Fast Writes Enabled on Mobility Radeon7500

[CaligulAZ]

Just a quick question, I have a laptop running the Mobility Radeon7500 64mb DDR video card on the Intel 845MP chipset and while running a few benchmark programs lately I noticed that they were all saying that the Fast Writes option for the AGP port is disabled. I know what the fast writes option is and what it does, I also know that my hardware fully supports it. So I was wondering how I can enable the Fast Wites option? On my desktop PC this option is in the Bios under chipset features, But being the fact that this is a laptop and has an Intel mainboard the system Bios is quite limited and doesn't have this option anywhere in it, but is there perhaps a registry setting, Driver tweak or something that can still be used to enable the fast writes feature?

This is what 3dMark2001SE has to say about it...

http://www.techimo.com/forum/attachment.php?s=0c629acc25664fb55c9470f30cc820ca&postid=279463

Thanks for any help you can give...

 

[scamtrOn]

who makes your laptop?

can you even get into the bios?

<b><font color=blue>micheal jackson is cool

 

[CaligulAZ]

Yes, The bios works the same as any desktop PC bios and has the majority of features common to all intel chipsets from what I can see, But the only AGP options that you can change in the bios is the aperature size and transfer mode(1x/2x/4x). I currently have it running at 4xAGP with a 256MB Aperature which is half my system memory.

The laptop is made by AlienWare and has a P4 2.4GHZ CPU & 512MB of 266MHZ CL2 DDR MEM. Im currently running WinXP Pro with all the current updates and the video drivers provided by AlienWare on their web page. I have tried using lots of different drivers including thw most current version that is on ati.com but the system runns with Fast Writes disabled no matter whice driver I use...

This will tell you a little more about the laptop...
http://www.alienware.com/main/system_pages/area51-m.asp