XP and VIA KX133 chipset crash

[DaveBC 0]

Since I upgraded from Win98SE to XP whenever I enable AGP 4x with fast writes system becomes unstable and crashes.... Am using VIA4in1 437v(a) Vid Card is Gforce 2 GTS/Pro With Nvidia Ref Driver Version 23.11. I am currently working with AGP 4x enabled with fast writes disabled, and the system is stable. Sys specs: Athlon slot A 850 mhz,

SB Live X Gamer 5.1, Conexant v.90 56k Flex modem, Any one with info on this situation would be appreciated. Thanx

[DaveBC 0]

256 mb Kingmax PC133 Cas2 Clk2, AGP Apature 64mb

[Brian Frank 0]

Fast writes are know to do that. There's nothing you can really do about it, just leave it off. You're not loosing much performance anyway.

 

The only thing I can think of is if you didn't do a clean install going from 98 to XP, but I somehow doubt that would be detrimental to you in the way of fast writes crashing you out.

[valery 0]

Hello, I have exactly the same problem but with AGP 2x ...Thanks Via !

 

I think that I found an issue, maybe incredible, but it works for me !

I download the geforcetweakutility (the latest beta version), and, in this one, I enable the option "Enable the drivers to use AGP 4x". You could enable some other options for AGP fastwrites.

So, in other words, try with the "geforce tweakutility" !

 

Now it works ... Maybe crazy but ...

Try it, perhaps that it will works !!

 

PS, download it from :

http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/tuemler/beta/GTUsetup.exe

 

Homepage:

http://www.geforcetweak.com/

[DaveBC 0]

thanx Valerie seems to be stable.. so far so good

[pmistry 0]

I have a VIA KX133 chipset too, running an Asus K7V mainboard with BIOS revision 1008-D. Stable like anything but with fast writes disabled. I did upgrade ME to XP once and it just messed everything.

I am not using the VIA chipset drivers, using default XP bundled drivers. Got 512 Megs of PC133, AGP Size at 64 megs, Fastwrites and SBA off, Creative's SB Live drivers, and using the VIA PCI latency patch at VIA Hardware all is well.