Video card- Geforce FX 5600 AGP(PCI) mode

S

Steve

I was looking around the Display Properties and i notice
that Under
the Geforce FX 5600 Tab it says:

Adapter information:
Bus: AGP(PCI mode)
Memory: 256MB.

I know my card is AGP. Why does it say PCI mode? I was
told to update my
BIOS drivers, which i did, and then i
uninstalled my Geforce Video drivers and reinstalled the
newest verion,
and with no luck it still says the same thing.
In my bios I made sure the following settings were:

Graphics Aperture Size: 256MB
AGP Capability: 4X mode.
Video memory cache mode: USWC

and PRIMARY VGA BIOS: AGP VGA card.

I know it should say AGP 8X or AGP 4X. Know of any
soultion? thanks!

BRAND OF COMPUTER : homemade
BRAND OF MOTHERBOARD : Asus P4PE
MOTHERBOARD CHIPSET : Intel I845PE/ICH4/IT8708
SYSTEM PROCESSOR TYPE & SPEED : Intel Pentium 4 2.66
SYSTEM RAM : 1024MB
SYSTEM BIOS VERSION : ASUS P4P4 ACPI BIOS Revision 1005
DRIVER VERSION 52:16
OPERATING SYSTEM : MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL
(administrator

account)


thank you very much
 
J

John Chin [MSFT]

I can only guess that Nvidia drivers is in PCI mode to increase stability.

I can you please go to your Start Menu and Run dxdiag, under the Display
tab, What does it say about "AGP Texture Acceleration"? Is it enabled or Not
Available?

Thanks

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J

John Chin [MSFT]

Can you check your device manger and make sure AGP filter is install for
your Asus P4PE, To do this go to Start Menu, Run devmgmt.msc, go to System
devices, Is there a AGP controller item listed there? If there is, Check in
the Display Applet and see if there are any Nvidia Control panel tabs in the
display applet in the Advance button. There maybe some AGP control in the
Nvidia's own software. If there isn't you need to call Nvidia. But it up to
you, do you want fast D3D in games and suffer instability. Or can you live
with PCI mode in your games?

Thanks

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S

Steve

thank you! i fixed it, i found my Asus motherboard CD
and i installed "Intel Chipset Inf Update Program". It
now says AGP 4X. Does that program sound familliar ( i.e.
is it important?! lol) I am going to college for computer
science and I put this computer together from scratch so
i could learn how to do it. Guess i never installed that
program... again, does that sound like a logical
solution? thanks again!
 
Y

Yves Leclerc

AGP cards work in PCI emulation mode, until we install the correct chipset
drivers, which include drivers to tell the Windows system how to access the
AGP sloy correctly.

He fixed this in the other branch of this thread.

Y.
 

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