Video card agp/pci wrong settings?

[FictiousWill]

In the control panel / settings menu of my GeForce4 Ti 4200, under "Adapter Information" it says:

Bus: AGP (PCI mode)

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the PCI slots are the white ones that run below the AGP slot (that my gfx card's in) and PCI are much slower than AGP, which is streamlined for gfx.

Why would my AGP card, in the AGP slot, be running in "PCI mode" and is it bad? If so, how do I change it - bios maybe?

 

[Asus]

Maybe if you have agp fastwrite on it says "PCI mode".
or
Doubt it but maybe because you have your video card preference in bios to PCI?

 

[FictiousWill]

I had agp fastwrite off, so what the hell - I changed it to on.

I did have the card set to pci in the bios, but after changing it, and specifying the arpeture to 4x, it still comes up in the display control panel as:

AGP(PCI mode)

I have all latest drivers and stuff.

Also, dxdiag won't do agp texture acceleration, on my agp card - indicating that it's still not set right.


The important bits of my system:
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I have a gig of pc 2700 ram,
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=Dane-Elec+Elixer+512

amd athlon 2800+
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...e=0&propertycode=&propertycodevalue=4159,4572

asus mobo
http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7V600&langs=09

yet I have 3dmark 2001 scores of low to mid 7000's.
I am sure that this pci/agp thing is the culprit. Please help!

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Originally posted by FictiousWill
Also, dxdiag won't do agp texture acceleration, on my agp card - indicating that it's still not set right.

im having this exact same problem with my 9600 Pro as well..

i have posted over at the rage3d forum and im waiting for a satisfactory reply...

Asus please help? :x

 

[Asus]

Do you have a PCI slot in use that could be sharing resources with the AGP slot?
Check IRQ settings in your manual.

Edit:
Keep PCI slot 2 and 6 unused for the A7V600 board.
If either of those slots are in use, they share IRQs with the AGP.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Asus any advice for me?..

here are my specs.

Athlon XP 2500+
Abit NF7 nForce2
Ati 9600 Pro 128mb
512mb 3200 DDR ram
Enermax 365watt PSU
using CAT's 3.7 drivers

i don't know how to solve my problem.. and DX is a real pain to un-install and re-install too..

Please help... :x

 

[Sashswash]

woah...i just checked my all-in-wonder radon 9700 pro settings... just to see if it says the same thing...and it says "PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0"...odd. i have the omega drivers installed, and am using an intel D845PESV MB...any ideas???
-Sashswash

 

[Asus]

Go under device manager and see if it is running cpu to pci bridge instead of cpu to agp bridge...
Manually install the drivers for the agp bridge from Via or Nvidia (whoever makes your chipset).
Sometimes it can be a problem with XP and how it does not replace the WINXP drivers with the drivers that you get from Nvidia/Via.

Try that.

 

[Sashswash]

my system is running very stable...do you think fixing this problem would cause any increase in performance? i'm not sure if its an actual problem, or just some windows bug...

 

[FictiousWill]

Slot 2 and 6 eh? I'll try it. Thanks - I'll post back if it works/fails etc

 

[FictiousWill]

Nope, I took out everything but my modem (56k), and plopped it around in various pci slots, but the agp card is running in AGP "(PCI mode)" still. There are all kinds of pci options in my bios, which I'm not sure I know how to fiddle with. Maybe I'll check if there's an updated version of my mobo's bios and check back. Until then, any help would be appreciated.

 

[FictiousWill]

Apologies for the triple post. I turned off all IRQ's to N/A in my bios, and I have the latest bios. No matter what - the vid card remains the same. My pci modem is equally unaffected.

 

[Sashswash]

yea...like i said, my performance on my system is fine. I wonder if this is just some ATI problem under the device manager, and if i would even see a performance change if the was different...

 

[FictiousWill]

Our systems our near opposite: ati/nvidia, intel/amd, intel/asus - so I'm stumped. What do we have in common that's causing the problem?

 

[Sashswash]

idk...windows bug???

 

[theGreenBunny]

Originally posted by Asus
Go under device manager and see if it is running cpu to pci bridge instead of cpu to agp bridge...
Manually install the drivers for the agp bridge from Via or Nvidia (whoever makes your chipset).
Sometimes it can be a problem with XP and how it does not replace the WINXP drivers with the drivers that you get from Nvidia/Via.

Try that.

Has either of you actually tried this? Because it should work.

 

[FictiousWill]

Well I'll be darned. Thank you asus, I must have skipped over that post, but I had to run several installs to get it to go, but now it's all savvy. Thanks most muchly!

 

[Sashswash]

i have an intel based MB....it's chipset is the Intel 845PE Chipset. Would i get the AGP drivers from their web page??

 

[FictiousWill]

If you don't have a mobo disc ( I didn't) then the web is your best bet.

try here:
http://www.intel.com/design/software/drivers/platform/inf.htm

 

[Revisedsoul]

correct me if im wrong, but isnt agp just pci with a dirrect connection to the memory? because i know agp is part of the pci bus.

 

[FictiousWill]

yeah - 'twas a driver problem.