Need help-AGP functions in Asus BIOS

[DL]

The BIOS for my Asus A7V8X-X has various AGP functions, most of which I find
very confusing and the manual does not clarify these, it just tells me the
different options. Can anyone help clarify the following:
"Graphics aperture size", should I set this for 128MB (my ATI 9200 card) or
leave it at 64MB?
And for the following, a big collective HUH!!! ....
AGP Drive strength? options are manual or auto
AGP Drive N Control? options are 0 to F, default is E
AGP Drive P Control? options are 0 to F, default is F
AGP Performance control? enable or disable
AGP Fast write control? enable or disable
All help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!
Regards,
DL

 

[DonC]

The BIOS for my Asus A7V8X-X has various AGP functions, most of which I
find very confusing and the manual does not clarify these, it just tells
me the different options. Can anyone help clarify the following:
"Graphics aperture size", should I set this for 128MB (my ATI 9200 card)
or leave it at 64MB?
And for the following, a big collective HUH!!! ....
AGP Drive strength? options are manual or auto
AGP Drive N Control? options are 0 to F, default is E
AGP Drive P Control? options are 0 to F, default is F
AGP Performance control? enable or disable
AGP Fast write control? enable or disable
All help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!
Regards,
DL

I have the ATI 9200 card (Radeon) in an A7V880. In BIOS the default graphic
aperture size is 128MB. AGP Mode defaults to [AGP 8X]. I've left the other
parameters at their default value of [Disabled]: AGP Read Synchronization,
AGP Fast Write, AGP Master 1 W/S Read, AGP Master 1 W/S Write.

The other functions you list aren't list as such in my BIOS.

FWIW

 

[Blaedmon]

Graphics Aperture=generally 64mb, you want the ATI to handle textures, not
flog it off onto your own memory (slowing shit down unnecessarily)
Drive Strength/Nc Control/P Control=buggered if I know, defaults I guess
Performance Control=enable
Fast Writes=disable for ATI cards
....but the only real settings you need worry about is aperture and
fastwrites, the others can probably be left as default/auto.

 

[peter]

Actuall that Fast writes disable is a fallacy on the 9xxx cards.
There is a slight(very slight) improvement with fast writes enabled.
As for the rest for detailed info look here
http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=1
peter