Slaphappy

I have AGP drivers on the cd that came with my MB. but there is no way to auto install them...and when I look under system devices in the Device Manager this is what I see

buch of stuff yadda...

VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller

VIA Tech CPU to PCI bridge

VIA Tech PCI to ISA bridge

I've tryed updateing drivers and pointing them to the AGP drivers on the cd but it never sayes they are the right ones...

Dweez eveytime i start up windows i get this VIA bus master IDE driver thing coming up saying it found new hardware and needs to install drivers. I have looked and looked but can find no drivers that will make what ever this thing is happy.

What I was worried about was that my AGP drivers on MB needed to be reinstalled/updated.....But I can't for the life of me find out where they are or how to update them

talking about MB drivers.....also I found this

Category:

AGP, display & 3D problems

Question:

My VIA chipset and my GeForce video card support 4X AGP. I have 4X AGP set in BIOS but will only run at 2X AGP. Help!

Answer:

2 things may cause this.

1)If you are using an ApolloPro133A chipset the BIOS may be providing the wrong chipset information to the operating system and identifying it as an ApolloPro133. Nvidia drivers automatically set 4X AGP to off. This registry patch will correct this.

2) If you have used a tweaking program for your GeForce card it may have set your VIA chipset 4X AGP to off in the registry. Download and run this patch to correct it.

I'm using the ApolloPro133A chipset......I downloaded the patch, restarted still 2x

For good mesure i DL the other patch, restarted.....still 2x

I'm really starting to wonder If the drivers for my MB are compatable with XP....on the CD there is a folder for win 2k and eveything down but there is no XP. and it looks like the drivers online are the same as the ones on my cd

I'm getting this bad feeling that the only way I'm gonna get a card to run at 4x is to get a new MB...I mean I could live with that If I had money for one....Dosn't help that I just got this MB two weeks ago either

Dweez I sent you a pic check your mail bro

In display I go to advanced...Then click the GeForce3 Ti 200 tab.

Brings up the lots of info with a slideout window of stuff like open GL, overlay all kinds of crap.....On the first "page" when I first click on it Up at top it tells me Processor: Geforce3 Ti 200

under that it sais IRQ:5 BIOS 3.20.00.18.14

TV Encoder Type: Conexant Bt868

All thats in the Green top part then there is

Adapter Information

Bus: AGP 2x

Memorty: 64 MB

Then System Information Etc.

Dear God Is there nothing I can do.

correct me if i'm wrong but these drivers it's looking for are the ones that would affect my agp right?

OK i've installed them (several times) but still runs at 2x and still every time I start up i get the New hadware found VIA bus master IDE drivers.....but It can't ever find drivers and I can't find the drivers it wants....I tryed directing it to the ones that Rooster just gave me a link to but it says no go.

i'm confused ok so was that link the drivers i need for the VIA Chipset?

Starting to wonder if the drivers that I dowloaded are compatible with XP...after I installed them there is some VGA thing that It can't find drivers for on start up....evey time i start up.....Oh ya the model is a AV18E V4.0

ya someone posted about it on goop before....might have even been sim. Anyway I downloaded the newest drivers for my motherboard but the self installer dosn't work.

When I go update the sis Graphics port and point it too the drivers i downloaded it dosn't think they are the right drivers...When I install them with the Have disk option It trys to install then restarts my comptuer every time.

Thanks rooster. Unfortaly that patch thingy I had didn't work....I did however force to me reformat. Anyway now with Windows installed again i'm back to the same problem. It's running at 2x when it should be running at 4x.

Homer, It's not an issue of if my mb supports 4x agp or not. I know it does and I have it enable in the bios

Ok anyone have any ideas. Anyone else ever had probls with card with Nvidia drivers running at the wrong bus speed?

I've got a Geforce 3 ti200 some crappy spacewalker MB and i'm running XP

I installed the latest drivers off Nvida's website and was tweeking then when I notice it tells me it's running at 2x.

Since there is no option to change this with the nivida software I check my Bios. It's set to be running at 4x/

I had this problem before with at Geforce 2 and I got a patch that would fix this. Prob is I'm pretty sure that was for my old mother board (the one i broke......don't ask)

What this patch tells me to do is open device manager and Click on the PCI-to-PCI bridge. and update the driver to what they gave me.

Problem is there is no PCI-PCI bridge. I do searchers and eveything I can think of but I can't find this thing.

Here is what it said

"Go to device manager, right-click on the PCI-PCI bridge

which represents your AGP bridge and select "Properties".

2. Select the "Driver" page and push the "Update Driver"

button. Go through the update driver wizard and on the

"Locate Driver Files" page select "Specify a location"

3. Enter the location of your new INF and driver."

Ok any idea's on what the problem is here. Anyone had problems with a Nvidia card running at 2x when it should be 4?