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G200 isn't able to work in AGP 2x mode
Hi, my Matrox Millennium G200 AGP isn't able to work in AGP 2x mode. Here is some
more infos:
- the mainboard is an Epox EP-MVP3G (a "friend" of G200
) with Apollo MVP3 AGPset and 1MB of ROM. On this board the BIOS is the latest version on Epox site and I've installed the latest version of VIA 4 in 1 drivers. In the BIOS I've AGP Aperture size set to 256M, disabled all the video shadow things and Video BIOS cachable. I've an IRQ assigned to VGA and AGP Master 1 WS Write and Read disabled. On the motherboard the SDRAM clock is set to equal to CPU bus clock (i.e. 100Mhz) and there is no overclocking.
- the graphic card is a Matrox G200 chipset (as I told before) with 8 MB of video RAM.
I've version 6.23.005 of Matrox drivers, 6.23.042 of Powerdesk, 2.7 - 23 of G200 card BIOS. Don't know if it's important, however version 4.12.01.2730 for video driver and Mini VDD. Some settings: bus master is on, 32 bit Z buffer is on, Device Bitmap cache is on, polygon acceleration is on (sorry if some names are incorrect, but I use italian version of the software, so the names are translated).
I'm not able to force AGP2x mode with Matrox Technical Support Tweak. In fact here I can see AGP version 1, Maximum chipset Speed 2x, current chipset speed 1x, current video card speed 1x and sideband addressing ON, but when I set 2x AGP, apply and restart the system, the setting is always on 1x AGP. (the video clock is not overclocked). I think that AGP is not faulty, because when I set Standard PCI VGA as graphic card instead of my Matrox G200, the AGP mode is 2x and not 1x.
Other interesting infos: the OS is Windows 98 version 4.10.2222 A, CPU is AMD K6-II 3DNow at 350Mhz, 128MB RAM, DirectX are 4.08.00.0400.
Sorry if I asked some F.A.Q. or if the infos reported are incomplete or messed, and sorry for my english. Thanks to all of you, bye, Diego.
P.S.: whith the system so configured I've no other problems on system restart or system
freezes or IRQ problems.
more infos:
- the mainboard is an Epox EP-MVP3G (a "friend" of G200
) with Apollo MVP3 AGPset and 1MB of ROM. On this board the BIOS is the latest version on Epox site and I've installed the latest version of VIA 4 in 1 drivers. In the BIOS I've AGP Aperture size set to 256M, disabled all the video shadow things and Video BIOS cachable. I've an IRQ assigned to VGA and AGP Master 1 WS Write and Read disabled. On the motherboard the SDRAM clock is set to equal to CPU bus clock (i.e. 100Mhz) and there is no overclocking.- the graphic card is a Matrox G200 chipset (as I told before) with 8 MB of video RAM.
I've version 6.23.005 of Matrox drivers, 6.23.042 of Powerdesk, 2.7 - 23 of G200 card BIOS. Don't know if it's important, however version 4.12.01.2730 for video driver and Mini VDD. Some settings: bus master is on, 32 bit Z buffer is on, Device Bitmap cache is on, polygon acceleration is on (sorry if some names are incorrect, but I use italian version of the software, so the names are translated).
I'm not able to force AGP2x mode with Matrox Technical Support Tweak. In fact here I can see AGP version 1, Maximum chipset Speed 2x, current chipset speed 1x, current video card speed 1x and sideband addressing ON, but when I set 2x AGP, apply and restart the system, the setting is always on 1x AGP. (the video clock is not overclocked). I think that AGP is not faulty, because when I set Standard PCI VGA as graphic card instead of my Matrox G200, the AGP mode is 2x and not 1x.
Other interesting infos: the OS is Windows 98 version 4.10.2222 A, CPU is AMD K6-II 3DNow at 350Mhz, 128MB RAM, DirectX are 4.08.00.0400.
Sorry if I asked some F.A.Q. or if the infos reported are incomplete or messed, and sorry for my english. Thanks to all of you, bye, Diego.
P.S.: whith the system so configured I've no other problems on system restart or system
freezes or IRQ problems.
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