Radeon 9600xt - Control Center tells me AGP is off

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I just bought a Asus K8N-E board, installed XP and installed a new Radeon
9600xt. Everything seems to work ok but when I looked into the ATI Catalyst
Control Center under SmartGart, it tells me under 'set AGP' that it is in
the off position. All attempts to set it to 4 or 8 after a reboot - it goes
back to 'OFF'.

Any solution for this? I can not find a place to set the AGP speed on the
motherboard. Is there any third part program I can run to check if it is
really off? or just a faulty report by the control center?

Thanks for the assistance.

Mike

 

[Aardvark J. Bandersnatch, MP, LP, BLT, ETC.]

I just bought a Asus K8N-E board, installed XP and installed a new Radeon
9600xt. Everything seems to work ok but when I looked into the ATI
Catalyst
Control Center under SmartGart, it tells me under 'set AGP' that it is in
the off position. All attempts to set it to 4 or 8 after a reboot - it
goes
back to 'OFF'.

Any solution for this? I can not find a place to set the AGP speed on the
motherboard. Is there any third part program I can run to check if it is
really off? or just a faulty report by the control center?

Have you checked your BIOS settings?

 

[News]

I just bought a Asus K8N-E board, installed XP and installed a new Radeon
9600xt. Everything seems to work ok but when I looked into the ATI
Catalyst
Control Center under SmartGart, it tells me under 'set AGP' that it is in
the off position. All attempts to set it to 4 or 8 after a reboot - it
goes
back to 'OFF'.

Any solution for this? I can not find a place to set the AGP speed on the
motherboard. Is there any third part program I can run to check if it is
really off? or just a faulty report by the control center?

Have you checked your BIOS settings?

Yes, I see no option to set x4 or x8. Only an option to use AGP or not and
it is set to use AGP.

 

[borolad]

I just bought a Asus K8N-E board, installed XP and installed a new Radeon
9600xt. Everything seems to work ok but when I looked into the ATI
Catalyst
Control Center under SmartGart, it tells me under 'set AGP' that it is in
the off position. All attempts to set it to 4 or 8 after a reboot - it
goes
back to 'OFF'.

Any solution for this? I can not find a place to set the AGP speed on the
motherboard. Is there any third part program I can run to check if it is
really off? or just a faulty report by the control center?

Yes, I see no option to set x4 or x8. Only an option to use AGP or not and
it is set to use AGP.

Assuming your BIOSversion is recent.

AGP is set by GART, GART is one component of the MOBO [ not video ]
drivers, re-install your MOBO drivers, or at least the GART driver.

..1. Look in your control [ computer not ATi ] control panel, / system
any yellow asterisk - especially the Host to PCI Bridge?

..2. Check you BIOS [ video ] settings against the advice given by
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ click on ATi / QuickMenu / Mother Board
BIOS Optimizations.

..3. GoTo ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/nForce/5.10/ and get
new[er] drivers ( 09/01/2004 03:23PM 28,192,681) for WinXP.

..4. If you don't want to re-install the whole set, just the GART use
WinRAR to extract the GART folder to your desktop, then ;

- do .1. above, right click on the PCI bridge, and choose update, send
- it to the folder on your desktop and update that way.

..5 If everything then works to your satisfaction, enhance your
experience by going to .2. above and install a proper set of video
drivers. Radeon Omega Drivers 2.5.97a (Catalyst 4.12] released 28th of
Dec last year.

BoroLad

N.B. I've not used or even seen an ASUS board for 10 years, so someone
else check my post please!