Compatibility Survey

[Maggi]

Hi Y'all,

I'd need some feedback from all you dual CPU geeks out there, that use AGP cards.

In my case, we have 5 Tyan Thunder K8W dual Opteron boards here inhouse and all seem to have problems in running Parhelia AGP cards in "AGP Texture Acceleration" mode.

Using DXDiag, I found out the following:

The olden AGP4x Parhelias show "AGP Texture Acceleration: Enabled" on VGA1 but "AGP Texture Acceleration: Not Available" on VGA2

The newer AGP8x Parhelias show "AGP Texture Acceleration: Not Available" on VGA1 and VGA2

All ATI and NVidia I tested here in house show "AGP Texture Acceleration: Enabled" on VGA1 and VGA2.

...

Now, could all of you that run a dual CPU system with an AGP card (preferably set up in independant dualhead mode) do me a favor and run DxDiag (run > dxdiag), have a look at both VGA tabs and simply post the state of "AGP Texture Acceleration:" ?

TIA,
Maggi

[VJ]

I'll check this weekend (and edit this mail with the result).
Running a dual Xeon 2.4/533, SuperMicro X5DA8 (7505 chipset), Matrox Parhelia 512 4x.


Jörg

[Maggi]

Thanx Jörg !

[J1NG]

Got a 9600 Pro I can throw into the old K8W Thunder (Dual 240's) system if you want. Can even try with an older MPX (Dual Athlon). But it'll have to be tommorow at the very earliest.

J1NG

[Maggi]

Thanx J1NG !

would be great to get more configs and results, but there's absolutely no need to rush ...

[Taz]

My results

Gigabyte GA-7A8DW with 2 x AMD Opteron 244's, Matrox P650 AGP in independant mode :-

AGP Texture Acceleration: Enabled on VGA1
AGP Texture Acceleration: Not Available on VGA2

[Maggi]

Thanx a lot, Taz !

What chipset is on that Gigabyte board ?

[Kurt]

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Server/Products/Products_ServerBoard_GA-7A8DW.htm

AMD chipset: 8111 + 8131 + 8151

[Maggi]

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Server/Produ...d_GA-7A8DW.htm

AMD chipset: 8111 + 8131 + 8151

Thanx, Kurt !

[Kurt]

np.

the "A" after the "7" is the brand of the chipset (AMD).

[Taz]

Just looked at my other Dualie, which is an old MSI K7D Master with a couple of modified Durons and a Matrox G450, and that gives the opposite. It's not available on VGA1 but showing as enabled on VGA2

[Wombat]

Didn't the G450 have screwy numbering? I thought I remembered that if you had one monitor, it had to be plugged into VGA 2.

[Maggi]

oh the fun ...

that MSI K7D Master also uses AMD chipsets (76x)

keep 'em coming

[VJ]

On my dual Xeon (Prestonia, 2.4 GHz, FSB 533), SuperMicro X5DA8 (Intel 7505 chipset), with my Matrox Parhelia 512 (4x) I get:
AGP Texture Acceleration: "Enabled" on VGA1, but "Not Available" on VGA2

I'm using the latest vid drivers, in independant mode.


Jorg

[Maggi]

Didn't the G450 have screwy numbering? I thought I remembered that if you had one monitor, it had to be plugged into VGA 2.

wasn't that rather the G550 with its two differing outputs (VGA & DVI) ?

On my dual Xeon (Prestonia, 2.4 GHz, FSB 533), SuperMicro X5DA8 (Intel 7505 chipset), with my Matrox Parhelia 512 (4x) I get:
AGP Texture Acceleration: "Enabled" on VGA1, but "Not Available" on VGA2

I'm using the latest vid drivers, in independant mode.


Jorg

Thanx Jörg !

Looks like Matrox has some AGP issues that are not only showing up on AMD chipsets.