Asus A7V8X-X + Geforce4

[sport9155]

I have put a Geforce4 4200 TI (AGP4x) in to this MB, but can not get it to pickup the 4XAGP. It only sees the bus at 2x. I have reinstalled the latest Nvidia drivers, and I have installed the latest Via AGP driver, but no changes. I have uninstalled the Via driver and went with the Microsoft driver and still no change. Any ideas as to what could be holding this back.

 

[ChipDeath]

I assume you've set the BIOS to 4x?

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[sport9155]

Sorry, yes I have changed the bios setting from Auto to 4x and still no go.
When you go into the agp settings on the video card, it shows the the GPU is capable of 4x, the chipset shows up as 2x and the os at 2x thus the optimal setting is going to 2x and can not increase it from there.

 

[Coyote]

Well, it's been a while since I've used the nVidia control panel. Is there an AGP selection in there too?

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[sport9155]

Yes, there is a tab for AGP settings. I have tried there as well, but as I idicated previously. It is limited to 2x as that is all the bus is registering as. I believe the problem is in the video card not interpreting the chip set correctly. But I'm not sure. The MB is capable of 8x

 

[Crashman]

There's a tweak built into the GeForce Tweak Utility. Basically it's an issue with VIA chipsets and certain cards/drivers. It can be hard to nail down, so I would just use the utility, available at <A HREF="http://www.guru3d.com" target="_new">guru3d.com</A>

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[sport9155]

Would you be referring to the NvHardpage2.0, if so I have tried that one and that is how I unlocked the AGP tab in the card's settings window. Or is there another one, or maybe I am not using it correctly, perhaps.

 

[Crashman]

Actually I was refering to a different program named GeForce Tweak Utility.

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[Freyland]

While trying to answer my problem (mentioned in a separate post), I noticed in my vid card manual they said you can have your very problem if you do not have the latest AGP driver for your MB. I would suggest starting there.

Hope that helps.

Jonathan

 

[sport9155]

downlaoded and tried Geforce Tweaker and I have tried the lastes Via AGP drivers.
when I set the AGP setting to 4x in the Tweaker, the card reports PCI 0x. When I leave it to auto it stays at 2x. I did notice an area under the via setting in the Tweaker refference installing the vxd driver in turbo mode. anybody know how you would go about installing the agp dirver in this mannor? Also could this be a result of a votage issue. I am running a 2500 barton core, 512MB ram, 80GB HD, 52x cdrom, 16x burner, on a 300watt power supply. I don't seem to be having any other noticable instabilities though.

 

[endyen]

How is your primary graphics set in bios. I had the same type of problem on a board until I changed the primary graphics from pci to agp.