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HOW-TO: Enable AGP 8X w/ ATI

post #1 of 28
11/27/03 at 5:37pm
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First: Make sure you have the latest ATI drivers which are version 7.95 installed on your AW.

Second: Download this. Those are the drivers for the AGP part of the motherboard in the AW.

Third: Extract the file to a new folder. Open up the file and install the driver. Once the sytem reboots open up the file again and click on the folder AGP>AGPUtil> and click on the AGPutil application.

Finally: When the application is open select the transfer rate you want, in this case it will be AGP 8X. Click OK and reboot the system. When it reboots go into display properties>settings>advanced>ati options>details. It will show that it is in AGP 8X.

Good Luck!

-Mike
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post #2 of 28
11/27/03 at 7:00pm
Good stuff, good for an FAQ...
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post #3 of 28
11/28/03 at 4:44pm
Hi,

Maybe this will help also. This is from SIS's website regarding the 648FX chipset which is used on the Area-51m:

http://download.sis.com/index_step2....t=76&x=11&y=11
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post #4 of 28
11/28/03 at 4:50pm
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Yeah, that's the exact same thing. My link takes you directly to the donload instead of having to choose. If you look at the properties of my link it points to the sis website.
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post #5 of 28
11/28/03 at 10:21pm

Benchmarks - 8X vs 4X - does it matter?

Anyone done any? --
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post #6 of 28
11/28/03 at 10:39pm
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It improves the benchmarks. With 4x my 3d mark score was 2665. With 8x my score was 2878. When I overclocked with 8x my score was 3135.
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post #7 of 28
12/14/03 at 10:00pm
also with the catalyst 3.8/3.9 and 3.10 beta drivers smart gart tab in display properties lets you change the agp speed to 8x.

download the latest catalyst drivers from www.ati.com

and then mod them with the modding tool from www.driverheaven.net to get them working on the mobility video card

updated gart drivers can be downloaded from the sis site as well
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post #8 of 28
12/14/03 at 10:03pm
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That's one way to go but this is the way AW would want you to do it and that is what they are doing. A cool fact is, is that I a 14 year old told AW how to enable 8X AGP with the drivers and that is the way they do it now.
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post #9 of 28
12/14/03 at 10:23pm
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Originally Posted by Mechanic
That's one way to go but this is the way AW would want you to do it and that is what they are doing. A cool fact is, is that I a 14 year old told AW how to enable 8X AGP with the drivers and that is the way they do it now.
hmmm. are you the 14 year old person you are talking about?
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post #10 of 28
12/14/03 at 10:27pm
ok but ive just turned 7 and ive pulled pulled apart/fixed about 300 laptops ,adorned the front covers of pc magazines for my case deisigns..
ran the great wall of china , wrestled komodo dragons, chased bears up the slopes of mount fuji, swam with great whites and f@@ed 632 women of the worlds most beautiful woman..

i look forward to the next 7 years..

just messin.. im actualyl 12.. the rest is true
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post #11 of 28
12/14/03 at 10:33pm
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Originally Posted by dr_jones
ok but im only 4 and ive pulled apart about 300 laptops and ive adorned the front covers of pc magazines for my case deisigns..
haha!
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post #12 of 28
12/14/03 at 10:51pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by harkon
hmmm. are you the 14 year old person you are talking about?
Yes
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post #13 of 28
12/14/03 at 10:52pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dr_jones
ok but ive just turned 7 and ive pulled pulled apart/fixed about 300 laptops ,adorned the front covers of pc magazines for my case deisigns..
ran the great wall of china , wrestled komodo dragons, chased bears up the slopes of mount fuji, swam with great whites and f@@ed 632 women of the worlds most beautiful woman..

i look forward to the next 7 years..

just messin.. im actualyl 12.. the rest is true
My username is Mechanic because I fix computers and other stuff. I am the tech person at my school besides the other professionals that work there. I help teachers and other stuff.
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post #14 of 28
12/14/03 at 10:56pm
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Originally Posted by Mechanic
My username is Mechanic because I fix computers and other stuff. I am the tech person at my school besides the other professionals that work there. I help teachers and other stuff.
oh. haha. then you and i are the absolute opposites... i haven´t even figured out how to record thing with my VHS-thing... which is not a problem, as i never watch tv. haha...
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post #15 of 28
12/14/03 at 11:08pm
just messin man its good to see people taking an early interest i.. ive just been helping the son of a friend here build his first pc.. hes quick at learning.

but strangely just three months ago i was the first recorded observer of a brown bear half way up the slopes of mount fuji.. japanese wildlife organisations went crazy at the news since all they had in way of proof of its existance at that height up until that point was a photo of a clawed tree trunk. oh and komodo dragons are a lot quicker than you'd think.. and they get pretty pissed off with mad english men chasing them about with a camera

hey i had fun though.
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post #16 of 28
12/21/03 at 4:49am

Compute On ............

Good to hear today's youth is taking interest like I did ..I am 45 and there were no computers really in the consumer market when I started working on them back in 76. I was working at a mini/mainframe company for my first job and since have worked at places like Osborne Computers (first luggable computer in the world) to running my own computer consutling business in the late 80 to mid 90's, where I built over a 1000+ computers for clients, to now working for a SAN/NAS compnay as a manager of a large team of testers of the product..Computers are my life and have paid me well, both in $$$$ and in fun..and love to see others loving them too.. Compute on people....
Nuke
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post #17 of 28
12/21/03 at 11:01am
Amen brother!

-Craig
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post #18 of 28
1/3/04 at 7:38pm
I am 22 now, and of course I started at around age 8. I have worked lots of DOE, DOD contracts, and now I am in Iraq all thanks to computer games (how I got interested). While being in Iraq definately sucks...I am making some SERIOUS bank. Anyone have a job opportunity open for a systems administrator? I'd like to come back to the states, and live a normal life with my wife. But on a lighter note...keep on Mechanic...you'll make serious bank too.
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post #19 of 28
2/5/04 at 4:22pm
Guys,

Does this update affect the system from a heat/reliability point of view or is it a stock setting that AW just didn't configure correctly.


Thanks!
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post #20 of 28
2/24/04 at 1:51pm
I wouldn't think it would increase heat much.

I would think the preferred method of enabling AGP-8x would be via ATI's SmartGART.

Obviously if you CAN enable it from SmartGART, it's already supported by the AGP/GART drivers. So what the SiS AGP driver upgrade you propose seems to be doing is to FORCE the ATI drivers to run the card at 8x regardless of their setting.

SmartGART is designed to only enable features like AGP-8x if it detects that stability would not be compromised, so I'd feel safer enabling it that way.

Of course, I still like to have the newest drivers of everything. Except in my desktop. Any driver revision after 3.10 causes Half-Life to lock up. As does any control panel revision after 3.1. So I've got the 3.1 panel with the 3.10 drivers, quite a mismatch, but it works. Any time I try to upgrade anything HL starts crashing, so I'm not touching it

EDIT: Alienware claims the chipset is an "SiS648FX + SiS963L AGP8X Chipset", so considering "AGP8X" is in the specs I'd consider it the proper config to be running in AGP8x mode.
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