No AGP Texture Acceleration

[bw]

Powerstrip says AGP support is "not available." DirectX 8.1 says AGP Texture Acceleration: Not Available. And in 3DMark2001 benchmark test, the sky is bright white, some missing rendered detail, and low frame rate I'm using the lastest driver from ATi's website: "Catalyst" for my ATI Radeon 8500 LE.

How can I enable AGP Support in Power Strip? In DirectX 8.1 I do have DirextX 3D Acceleration, but No AGP "Texture Acceleraton." How can it be enabled?

System Specification:
DFI AD73 Pro DDR mobo
AMD T-Bird 1.47gig
Mushkin DDR PC2100 256Meg
ATI Radeaon 8500 LE
IBM 40gig ATA100 5400 RPM
Macron 350watt PSU
Lite ON DVD ROM 16X
Phillips CR-CW 4X4X24
Name of the monitor I'm using is "digital," 17in. monitor analog

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Come on one of you must be able to help this person.
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[bw]

I bought my new Radeon 8500 LE last week. Since then I have been trying and trying to get this card to work right. I even bought a new motherboard for it, and Radeon 8500 LE still does not work right. I heard and read much about how good Radeon 8500 is...but I hate the "fricken" card I received, that is the first ATi graphic card I ever own and it will be the last. I decided I'm going to return it to the vendor for a Geforce3 Ti 200. In the mean time, I'm putting back my 3dfx Voodoo5 back in my system.

[MoxManiac]

My Radeon 8500 installed without a hitch and works great. Maybe you got a bad one or something.

[Lodzermensch]

I recall similar issue from before. As far as I remember it required to me to download the latest AGP drivers. In my case it was VIA KT 333 on my ASUS A7V 333, www.viaarena.com. I believe if you go to direct X diagnostics you do not see the APG texture acceleration highlighted/enabled and the "3d cube" does not spin smoothly. There is nothing wrong with your ATI Radeon
Hope it will help

[outlaw_revolver]

Update all the drivers you can such as your motherboard chip set and try other drivers for your card and try maybe even a different windows such as 2000,xp,98 se , ME, 95 (just kidding about 95)

[bw]

I changed the AGP via 4-in-1 driver version 4.37 from mobo installatioin CD to version 4.20a, the ones I downloaded from the viaarena site. It did no good. No AGP Texture Acceleration in DirectX 8.1. I changed operating system from win9x to winxp. It did no good. I looked at DirectX 8.1 showed no 3D Acceleration and no AGP Texture Acceleration.