Gah, just did another upgrade on my PC (new motherboard, CPU and RAM) and i had everything going and I was happy, until I realised just how crappy it was running (mainly in games)

Basically, using my super-know how, I have found that AGP speed has been set to 0x and fast write is now stuck on, on or off and I cant change it.

I have had this problem before (a long time ago) and it just needed the newest chipset drivers installed, but I have done that and still, no matter what I do, I cant get the AGP speed up :(

I have a Gigabyte K8U-939 (not the best but it was the only one there)
If worse comes to worst, I will just get another motherboard, a better one too, but I am hoping that there is a way to fix the problem, and hopefully, someone out there knows how to do it ;)

Anyways, I have tried many different drivers (Newest catalyst, older catalyst, Omega and so on) and I have used the "remove SMARTGART utility) which did nothing.

From what I have read, there are a few problems like this surounding the AMD64 systems, but usually enabling/disabling fast write stops it...except in my case :(


Anyways, thanks for the help (if I get any :D )

Aren't you the one who typically answers MY tech questions??? :D

More importantly, what's a new system doing with AGP?

Naw, nothing wrong with that. Anyway, in my experience, computers like to grey things out when they don't think they can accomplish said task...I know mine occaisionally likes to deny that my monitor is capable of 1280 by 1024 resolution...I got around that by doing a system restore...

Your problem, though, sounds like a bad hardware-detection issue...which makes me think of drivers. I'm sure you've tried a lot of them, when you say you've tried "many different drivers," but there may still be something else. I'll look around a bit on their website and post again if I see anything.

Yeah, never mind guys, I fixed the problem (turned out to be a driver issue) for some reason, Windows wouldn't find the better driver for the AGP slot (thought it was a standard PCI slot) untill I forced it to [img]tongue.gif[/img]

First of all, Video cards are yet to reach the AGP speed cap (wont be long though) and secondly, I paid about $500 for a video card a few months back, and I dont feel like buying another yet.....

Well, it wont be long, because those lovely X1800XT's have just hit Australian shores, I'm getting one :D

[ 12-04-2005, 02:12 AM: Message edited by: Hivetyrant ]

<font color=8fbc8f>Hold Up! Back the thread up here!
Arn't you the anti small guy everything? Don't you favor MS, Intel, Nvidia, and the like? So, why would you be asking about antiquated AGP, on and AMD M/B, with an ATI video card, supported by M$? Sheez, what has this forum come to?
Now, just the other day you were correcting me about how advanced the gforce cards were and they were such the rave! Now, as we see, you do in fact run AMD with old equipment, and the Ati series. [img]graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img]

Under M$ one must have a .net configuration in order to accept the new catalyst driver and control panel. With that said, make sure that is up to date, then you can upgrade to the latest Ati catalyst group and be done with theis issue.</font>

Hive, I'd like to know how you "forced" Windows to recognize the right driver. And you are right, those X1800XTs seem oh so fine.

well you can always tell windows which driver to use if it can't find the best one automatically.

MS yes, Intel NO, Nvidia NO, always been an ATI man, and been a strong AMd supporter since I got an AMD chip back at the start of the year.

Gah, I wouldnt say my Hardware is top of the line, but believe me, a Radeon x800 PRO, AMD64 4000+ X2 and 2 gig of RAM with countless other cool things does the job ;)