nevermind. I found it myself. You have to use the 1010 bios version in order to be able to set AGP to 4x.
Best regards, Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Golumbovici" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:52 PM Subject: [expert] ASUS A7V8X KT400 AGP3.0 bios switch > Hi, > > Anyone know how I can switch my motherboard to work in 4x mode (so to fall > back to AGP 2.0)? > > My bios (latest one) seems to lock itself to AGP 3.0 as soon as I put my AGP > 3.0 compliant graphics card in it (Radeon 9700 Pro). :( That makes it that I > cannot use the official drivers as AGP 3.0 support is required and current > kernel doesn't. :( > > I searched the entire net for how to do this (or which bios should I flash > to solve the problem) but no luck. I just found somewhere that some older > bioses allow to, and the newer one requires some funky secret key > combination to allow you to fallback to AGP 2.0, but couldn't actually find > the right combination. > > Please help. I am pretty desperate. I cannot play anything on it as long as > I have the vesa drivers (only ones which would work) from X. :( > > Best regards, > Adrian > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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