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Spydergsx
11-15-1999, 04:10 PM
I have a mother board with the onboard 8mb AGP shared memory. I installed the driver for thing and it worked, but there was no 3d.
It is supposed to be a 3d card. I have my grphics blaster riva tnt with 16 mb and it works fine. What i want to know is if the agp is faster than the pci and should i keep working on the agp to get it to work? any suggestions on getting the agp to be able to handle 3d since it is supposed to?
Ygor
11-15-1999, 04:14 PM
Which motherboard is it? I doubt I'll have an answer, but it would help those who can answer to know which board.
Might check on a bios upgrade for it at the manufacturer's site too.
Spydergsx
11-15-1999, 04:17 PM
It is a PcChips M575 or something like that. I'm not sure exactly.
deep_sky
11-15-1999, 11:00 PM
you cannot disable the on-board agp on pc-chips motherboards. You can set the primary graphics adapter to be your pci card in the bios, but the agp remains enabled. I take this to mean that you can never be entirely free of the agp graphics, which on my board (m599lmr) does not appear to do so. That is the downside of pc-chips motherboards. If you can afford it and want that 3d capability, then get another motherboard.