AGP troubles

[blueviper42]

thank you very much sepht, and yes that is the mobo that I have.

[Sepht]

Yeh, so install all those, and youll be set.

[blueviper42]

After I DL them, do I have to activate them or anything? Like install them, or do I just download and restart and start playing UT2003?

[blueviper42]

N/M I figured out to install them.

Basically,

For any computer with an AMD processor you must ensure that the first set of drivers you install on a system is your motherboard chipset drivers...

In most cases, probably 99.9% of the time, you can install the reference drivers from the chipset, not motherboard, manufacturer.

If your still having trouble initiating AGP/Fast Writes/Sideband-Addressing... blah!...blah!...blah!, then i recommend you visit this page which allows you to download the very latest AMD64 reference 4-in-1 drivers, which contain:

*) IDE Bus Mastering drivers
*) AGP Driver
*) *.inf* updates

VIA Technologies VIA chipset 4-in-1's for 32-bit and 64-bit systems

[blueviper42]

YAY! 8X AGP NOW

One more thing, do I need to enable fast write in my bios? I almost did after reading something about that, but I wanted to ask so I wouldnt screw anything up.

[Sepht]

Doesn't matter. On or OFf you perform about the same... I have an article on it somewhere... Can't find it, basically it says that it doesn't really matter much either way anymore. A lot of people like off so i would run them with off(mostly stablility and overclockers, I use on, but its only like .3 fps either way and it varies from game to game, use off)

[WarpSpider]

Hi guys, first time poster here.

Since you helped blueviper42 so well, and I didn't want to start a whole new topic, I was wondering if you could give me a little help with the same problem but a different mobo.

I use the Albatron KM18G Pro motherboard, and my graphics card is a Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb. If you need any other info just ask. I have the latest Catalyst drivers installed, I can tell you that much.

I guess I need to do the same stuff as blueviper42, but I'm not sure what exactly to download, nor where to download it. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Sepht]

BIOS
ftp://211.78.163.2/product/it/mb/bios/km1..._pro/18g107.zip

Now im not sure of your OS.... But...Here are the drivers
http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/d...r.asp?pro_id=49

Download the one for the right OS

IF AND ONLY IF THAT DOES NOT WORK
Go here
http://nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
hit nforce/platform
then unified driver
then choose your OS and download

[molle]

no need to update the bios if everything works perfectly fine.
dont fix something that aint broken.
you can f**k up your whole system if you screw up the bios update, so if your totally new to this then do some heavy research on the subject or let someone help you.