pr-man 1 Posted March 25, 2000 Ok I had posted my problem with having to use a 4 meg apeture in Windows 2000 to get to the desktop and how it was limiting me to only AGP 1x. Well today was a good day, I called FIC tech support and left a message, lo and behold they called me back 5 mins later and twice after that They said that they were not familiar with my problme but that was because they have never tested the G400 and the PA-2013 rev 2.0 using windows 2000. They have however tested the combonation using the PA-2013 rev 2.1 board and have had no problems at all. He suggested that I switch to the rev 2.1 board since it is Windows 2000 certified. He also said that if anyone else is having the same problem im haveing with the rev 2.0 board and windows 2000 and the g400 to call them and if enough call they will test it and create a fix. Here comes the good part. he then offered to switch out my rev 2.0 board for a rev 2.1 at no charge which I am going to do Ps. He also said he will contact VIA and see if they know anything about problems with their win2k AGP driver call them here and let them know your problems and they will test it and make a fix. He said they can only fix what they know about (510) 252-7777 ------------------ ***TRUST YOUR TECHNOLUST*** Share this post Link to post
pr-man 1 Posted March 26, 2000 Dont forget guys to call FIC at that number and get thm moving pr-man Share this post Link to post
pr-man 1 Posted April 3, 2000 ok well i tried disabling the busmastering in display properties and it allowed me to change the apeture to 128 and get through startup but agp 1x is still the only active, plus I refuse to believe that this is the only fix because disabling busmastering is like cutting the G400 in half performance wise anyway (plus never had to disable busmastering in Win98). Well I ran powerstrip and got something interesting from the pcilist info. Why are their two listing for pci bridge and why is one disabled? Diagnostic report -------------------------------------------------- CPU speed - 452 MHz System board - VIA Primary graphics card - Matrox 0525h Silicon revision - 03h Memory clock - 168 MHz Graphics clock - 126 MHz Graphics card BIOS version - (V1.5) b22 Graphics card IRQ - IRQ9, not shared Graphics card AGP revision - 2.00 System board AGP aperture - 4 MB System board AGP transfer support - 1x, 2x Graphics card AGP transfer support - 1x, 2x AGP traffic currently enabled - 1x System board SBA - supported Graphics card SBA - supported AGP sideband currently enabled - yes Pipelined transactions - supported, queue depth of 8 Fast write protocol - n/a Graphics card memory - 32 MB DirectX memory - 30 MB AGP mode - DIME Windows version - 5.0.2195 DirectX version - 5.00.2180.1 Driver name - g400m.sys Driver version - 5.00.2195.1030 OpenGL driver - g400icd.dll OpenGL version - 5.03.025 Device enumeration -------------------------------------------------- VIA CPU bridge (05971106h) VIA PCI bridge (85981106h) VIA ISA bridge (05861106h) VIA IDE controller (05711106h) VIA USB (30381106h) - using IRQ11 VIA PCI bridge (30401106h) - disabled Matrox VGA controller (0525102Bh) - using IRQ9 Share this post Link to post
