Terrible AGP Performance

[CellusD]

I have the A7v133 board with a Leadtek 32MB 256DDR video card, 2 IBM DMA100 46gig harddrives, 1 IBM DMA66 20gig hardrive, 1 IBM 10GIG DMA33 harddrive, a SBLive Platinum sound card, 1 Plextor 16x cdrw, 1 Pioneer DVD player, a Kingston Ethernet card and a Toshiba cdrom. I can't run the 3DMark2000 test higher than a 1500 point score. I have used the 4in1 4.25 and 4.28 drivers and the 404 agp drivers, nothing helps. All suggestions will be GREATLY appreciated!!!

[MR RAYMOND HEAD]

Hmmm, you have alot of Harddrives and Cdrom devices running
Perhaps because you have used the UDMA100 & UDMA66 sockets you have had to Install the Latest Promise Bus Master Drivers & I presume the VIA 4 in1 Drivers (and installed the IDE drivers from this as well)

The only problem with these is they are both extremely slow
(Well in my experience anyway)

what i would do if your getting such a low score is reinstall windows completely...

Install the latest Detonator Video drivers currently at Version Number 10.80
(Turn Vsync off using NVMAX or Coolbits.reg)
you can get the Video Drivers from http://zoiah.m3dzone.com/

And Can Probably get the others from
http://www.Voodooextreme.com
http://www.3Dfiles.com

Install the VIA 4 in 1 Drivers V4.29
(Dont install the ATAPI IDE drivers, that come with it these will cause problems with your Hardrive's)

Get these from http://www.viahardware.com

Dont install the promise drivers
(The Hardrives will still work, they will just have an exclamation mark ! next to the Mass storage controller)

Make sure you have a permanant Virtual memory swap file minimum 128MB maximum 128MB


Set your Minimum & Maximum disk cache to 65536
and Tick the Conservative Virtual memory box
using CACHEMAN
you can get Cacheman 4.0 from http://www.Tweakfiles.com

Then Restart your computer

Also in the bios
Switch Fastwrite ON
Bytemerge OFF

Cant think of anything else
Try these and see if they work

[Klondikekit]

http://pub90.ezboard.com/fjuggernaut...cID=1988.topic


and here is the proof

http://pub26.ezboard.com/fjuggernaut...picID=15.topic

You must wipe it all out and install according to the guides. The A7V series is VERY tempermental about how devices and drivers are installed.

good luck

[Trym]

Originally posted by CellusD
I can't run the 3DMark2000 test higher than a 1500 point score.

I had this terrible performance with a GeForce2 too. Don't know which item fixed it, but it was one of these:

(BIOS 1003a)

Byte Merge: off
AGB Aparture size: NOT 256 (presently at 64, working great).

I use AGP drivers 4.04, no problems there.

I also fixed freezing problems by enabling

o Memory data drive ext.
o SDRAM Com. Drive ext.

Good luck.

[CellusD]

I appreciate all the responses to my inquiry. I ended up dumping a drive and installing WinMe from scratch. I used the 4in1 4.28 drivers. I didn't have any problems with all the harddrives, fortunately. The printer seemed to degrade the performance of my video card until I changed the DMA address for the ECP from 3 to 1. I am still having a problem when the system turns off the harddrives and monitor, it won't start back up unless I reboot (frustrating). I have the sblive platinum 5.1 and resolved it's conflicts by updating the playcenter software from the http://www.sblive.com website. I use the a7v133 board by the way. I think I'll try some of those drivers you guy's pionted me to....

[RJ]

Check your Vcache setting in your system.ini file. Try these settings.

MinFileCache=51200
MaxFileCache=56320

[CellusD]

Changing the vcache seems to have helped. That was a good suggestion, thanks. I have a 1200 t-bird and have seemed to correct all my problems so far. I'm going to see how much this chip can overclock now, I'll post my results. By the way, it seems that the detonator 3 756 drivers gave me the best results on the benchmarking tests on 3dmark2000. My results as follows...
D3 6.48 - 5489
D3 6.50 - 5466
D3 7.56 - 5789
D3 1080 - 5376

[MR RAYMOND HEAD]

Thanks for the advice CellusD,
I Hope my advice may have helped you as well.
You know thats what i like about this forum,
The way we help each other get the best from our systems.

No lie my computer has got alot more stable and faster since i took peoples advice from this site and im still learning more every other day

Lets hope it stays open for a long long time

[INTRUDER]

Hey Trym can tell me how to change the agp aperture size on an A7V133 with the 1004 bios, I can't seam to find its setting.

Thanx
INTRUDER

[RJ]

Now Intruder, you could have asked me that. Go to the Advanced screen/Chipset configuration and you'll see that you can scroll down on this page. You'll find your setting there.

[INTRUDER]

Hellwalker is that you, ya don't look quite the same here as over there

Thanx RJ
INTRUDER

[INTRUDER]

Cool RJ itwas set at 32mb so I uped it to 64mb, because I have a Radeon 64DDr and then ran the 3D Mark Benchmark default settings test and I'm up 9 points

Thanx Again
INTRUDER

AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz 266mhz T-Bird
Asus A7V133 / 1004 bios
768mb PC133 CAS2 @143mhz
ATI Radeon 64ddr vivo @4X Mode
Maxtor 40gig ATA100
SB Live Platinum 5.1
4x/8x Pioneer DVR-AO3 DVD-R
3Com 3XP Nic Card
Klipsch Pro Media V.2-400
34inch PrincetonAR3.2T Monitor
Modded Madcatz Panther XL Controller
Kensington Expert Mouse Pro
300watt PS
Win98SE
3D Mark 2000 Benchmark 8179

[RJ]

Yeah Intruder, It's me. I'm trying to keep a low profile here. LOL. Anyway, you should probably try that at 128. Usually recommended half system memory. Good luck.

[INTRUDER]

I'm going out tomarrow and buy a 400 watt PS, I want more more more hehe. Thanx RJ will do.

INTRUDER