Any way to force AGP 4x?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-12-11 05:20am

I have an AGP 8x motherboard with a videocard that seems to work better at AGP 4x, but I can't find any way to change this. It's an Asus P4P800. Anyone got an ideas?

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2005-12-11 05:23am

The Omega Drivers have an app called SmartGart, which lets you set AGP speed. I cant vouch for the results tho, but Im using Omega myself and am happy with it.

linkie

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-12-11 09:16am

Tolya wrote:The Omega Drivers have an app called SmartGart, which lets you set AGP speed. I cant vouch for the results tho, but Im using Omega myself and am happy with it.

linkie

SmartGart is part of the stock ATi drivers.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-12-11 11:23am

There *should* be a BIOS option that lets you set the AGP speed, I know I've seen it somewhere on my Socket A Gigabyte (though the options for that are 2 or 4x).

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-12-11 03:41pm

Ah, another poor sod like me with the P4P800 and all of its quirks. I particularly like how you can only get USB hot-swapping working by disabling USB 2.0.

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2005-12-11 05:17pm

Ace Pace wrote:
Tolya wrote:The Omega Drivers have an app called SmartGart, which lets you set AGP speed. I cant vouch for the results tho, but Im using Omega myself and am happy with it.

linkie
SmartGart is part of the stock ATi drivers.

Really? Didn't know that. And does it work? Im curious myself, can you set a lower agp setting and see the actual results?

I had some problems with SmartGart a few months back on a Radeon 9500, agp didnt work at all. Its now ok with 9800 and an Asus A7N8X

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-12-11 05:33pm

I'm using an NVidia graphics card on this machine, so no ATI driver solutions for me. I saw an option for AGP 8x and 4x on my NVidia drivers but it was grayed out.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-12-11 05:34pm

weemadando wrote:Ah, another poor sod like me with the P4P800 and all of its quirks. I particularly like how you can only get USB hot-swapping working by disabling USB 2.0.

Ah yes, someone who understands.

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2005-12-11 05:57pm

I think Rivatuner has an option to select the AGP command rate. Haven't used it in a while though; I could be wrong.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2005-12-11 06:01pm

Have you tried flashing to the latest BIOS?

Ah, another poor sod like me with the P4P800 and all of its quirks. I particularly like how you can only get USB hot-swapping working by disabling USB 2.0.

A friend of mine swears by Intel chipset mobos and constantly rubs it in that I had to switch from an nF3 to a VIA K8T800 based board to get USB 2 working properly.
I'll have to make sure he reads this.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-12-12 12:14am

Tolya wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:
Tolya wrote:The Omega Drivers have an app called SmartGart, which lets you set AGP speed. I cant vouch for the results tho, but Im using Omega myself and am happy with it.

linkie
SmartGart is part of the stock ATi drivers.
Really? Didn't know that. And does it work? Im curious myself, can you set a lower agp setting and see the actual results?

I had some problems with SmartGart a few months back on a Radeon 9500, agp didnt work at all. Its now ok with 9800 and an Asus A7N8X

I don't play around with AGP settings, my PC has enough issues as is.

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2005-12-12 03:44pm

Replacing RAM to genuine Kingston ended ALL my hardware problems