Problems Runnig 9600XT at 8xAGP

[Patrick Tite]

Whenever I tr to run my ATI Radeon 9600XT at 8x AGP I get VPU recover
errors. Any advice?

System specs are as follows:
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1

Code Name Barton
Specification AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3200+
Family / Model / Stepping 6 A 0
Extended Family / Model 7 A
Core Stepping
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended
3DNow!, SSE
CPU Clock Speed 2310.2 MHz
Clock multiplier x 11.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 210.0 MHz
Bus Speed 420.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line
size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes
line size
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2310.2 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 64 bits



Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard model A7V600, REV 1.xx
BIOS vendor Award Software, Inc.
BIOS revision ASUS A7V600 ACPI BIOS Revision 1005
BIOS release date 08/01/2003
Chipset VIA KT600 rev. 80
Southbridge VIA VT8237 rev. 0
Sensor chip FFFF

AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.5
AGP Data Transfert Rate 4x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, not enabled
AGP Aperture Size 64 MBytes



Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 143.3 MHz
FSBRAM FSB - 66 MHz
DRAM Interleave 4-way
CAS# Latency 2.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 6 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 512 MBytes


If i set AGP at 8x in BIOS and similarly ATI control panel it crashes

 

[Mavra Chang]

If you're not going to overclock it (and even if you are) you might want to
turn VPU Recovery off. It causes a lot of different problems and yours might
be one. Also it doesn't hurt to turn off fastwrite either.

mc

 

[@ndrew]

If you're not going to overclock it (and even if you are) you might
want to turn VPU Recovery off. It causes a lot of different problems
and yours might be one. Also it doesn't hurt to turn off fastwrite
either.

mc

Further to this yes turn off the VPU recover but leave fast writes on
for the 9600 ... it is the only card where you should leave them on atm.

regards

@ndrew

 

[Asestar]

Further to this yes turn off the VPU recover but leave fast writes on

for the 9600 ... it is the only card where you should leave them on atm.

regards

@ndrew

Can you pls explain why?

 

[dino]

no..but apparently with the 9600XT it will cause more grief if disabled then
enabled. Mine is turned on, but have absolutely no grief with my XT. I have
VPU recover disabled..it has a known "bug"

 

[Wayne Gregory]

no..but apparently with the 9600XT it will cause more grief if disabled then
enabled. Mine is turned on, but have absolutely no grief with my XT. I have
VPU recover disabled..it has a known "bug"

I had the same problem running on a very similar spec machine. I tried
alsorts but in the end the only way I could stabalise my machine was
to set the Bios to Auto detect the AGP speed and set the software to
4x.

This has worked perfectly since