Thread: XP. Where is my AGP Support in the BIOS?

Thanks to those who responded.

It's all ok now.

Briefly, as opinions seemed to point to the Graphics Card I tried to obtain a new one suitable for this machine.
Unfortunately, nothing available as mine is a 2x & the norm these days appears to be a 4x or more.

The computer shop I went to, could not supply anything suitable as the pins were different.

They rummaged around & heard my cries for help & found me an old card from a dismantled computer. (I think the tears helped there.) No details, gratis, take it & go, mate.

Bunged it in &it was a a bit slow. (Terminator Intel i740).
Straight away it showed up in Device Manager with Driver Rollback etc which it had not done & also in 'Everest'. A good start then.

Found a Website that had Drivers for this card but was for Win 2000, but they said it may also be suitable for XP, & Microsoft claimed it was on the XP CD but very difficult to find.

With nothing to lose, except maybe a fritzed MoBo I bunged them in & rebooted (PV 40 9x Intel i740) & wonder of wonders, it all came together as it was previously. Resolution is fine, scrolling is fine & my computer experience is once again enjoyable.

Now a happy camper again.


Now, I just have to get Nero 6 Backitup to work, as trying to rectify this, is where my problems seemed to start.

Computers! Don't yer just love 'em?


Oh btw. I never did discover where 'AGP Support' is despite a lot of looking.

I recently fitted an 8x AGP card to my Pc which is 4x, but most AGPs are backward compatible.
My Mobo detected the AGP and disabled the onboard graphics.
I had a lot of trouble though and all the googling on my graphic card did not result in any solutions. It would work for say 1/2hr then shutdown, mouse and KB would stop and freeze and I had to reboot.
I when into bios and change AGP aperture size, used a proggie called Drivercleaner pro to remove any old drivers for video cards in the system and installed clean drivers.
It now seems to work ok, except on one of the kids games, ( but that is a software issue )
The card was causing problems on XP although it is XP and Vista certified.
Yet it had Linux support and on Linux it worked out of the box without any problems and without installing any drivers.
It took me weeks to get it working correctly on XP
Believe me I know what your going through, it peeves you off

and there I was with a agp card for sale,,,,

yea, there was a lot of trouble with older drivers not unistalling properly,, Detonator destroyer etc seemed to fix these. There are some MONSTER AGP cards available these days,,,

Bloody hell! I'd forgotten all about this.

I'm told that the pin configuration is different from a 2x to a 4x & to get that I'd need to change the mobo, so really I'm still stuck with a 2nd hand card which btw is still operating ok.

Now, having said that.............................................. .....

an AGP slot is an AGP slot is an AGP slot
(hmm early on was there an AGP Pro??)