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  • Question re. AGP cards and memory resources

    Greetings,
    This may be a silly question, but, should there be a conflict between an AGP card's memory resources and the pentium 2 to AGP controller. In win95B device manager I show a conflict between these two devices (using the same memory range). My gut tells me there should never be a conflict, but I'm not sure how the contoller and card interact (i.e. perhaps they need the same memory range to communicate).
    If there should not be a conflict, then does anyone have a solution to resolve the conflict?
    Thanks in advance, and sorry for the newbie question (I'm really not a newbie, just a little ignorant of the inner mysterious workings of AGP devices).

    Cheers,
    Heed.
    Thought thinks itself.

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    This conflict is okay, Heed. Windows 95 was not designed with AGP in mind. MS came up with a patch for this, but it didn't fix this little detail.
    AGP will work just fine on your system, but this "conflict" is just a little piece that the patch doesn't clean up. There really isn't any problem, Win95 just doesn't know that this sharing is okay. I don't think there's anything that could be done to straighten this out, but it isn't going to harm anything.

    -Wombat


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    • #3
      Much appreciated Wombat.

      That was my feeling, but i didn't know for sure. I happen to be one of those few people who get a windows protection error when trying to install the 5.13 drivers, and I thought that this might have something to do with it.

      Oh well, the search for answers continues...

      Cheers,
      Heed.
      Thought thinks itself.

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