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Forcing AGP x1 ?
A few months ago I bought myself a G400 32MB Dualhead. I installed it in my k6-2 450 with an epox mb with via chipset. Using the 5.30 drivers everything worked wonderful for a few weeks, then the 5.40 drivers was released. I installed them and at the same time I overclocked my G400 a little. Then I tried Unreal tournament that had allways worked perfectly before, but after a few seconds into the intro, the computer locket up. I tried again without overclocking, it locked up again. Every 3d-game I play hung within seconds, so I re-installed the 5.30 drivers again, and then UT worked again but none of the other games.
Then I got some extra money and ordered myself an ABIT BP6 + 2 x Celeron 366, while I waited for the new stuff I tried the G400 at work on some crappy Chaintech mb with a celeron 400@500, that one locked up to on every 3d-game I tried. After reading some posts in this forum I tried forcing AGP x1... and it worked! Even with the 5.41 drivers.
When I got my new mb and celerons I installed Windows 2000 and the 5.00 beta-drivers, launched UT... the computer locks up. So now my first question is: does anybody know how do I force AGP x1 on an ABIT BP6, on the Chaintech mb i could do this in some BIOS setting (disable AGP2x - true), the win9x registry hacks does not work, i've tried powerstrip, the computer locks up when i try to run pstrip /agp:1x.
My second question is: What the hell is wrong with the G400 cards, i've never heard so many have so much problems with a gfx-card before, i'm thinking i maybe should buy myself a geforce or something that work.
Sorry for my bad english!
Then I got some extra money and ordered myself an ABIT BP6 + 2 x Celeron 366, while I waited for the new stuff I tried the G400 at work on some crappy Chaintech mb with a celeron 400@500, that one locked up to on every 3d-game I tried. After reading some posts in this forum I tried forcing AGP x1... and it worked! Even with the 5.41 drivers.
When I got my new mb and celerons I installed Windows 2000 and the 5.00 beta-drivers, launched UT... the computer locks up. So now my first question is: does anybody know how do I force AGP x1 on an ABIT BP6, on the Chaintech mb i could do this in some BIOS setting (disable AGP2x - true), the win9x registry hacks does not work, i've tried powerstrip, the computer locks up when i try to run pstrip /agp:1x.
My second question is: What the hell is wrong with the G400 cards, i've never heard so many have so much problems with a gfx-card before, i'm thinking i maybe should buy myself a geforce or something that work.
Sorry for my bad english!
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