"Jesper G. Poulsen"
> > Ihvertfald ikke med ATI kort.
>
> Jeg har nVidia.
Jeg tror faktisk det mest er relateret til ATI kort (mit Radeon9800 pro
virkede ikke ved AGP8x).
Her kommer copy/paste fra det link jeg gav, men jeg kan absolut anbefale at
oprette en bruger der. Der er folk der ved en masse om lige netop det
bundkort.
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ccsm
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Member # 31958
Rate Member posted 26. February 2004 02:25 PM
My problem
***********
Have a K7S8XE & an AIW 9800 SE.
If the AGP port is set to x8, my computer freezes during games or tv session
: the display goes out and the PC is out of run unless I reboot.
If the AGP port is set to x4, my computer runs like a charm...
My tries
********
I disabled Fastwrite : no effect
I played with the PCI latency : no effect
I played with the memory settings : no effect
My solution
***********
I have un-installed my Sound Blaster Live ! 5.1 and used the integrated
sound chip instead.
Now I can use the AGP port in x8 with fastwrite enabled and without any
problems...
Hope that can help someone
Now I can set my AGP
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darkprince
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posted 26. February 2004 07:11 PM
Have you tried to move the soundcard to another pci slot?
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Markku
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posted 26. February 2004 08:46 PM
Hi,
I have seen this problem and in my experience the is only one solution : use
4X.
In my tests I can run also 8X without any cards but as soon as I put
firewire & pci modem in 3DMark2001 demo resets (sometimes after 10 hours
sometimes 2 hours). I have a theory that the extra load on pci signals with
extra acrds produce instability in extreme conditions (I use perfomance
bios)
You found out this your self.
You lose practically nothing in speed if you use 4X vs. 8X
But if you need to use PCI sound card, try slot 2. Ie the second from the
agp.
At least in E+ this slot shares IRQ with onboard sound which in this case is
disabled.
Markku
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ccsm
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Member # 31958
Rate Member posted 26. February 2004 09:15 PM
Thanks Markku,
I will give a try to your tricks...
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chemouz93
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Rate Member posted 26. February 2004 10:56 PM
tiens un francais...tu serais pas de rmgt ???
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darkprince
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Member # 32862
posted 26. February 2004 11:04 PM
My Sb Live! didn't workin slot5, but in all other's it's ok.
Now it's in slot2 because as Markku said, it doesn't share any IRQ.
Posts: 103 | From: Portugal | Registered: Dec 2003
Markku
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posted 27. February 2004 07:22 PM
Actually Bluetooth told that to us somewhere, but here is what I tested
today :
K7S8XE+
PCI SLOTS and corresponding board devices
(slot 1=next to agp)
slot 1 --> AGP disply card
slot 2 --> on board sound
slot 3 --> on board lan (sis900)
slot 4 --> AGP display card (again)
slot 5 --> on board SATA (SIS180)
So as already mentioned
if you use pci soundcard it is best to use slot 2 and disable onboard sound
If you use pci lan (1GB or wireless) it is best to use slot 3 and disable on
board lan
if you use pci modem it would be logically best to use slot 3 but disabling
on board lan is not probably necessary. This is of course dependent on how
well drivers share the irq
if you use PATA ide slot 5 is free to use especially if you disable on board
sata
slots 1&4 are not good if you have a powerful vga card and use it heavily
(games probably)
Hope this helps, it surely opened my eyes where to put extra cards.
Also I hope that I got it right. I think this applies to K7S8X & E also
(excluding SATA of course)
Markku
Posts: 169 | From: Finland | Registered: Aug 2001
DESTINEAL
Junior Member
Member # 33161
Rate Member posted 28. February 2004 04:20 AM
I have that very problem with my K7S8XE Revision 3.0 and my ATI Radeon 9800
128mb. Unlike you, I use onboard sound and I have a USB 2.0 PCI card in slot
5. The only thing that stopped the freezing for me was setting the AGP to 4X
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Markku
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posted 28. February 2004 08:12 AM
Destineal,
With K7S8XE it seems that you must use 4X. We tested this with multiple
boards & multiple Radeon 9800SE AIWs.
But it is no big deal. I am suprised if there is more than 1% perfomance
difference in any game between 8X or 4X.
At least 3DMark2001 / 2003 can't show any differences.
Markku
Markku
Posts: 169 | From: Finland | Registered: Aug 2001
RayvenX
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Member # 18953
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posted 28. February 2004 01:15 PM
I can find out if the same thing happens with my K7S8X-E+ and hardmodded
9800SE AIW (Which should be identical to a 9800pro AIW? The part number
sticker on it even says pro )
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gripen
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Member # 11096
posted 28. February 2004 02:00 PM
Some kt600 boards also have problems enabling AGP8x.
Bad implementation by chipset or mobo manufacturers perhaps?
Posts: 2850 | From: SG | Registered: Mar 2002
Abit are just as bad.
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posted 28. February 2004 03:18 PM
My K7S8X had a minefield of prob's when I bought it. No matter what I did it
would reboot at will.
I'd recommend downloading Fanspeed & check your CPU temp. If it's above 50
Deg C I'd get a big fat COPPER Heatsink & an Aero7 fan or similar.
ALL my prob's were down to heat. After I fitted the above cooler ALL my
prob's disappeared.
It runs at about 45/47 Deg' C now under full load & NEVER crashes/reboots or
freezes.
Fanspeed costs nothing so it's worth checking.
Hope this helps
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gripen
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Member # 11096
posted 29. February 2004 10:40 AM
I think it's called SpeedFan instead.
Posts: 2850 | From: SG | Registered: Mar 2002
Abit are just as bad.
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posted 29. February 2004 01:06 PM
Speedfan it is, I stand corrected
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Edu100
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Member # 34532
Rate Member posted 26. April 2004 06:43 AM
I have the same problem.
I have k7s8x-e r3 bios 1.80, ati radeon 9800 pro BBA. I already tried
everything. If I put 8x and try play a game, crash!!! then I put 4x and
perfect!!
I think this mb can´t supply the necessary power for agp 1.5v, maybe if this
can be changed to 1,6 or 1,7v.... would solve the problem.
I don´t tried others bios yet.
Any Sugestions?
Posts: 5 | From: Brazil | Registered: Apr 2004