AGP card seen as PCI

[wooducoodu]

I have an evga nvidia 5600xt AGP8x card in an albatron px875p board with the
latest bios, chipset and video drivers. I dual boot between win98 and win2k.
in win2k the card is identified correctly but in win98 it's being detected
as a PCI card instead of AGP and ever tool I check (sandra, aida32, cpuz,
wcpuid, etc) says AGP is disabled. Any ideas?

 

[Dave C.]

I have an evga nvidia 5600xt AGP8x card in an albatron px875p board with the
latest bios, chipset and video drivers. I dual boot between win98 and win2k.
in win2k the card is identified correctly but in win98 it's being detected
as a PCI card instead of AGP and ever tool I check (sandra, aida32, cpuz,
wcpuid, etc) says AGP is disabled. Any ideas?

Your win98 motherboard chipset AGP drivers are screwed up. Contact albatron
about a fix for this, but don't hold your breath. -Dave

 

[hawk]

I have a similar problem with an ATI Radeon 9000 card. In WinXP
everything works perfectly. In Win98, none of the acceleration
features or 3D will work. During installation I get an error message
about a failed AGP bus. I have exchanged about 25 E-mails with ATI
tech support and have given up on ever getting this card to work
properly in Win98. ATI says my motherboard chipset (440BX) doesn't
require any AGP drivers other than what Win98 provides, and they have
suggested reinstalling Win98, reinstalling DirectX 9.0b and
reinstalling an older ATI driver. All of which I have done more than
once with no better results. And I found Intel inf files for the 440BX
chip set and reinstalled them a couple of times and verified the
installation per Intel instructions.

I still think the problem is with the ATI Win98 drivers, since
everything works perfectly with WinXP.

Good luck, hawk

 

[wooducoodu]

i was using the more recent chipset drives from intel but decided to try the
ones from albatron and that solved the problem. guess i'll just never be
able to update those drivers.

 

[Dave C.]

i was using the more recent chipset drives from intel but decided to try the
ones from albatron and that solved the problem. guess i'll just never be
able to update those drivers.

This is exactly why the generic drivers should be a last resort. Always get
the drivers from whoever manufactured the board. If that doesn't work, then
try a driver for the chipset. -Dave