AGP in bios

AGP in Everest and Aida is showing as being disabled.
The message reads; AGP is disabled. This may cause performance
penalty.'

I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64

Everest and Aida suggest that AGP in general is disabled,
can anyone shed some light. (especially as to where to look to see
if it is in fact enabled or otherwise)

Gordon Thiele.

fastwrite masterwrite and masterread are what 'makes' agp try resetting them
to Auto
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"gordon thiele" wrote in message
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AGP in Everest and Aida is showing as being disabled.
The message reads; AGP is disabled. This may cause performance
penalty.'

I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64

Everest and Aida suggest that AGP in general is disabled,
can anyone shed some light. (especially as to where to look to see
if it is in fact enabled or otherwise)

Gordon Thiele.

Thanks.
Before I reset them, does my message from everest
and aida indicate that my graphics card is not in use
and an onboard feature is used instead?(onboard=mobo)
or is it saying something else.

Gordon Thiele

"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
fastwrite masterwrite and masterread are what 'makes' agp try resetting
them
to Auto

http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/develope...410.htm?page=1
is a long article but useful
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"gordon thiele" wrote in message
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AGP in Everest and Aida is showing as being disabled.
The message reads; AGP is disabled. This may cause performance
penalty.'

I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64

Everest and Aida suggest that AGP in general is disabled,
can anyone shed some light. (especially as to where to look to see
if it is in fact enabled or otherwise)

Gordon Thiele.

It's saying just what it says, that the AGP functions that are built
into the mobo are disabled. If you have onboard video and are using it,
the AGP functions are disabled. If you have a video card plugged into an
AGP slot, the AGP functions are disabled. If you have a PCI video card,
then whether or not the AGP functions are enabled is irrelevant.

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"gordon thiele" wrote in message
...
Thanks.
Before I reset them, does my message from everest
and aida indicate that my graphics card is not in use
and an onboard feature is used instead?(onboard=mobo)
or is it saying something else.

Gordon Thiele

"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
fastwrite masterwrite and masterread are what 'makes' agp try
resetting
them
to Auto


http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/develope...410.htm?page=1
is a long article but useful
--
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages
before
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"gordon thiele" wrote in message
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AGP in Everest and Aida is showing as being disabled.
The message reads; AGP is disabled. This may cause performance
penalty.'

I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I
think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64

Everest and Aida suggest that AGP in general is disabled,
can anyone shed some light. (especially as to where to look to see
if it is in fact enabled or otherwise)

Gordon Thiele.

gordon thiele wrote:

AGP in Everest and Aida is showing as being disabled.
The message reads; AGP is disabled. This may cause performance
penalty.'

I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64

Everest and Aida suggest that AGP in general is disabled,
can anyone shed some light. (especially as to where to look to see
if it is in fact enabled or otherwise)


I think you should locate appropriate motherboard chipset drivers, this
will include the AGP bus driver, and install that to get hardware (i.e.
possibly your graphics card) on your AGP bus running AGP-enabled.

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Locating and installing the proper chipset drivers is a good idea, if
they aren't already installed.

However, such an exercise will not enable those functions if they're
disabled in BIOS, which appears to be the case.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

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gordon thiele wrote:

AGP in Everest and Aida is showing as being disabled.
The message reads; AGP is disabled. This may cause performance
penalty.'

I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64

Everest and Aida suggest that AGP in general is disabled,
can anyone shed some light. (especially as to where to look to see
if it is in fact enabled or otherwise)


I think you should locate appropriate motherboard chipset drivers,
this
will include the AGP bus driver, and install that to get hardware
(i.e.
possibly your graphics card) on your AGP bus running AGP-enabled.

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Gary S. Terhune wrote:

Locating and installing the proper chipset drivers is a good idea, if
they aren't already installed.

However, such an exercise will not enable those functions if they're
disabled in BIOS, which appears to be the case.


'those functions'

-quote begin-
I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64
-quote end-

I don't know what 'master write/read' is, but took 'driving control -
auto' to mean that AGP might be functional with approriate drivers
installed. And i did write "I think you should ...", as in no harm with
trying and easy to do.

The poster didn't state computer/motherboard/MB chipset/, or whether the
graphics where integrated on the motherboard or not.

In my main PC i have a Nvidia GeForce 3 based card in the AGP slot on
the motherboard. 2 items 'Fastwrite' and 'Sideband addressing' are
disabled in the graphics cards BIOS, and only accessible by using
tweaking sowtware. When people asked if/how to enable them over in
a.c.p.videocards.nvidia many an answer was to leave them disabled
because they could make your system unstable. Things may be different
for newer chips, but then it would probably have been 'mode - 8X'.

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I never said your suggestion was a bad one, only that it didn't address
the OP's specific concerns. And you're right in pointing out that one
reason they might be disabled in the first place was that enabling them
might introduce instability. But any further suggestions would be
useless without having a lot more info about the system in question.

The fact remains that Everest and Aida list AGP as disabled, and the
BIOS settings that OP listed confirm that fact.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"... et al." wrote in message
...
Gary S. Terhune wrote:

Locating and installing the proper chipset drivers is a good idea,
if
they aren't already installed.

However, such an exercise will not enable those functions if they're
disabled in BIOS, which appears to be the case.


'those functions'

-quote begin-
I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I
think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64
-quote end-

I don't know what 'master write/read' is, but took 'driving control -
auto' to mean that AGP might be functional with approriate drivers
installed. And i did write "I think you should ...", as in no harm
with
trying and easy to do.

The poster didn't state computer/motherboard/MB chipset/, or whether
the
graphics where integrated on the motherboard or not.

In my main PC i have a Nvidia GeForce 3 based card in the AGP slot on
the motherboard. 2 items 'Fastwrite' and 'Sideband addressing' are
disabled in the graphics cards BIOS, and only accessible by using
tweaking sowtware. When people asked if/how to enable them over in
a.c.p.videocards.nvidia many an answer was to leave them disabled
because they could make your system unstable. Things may be different
for newer chips, but then it would probably have been 'mode - 8X'.

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You need first to determine what type of display adapter you have....on-board or
AGP/PCI card. Look at the back of your computer. Follow the cable from the back of
your monitor (screen) to the back of the computer tower. Does it connect toward the
lower portion of the case in one of the slots/ or, does it connect closer to the
top, where the USB, keyboard, mouse and other ports are grouped all together?
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"gordon thiele" wrote in message
...
Thanks.
Before I reset them, does my message from everest
and aida indicate that my graphics card is not in use
and an onboard feature is used instead?(onboard=mobo)
or is it saying something else.

Gordon Thiele

"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
fastwrite masterwrite and masterread are what 'makes' agp try resetting
them
to Auto

http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/develope...410.htm?page=1
is a long article but useful
--
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
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links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use

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"gordon thiele" wrote in message
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AGP in Everest and Aida is showing as being disabled.
The message reads; AGP is disabled. This may cause performance
penalty.'

I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64

Everest and Aida suggest that AGP in general is disabled,
can anyone shed some light. (especially as to where to look to see
if it is in fact enabled or otherwise)

Gordon Thiele.

So, you're indicating that disabling the bios setup features for AGP
mentioned by the original poster, may in fact be as set in that fashion to
allow full operability and stability of an add-on AGP card.
And, the assets disabled were meant to either communicate same with the
onboard video chipset, or similar AGP chipset.
Makes sense to me, and the information you've provided is pertinent to the
question posed at the end of the original post in my lowly and insignificant
opinion.
"... et al." wrote in message
...
Gary S. Terhune wrote:

Locating and installing the proper chipset drivers is a good idea, if
they aren't already installed.

However, such an exercise will not enable those functions if they're
disabled in BIOS, which appears to be the case.


'those functions'

-quote begin-
I have an Award Bios. I have been through every inch of it, I think.
The only related settings I see in bios are as follows;
AGP fastwrite - disabled
AGP master write - disabled
AGP master read - disabled
AGP driving control - auto
AGP mode - 4X
AGP aperture size - 64
-quote end-

I don't know what 'master write/read' is, but took 'driving control -
auto' to mean that AGP might be functional with approriate drivers
installed. And i did write "I think you should ...", as in no harm with
trying and easy to do.

The poster didn't state computer/motherboard/MB chipset/, or whether the
graphics where integrated on the motherboard or not.

In my main PC i have a Nvidia GeForce 3 based card in the AGP slot on
the motherboard. 2 items 'Fastwrite' and 'Sideband addressing' are
disabled in the graphics cards BIOS, and only accessible by using
tweaking sowtware. When people asked if/how to enable them over in
a.c.p.videocards.nvidia many an answer was to leave them disabled
because they could make your system unstable. Things may be different
for newer chips, but then it would probably have been 'mode - 8X'.

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E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control.