Survey of your G400 AGP Mode

[rickn]

G400 DH 32MB 160/200
ASUS P2B-F, bios 1010
AGP 2x, full bus mastering, no hacks, IRQ 11(no sharing)

[P-Ditty]

AOpen AX6BC
Celery 450 @ 2.0V
G400 SH 32MB
AGP 1X -- cannot get 2X for the life of me...

I have read that the G400 should have its own IRQ, and that it should be an IRQ higher than 9. Mine is on IRQ 5, not shared w/ anything, so is this why I can't get 2X out of my system? The new drivers (5.30) are stable in Win98 with the 2X reg. hack, but my games lockup after about a minute...Any ideas?

Does forcing the G400 IRQ to 9 or higher *really* make a difference?

Any comments are appreciated, thank you.

[cjolley]

2X from the get-go.


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ABit BH6 w/ Celery 333@500, 128mb gh@cas2, 10gb IBM@7200, SB Live Value@44kh, noname CDRom@40x, Mitsumi CDRW@2x2x8, Zoom@56k, Princeton EO75@1024x768x32x85hz, USB mouse,Matrox G400 MAX!!!!

[DuRaNgO]

P-ditty, what is your fsb running at?
jim

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PIII-500mhz @ 620!
Abit BE6 mobo
128mb pc-100
Mill G400(YAHOO!!!) 32mb @ 120%)
PD 5.30
Maxtor 13.2 gb Uata66 hdd
SB Live!
Winblows 98se
DX7
THREE BIG FANS, six little ones and a case that sounds like a turbine engine...doh!

[Mark F]

P-Ditty,
Mines on IRQ 7 with no problems in a AX6BC (rev 1.3). After a driver upgrade my G200 wouldn't do 2X. It did with reg hack but was not useable. This may sound silly but I got it back to stable 2X without reg hack, by going into device manager, removeing the card, rebooting, and letting Win )re)find the card. Worked fine there after, again! Can't hurt to try it. You may also want to try the reseating of the card, and boot up without screwing the card down, it's worked for some.

Good Luck,
Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

[P-Ditty]

My FSB is at 100mhz w/ a 2/3AGP divider, so 66mhz for the AGP bus. I've tried clocking my Celery back down to 300mhz (and 66mhz AGP bus) to no avail...

Any ideas?

[P-Ditty]

Hey Mark,

I went into device manager, removed the card, rebooted, and after Win98 was going, my G400 was running at 2X and I'm now able to play 1/2Life without lockups. I wonder if it'll last...

Thanks a million for the tip! This forum is better than tech support!

Thanks again all...

[Jorden]

Matrox G400 DH 32Mb, Asus P2B (1010), 256Mb RAM, AGP 2x without forcing.

Jorden.

[Shandra]

Hope this message dosn't come up twice
(as my first post seem to being placed in NIL)

AGP 1x, system see sig.

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CU,
SHAnDRA
dow gon

System: Celeron500, AsusP2B-F (1010 Bios), 192MB
16,8 GB IBM HD, 10,2 GB Maxtor HD, Samsung 604F DVD
SBLive (LiveWare2.1), G400 32MB SH (5.20 certified)
Realtek SNE2000, Diamond SupraExpress 56e (V90 Bios)
Logitech MouseMan+ (Driver 8.4), Microsoft Sidewinder Prec.Pro

[Grimace]

AGP 2X default.

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Asus P2B-DS, 2 x Pentium III 450 @ 504, 128MB CAS 2 SDRAM, Matrox G400 MAX,
Sony GDM-17SE2T, Sound Blaster Live, NetGear FA310TX 10/100 NIC,
IBM 9ZLX 9GB 10,000 RPM LVD Drive, BusLogic 958 Ultra Fast/Wide SCSI Controller,
Pioneer DVD-113 6X DVD-ROM, Toshiba 6102B 32x CDROM, Yamaha 4260t CD Writer,
Linux (Primary OS), Win98, and Win2K

[ALBPM]

G400 MAX
ABIT BE6
2X always!!!
see sig

Paul

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P3-616(112x5.5), ABIT BE6, 256MB PC100, MILL G400 MAX-32MB on BNC, Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24 on D-sub, IBM Deskstar 18GB ATA/66, 21"Trinitron, SCSI CDR/RW, SCSI ZIP,SB Live!Value,USR Voice Faxmodem Pro(USB Ext),Epson 1520 printer,Umax1200S scanner,WN98 and a (Very Messy Desk) ;-P

[Bilbo]

G400 32MB DH
AGP 2X (always!)
PIII450 o/c 504MHz
64MB RAM
QDI BrillianX 1 Motherboard
AWE64 Gold
etc. etc.

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Life's a Bitch.....

[Marmita]

G400 DH 32MB (o/c to 160/200) at AGP x2
Asus P2B o/c to 115Mhz FSB with 1010 bios
Toshiba 128mb cas2 memory
P3-500 @ 575 with toshiba L2 cache
MX300 with 2040 vertex2 drivers
Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI controller
Seagate Cheetah 10000rpm U2W hd
Plextor UltraPlex x32 SCSI cd-rom
S&F x8/x20 SCSI burner
Creative x2/x24 DVD
(and some other non important stuff)

at the beginning I had to force AGP x1 but then I descovered the problem. My Altec Lansing ADA-305 (USB speakers) software conflicted with my G400, removing the speakers software enabled me to run at x2.

[Plmr]

abit BE6 p3 450@565 g400 dh 32 ,always 2x through all my boards bh6 bx6-2 be6 g200 and g400 no muss no fuss..
Matt

[Delany]

G400 Max
Gigabyte GA-686BX motherboard
2x AGP (without forcing)
128MB PC100 RAM