Problem with AGP Thread

My GFX Card is connected to the motherboard through the AGPx4 slot, but it's detected as PCI in the windows control panel. Anybody knows how to change that? - im sure that the card is connected through AGP.

I could gain a nice speed boost if i would get this to work

i guess your mobo driversa are not installed and windows runs the card in PCI Compatibility Mode. Try installing those AGP drivers and see if it helps. It can though kill your windows (happened more than not to me) so backup first

Heh, actually i think that you're right

I'll try to do that, thanks for the fast reply

edit: Nah, doesn't want to work. I've installed the .INF files for the AGP/USB/everything recognition and it still appears like it would be connected through the PCI slot

Edited by (in order): bart2o, bart2o

**KA-bump**

just a note: just installing the driver wont work, it wont overrite the driver that's currently in use. You have to first uninstall the previous driver, and then install the new driver.

(I don't know if this will help though, I just remember installing the same damn driver on my machine 20 times, and only when I deleted my original driver did the new driver take effect)

just a note: just installing the driver wont work, it wont overrite the driver that's currently in use. You have to first uninstall the previous driver, and then install the new driver.

(I don't know if this will help though, I just remember installing the same damn driver on my machine 20 times, and only when I deleted my original driver did the new driver take effect)

The first problem is - even the intel support page hasn't got any drivers, only some INF files and some other miscelaneous shite. So i basically don't know what to do right now...

you have not by misluck shadowed your AGP card with a PCI card? (meaning, placed a PCI card exactly next to your AGP slot). they are usually irq shared and some AGP cards heavily hick-up on that one.

? You mean that my card could be PCI only? Or that i've got a second videocard in a PCI slot plugged in right next to my primary AGP card?

nope. just any PCI card plugged next to the AGP slot. they usually share an IRQ (because back when AGP came you had for the switch time a place for APG/PCI card so sharing it didn't waste an IRQ for nothing).

unfortunatly this doesn't mix well often. example is me. i've had back then a Creative 3DBlaster AGP card and a Creative SoundBlaster card. both Creative, one plugged in AGP, the other enxt to it in PCI. they hated each other and I got only PCI compatibility mode for my graphic card.

so if you have that PCI slot occupied move it to another slot and try again.

ah... sorry i've misunderstood your post a bit

i'll check it out, thanks again for taking the time to help me

nah - the only thing connected through PCI is my soundcard, and its IRQ is different...

maybe the graphic card drivers then. best is to rip down the old graphic drivers and the agp drivers (mobo drivers), reboot (yep, otherwise they might be still in place), fire up secure mode (as otherwise auto installs might kick in), then mobo, reboot, secure, graphic board, reboot, cross-fingers...

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Anyway, again thanks for trying to help me I guess that i am not going to get any more power from my gf3

well... i've got a good answer then:

get linux and the nvidia drivers... whoopie! it's even faster than on windows.

anyways. if it is PCI then definitly some drivers hate each other or two slot cards hate each other. From distance I can't say anymore what might be wrong (i would have to get that machine in front of me), soz.

EDIT: my personal quess is still that you've got a driver-zombie around. and they suk.

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i've tried knoppix already, it isn't that bad - actually its awesome but it lacks compatibility with windows programs. I know about wine but its slow as hell and even a polish communicator goes like shit...

knoppix is nice, but not build for speed but for running on nearly all possible out of the box.

winehq is a thing for itself. if you use normal apps or OpenGl based games it runs rather well. DX stuff still has troubles but who wonders if it is closed source?

communicator? what kind of communicator you look for?

Gadu-gadu, or GG. (krycha is going to laugh on that one )

I'll install knoppix, just im too lazy to add a partition and hmm... im too lazy to install it anyway lol

GG... check out GAIM. eats all (like trilian) but is OS and works very well... damn... reminds me that i should update once more GAIM... lollol

You could use a Jabber client instead of GG, let's say Pandion - it's very Linux compatible (or maybe it's designed especially for Linux, I can't remember) and hell better than Gadu-Gadu (it's like Trillan or GAIM too, so you can talk to MSN/AIM/ICQ/GG mates at the same time).

Try Debian 3 and see if that helps out Use Trillian for your IM and Gimp for your graphic needs. (Building a Debian box now at friends house a Old p 133 wi 48 Megs of ram and a 4 Gig Hdd and 32 Meg pci card VD 3 Banshee ) Gonna see if that could run as a server for web use.

Leonardo-DiVinci wrote: Use Trillian for your IM

That's for windows, and it's also one of the worst IM's out there. Even I left Trillian when I first was using it

Edited by (in order): leilei, leilei, leilei