Athlon/Duron AGP video error in Win2K fixed

[phsstpok]

Alert!! I found this on www.cluboverclockers.com who credits www.amdzone.com. Here is the description of the problem from the AMD site.

Microsoft Windows®2000 Patch for AGP Applications on AMD Athlon™ and AMD Duron™ Processors

Description of Issue

An issue has been identified that could result in the corruption of video data shared between AGP graphics adapters and AMD Athlon™ or AMD Duron™ processors when running Microsoft Windows®2000. This issue is independent of system chipset and has been observed when running Ziff-Davis 3D Winbench™2000 and Mad Onion 3DMark™ 2000 in benchmarking mode.



Solution

AMD and Microsoft have worked together to identify a patch that involves adding a key to the registry. To add the key run the registry key installation file below or add the registry key as detailed in Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q270715. AMD recommends that AMD Athlon and AMD Duron users with AGP graphics adapters running Windows 2000 install this patch.

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Here is a link to get the patch.

http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon-duron/amd_win2k_patch.html

 

[Bubba]

I posted this in the Windows 2000 section of this forum about 5 days ago.

 

[phsstpok]

Dude, I saw it when I posted on that forum. I gave you credit.

I use Windows 98SE and don't normally read the Windows 2000 forum but I did think it was worth posting again.

 

[Guest]

I found this on the abit faq and just finished testing it out. It appears to work!