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Why oh why can't I do 2X?
Hi everyone...
I've built 4 machines over the past few months... 3 with G400 cards. The first BX box runs at 2X AGP. The other 2 with Via mobos are stuck in 1X. Utilities such as AGPSWITCH or POWER STRIP cause immediate or eventual lockups.
The last machine I put together a coupla days ago is a P3600E@897 on a Soyo 6VCA board. When I benched it right after put it together, it was in 2X mode and Wintune gave it a 138MB/sec reading. Somewhere along the line, something occurred that bumped the AGP rate down to 1X. It's Wintune rating has dropped by 15%.
The galling thing is that I swapped out this card from another machine and replaced it with a crappy 8 meg ATI Expert card and *that* card is running merrily at 2X.
CPUID no longer even shows the transfer rate. It's greyed out. Nor does Sandra report the AGP speed.
I reinstalled the G400. Installed the 5.52 drivers and Turbo GL with no luck.
What would cause a card working fine at 2X rate to suddenly revert to 1X? I did reinstall Windows last night following registry corruption while trying to run at 910, but I don't know if that is related at all.
Any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks much...
I've built 4 machines over the past few months... 3 with G400 cards. The first BX box runs at 2X AGP. The other 2 with Via mobos are stuck in 1X. Utilities such as AGPSWITCH or POWER STRIP cause immediate or eventual lockups.
The last machine I put together a coupla days ago is a P3600E@897 on a Soyo 6VCA board. When I benched it right after put it together, it was in 2X mode and Wintune gave it a 138MB/sec reading. Somewhere along the line, something occurred that bumped the AGP rate down to 1X. It's Wintune rating has dropped by 15%.
The galling thing is that I swapped out this card from another machine and replaced it with a crappy 8 meg ATI Expert card and *that* card is running merrily at 2X.
CPUID no longer even shows the transfer rate. It's greyed out. Nor does Sandra report the AGP speed.
I reinstalled the G400. Installed the 5.52 drivers and Turbo GL with no luck.
What would cause a card working fine at 2X rate to suddenly revert to 1X? I did reinstall Windows last night following registry corruption while trying to run at 910, but I don't know if that is related at all.
Any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks much...
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