not to mention that
doubling AGP bandwidth doesn't mean the graphics speed will double just as
doubling system memory bandwidth doesn't double the system speed. All
things considered AGP 8x would get maybe a 7 to 10% performance increase,
if everything else allows it.

But that wasn't my point anyway. It was the "mainly advertising junk" comment.

 

[Conor]

But that wasn't my point anyway. It was the "mainly advertising junk" comment.

Sorry, my bad.

 

[David Maynard]

Sorry, my bad.

No problem. I was just being a bit frivolous anyway because it begins to
bug me when EVery FREAking THING gets attributed to 'marketing'. So, I was
musing, why the heck bother designing anything? Just change the label.

Save a lot of pain and misery that way

 

[Shep©]

As a design engineer I think the next time management comes in asking for
changes I'll fire back a memo telling them to leave it as is and just
change the box label since that's what you folks figure anyway.

ROTFLMAO

 

[Michael Hawes]

I haven't been able to find documentation for it, but I think that the LED
that you refer to lights when an incompatible 3.3V graphics card is plugged
into the 1.5V slot. Having it stay dark is good.

Everest Home Edition (free from http://www.lavalys.com/) shows the AGP rate
of the system. (The 4200 was originally a 4X card, although later versions
had the 8X interface. I doubt that there was a performance difference
between the 4X and 8X versions.)

Regards,

Bob Knowlden

Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

Have you loaded the motherboard drivers? Sisoft Sandra will benchmark
your system and tell you the AGP speed.