Re: ATi Radeon 9700 AE2 Stepping AGP 8x Bug
I FIXED THE PROBLEM!!! I've done everthing you can imagine to fix my BSOD and agp lockups including changing video cards, reinstalling windows, reformating, benchmarks, quick fixes and I've finally found the problem that I believe is plaguing a wealth of computer gamers who have built their own machines or who have had unoptimized systems from manufacturer: RAM TIMING ISSUES!!! After a month of sleepless nights and an incredible amount of research I determined that my SOYO P4x400 mobo was not properly determining the RAM timing in my system bios. After searching pages for optimized ram timing in the bios, i plugged in some new numbers and my computer finally became the beastly machine I wanted it to be. The reason AGP cards cause errors in unoptimized RAM is becuase they right directly to the system memory. If any of the timing options are off by a little, the video card might try to overwrite a section of memory containging windows information, therefore creating a General protection fault of a BSOD. So go find the right optimized ram options and fix your broken computers
SOYO P4X400 Ultra Platinum Edition
Cmedia 8738
1 Ghz Ultra PC3200 DDR 400
3.06 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
Pny Verto Nvidia 5900 XT
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