AGP 4X bus on a 8X board

[Lunaray]

I have an Albatron (nvidia geforce 4 ti4680 Turbo) video card and an Asus
P4S8X motherboard! They both support AGP 8X graphics but when I go to
display settings/advanced and click on the nvidia tab, it shows the 'bus' as
being '4X', not '8X'? According to the Asus manual, the board will
automatically recognize an 8X card. I looked in the BIOS to see if there
was any place to enable, or change the video-bus settings, but I didn't find
anything.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Ray

 

[Strontium]

Check your CMOS settings.

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[Lunaray]

Thanks, but how do I do that?

 

[Dogbert]

Have you installed the 8x driver for the motherboard? A friend has a
similar Asus board, and you need to install the motherboard drivers from the
CD before you can use the AGP 8x.

 

[Lunaray]

Thanks Larc, I found it (I think). In my BIOS settings there was a place
for 'chip configuration' but it was already set at 8X so I still don't know
the settings for the graphics card say 4X bus. I did find that the video
RAM was set to 64 meg though, so I changed it to 128 meg.

 

[Lunaray]

Thanks I'll have to check that, my local computer shop actually did the
initial set up! However, I'm assuming that they did, since 8X shows up in
the BIOS.