Can't enable AGP!

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Dawkin

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Hi, I upgraded from a Geforce 2 MX 32Mb to a Geforce 4 Ti4200 64Mb. Unfortunately I see very little improvement in performance! My 3D Benchmark2001E has gone from 4500 to 5500, and in practice it's even worse: games like Return to Castle wolfenstein still drop to as low as 10 FPS!!

One thing I've noticed is that when I go into control panel->display->MSI information, the boxes concerning AGP are not ticked and it won't let me tick them! My motherboard has AGP enabled in the bios and is AGP 4 compatable.

I've tried the drivers from the CD, the drivers from the MSI website, and some detonator 30.00 drivers, none of which help.

There's only two things I can think I've done "wrong/differently".

1) I didnt uninstall the geforce 2 before installing the new card.
2) I installed the geforce tweak utility when I had my geforce 2 and the first few times I loaded it up after upgrading it said I didnt have a geforce card - so it's obviously a bit confused :)

Can anyone please help because this is the biggest waste of £140 I've ever made!

Here's my system:

Athlon XP 1700
Microstar turbo motherboard
256 Mb PC133
Geforce 4 Ti4200 64Mb
Windows 98
 
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Try to install newest AGP driver ( not VGA card driver)from motherboard manufacture and please give attention, don't pick any choice that give you direction to use PCI bus or standar mode if you can please select custom installation not standar installation.

Risk at your own ;)
 
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Thanks I'll try that. By the way, I notice people talking about "going into the cards bios". By this, do you just mean via control panel->display->MSI stuff, or is there somewhere else I don't know about?
 
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Uninstall any GeForce tweak utility.

Check in the Control Panel/ System if there are any devices with a question mark or are marked as disabled. At Display here you can check the info about the driver you are using. If any device has a question mark then uninstall it (them) and reboot. It might be a good idea to uninstall the display driver. Next time Win 98 starts provide the necessary drivers (even the latest for AGP, if requested). Make sure you are using the appropriate Display driver (and not an older version installed automatically by Win98.

Check also the load of the CPU when idle. If you get a reading close to full load then there might be an IRQ conflict, or some driver not correctly installed.

If unsuccessful, you can backup your Win98 using Norton Ghost on another drive, then format the system partition and clean install Win98, providing the right drivers. This will only take you about 40 min and you can see if a clean install solves the problem. If not, you can have your system back the way it was in just a few minutes.

Bluesky
 
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Thanks Bluesky, I'm at work at the moment but I'll try that when I get home.

I'm wondering if in fact 5400 is all my system should get? It looks low compared with some results other people have posted but I know people have a habit of exagerating :)

Is there any way of telling for sure if I'm using AGP or not? Is it possible that it is using AGP, and a 1.8 Athlon XP with PC133 ram just cant get any higher than a 5400 score?
 
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Try CPUID. It's free and it shows info about CPU, mainboard, memory and also video card - AGP, enabled/disabled, 1x, 2x ... supported or not, active or not.

For your configuration, the score seems rather low. I get 4200 with PIII @910 MHz and a Abit Siluro GF4 MX 460.

Good luck
 
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