voodoo3 AGP support problem with P5A-B

[Paul_AUT]

I have a voodoo 3 2000 agp running on my AMD K6-2 333 / 64mb ram with a
P5A-B asus motherboard with the Ali aladdin V AGPset. Though having
installed the newest 3dfx drivers (1.03.05 ) and the Ali drivers included on
the CD (vers. 1.30) as well as the newsest bios, I don't seem able to have
AGP support. Directx 7 as well as my benchmark program (3dMark2000) tells me
the V3 is running on PCI bus. (the card itself of course is installed in the
AGP slot and runs fine)
I've tried the newer Ali drivers vers 1.65, instaling my V3 drivers
afterwards again, as well, but still have no AGP support even after updating
my bios to the newest version. I've been trying to fix this problems for
months now and since noone couuld tell me where the problem lies I'd
appreciate some help

my system runst at 1024*768 True color at a view point 17" screen
Bios version Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Bios Date 10/19/99

thanks in advance

Paul Slezak

[Mike Bales]

Paul_AUT <a972...@unet.univie.ac.at> wrote in message
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> I have a voodoo 3 2000 agp running on my AMD K6-2 333 / 64mb ram with a
> P5A-B asus motherboard with the Ali aladdin V AGPset. Though having
> installed the newest 3dfx drivers (1.03.05 ) and the Ali drivers included
on
> the CD (vers. 1.30) as well as the newsest bios, I don't seem able to have
> AGP support. Directx 7 as well as my benchmark program (3dMark2000) tells
me
> the V3 is running on PCI bus. (the card itself of course is installed in
the
> AGP slot and runs fine)

Sorry you spent so much time on a non-problem. The Voodoo cards may sit in
the AGP slot and benefit from a 66Mhz dedicated bus, but they use none of
the AGP functions for using main ram for texture memory. So they are of
course either seen as PCI cards (since the AGP bus is just an extension of
that spec), or of not being AGP supported, which they don't. You don't even
need the AGP drivers, except to satisfy DirectX maybe. Now if you had a
K6-2-350 or higher with a CXT core, the AGP drivers would enable the chips
write combining feature, but that doesn't matter on the 333.

[Paul_AUT]

thanks for helping,that was the 1st clear answer in a long row. at least i
can stop trying now :)

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