First post, by Dirk Daring
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Hello, first post! Though I am a long time binge watcher of Philscomputerlab!
I'd really like some help with a problem that I've been trying to wrap my head around for years with no luck, and have more or less just tolerated.
In my Win98 retro gaming rig, I cannot for the life of me get AGP2X enabled and I have no idea why!
It's cutting my performance in half and is really annoying!
My system specs are as follows
CPU: AMD K6-2 CXT 266(overclocked to 380Mhz on a 95Mhz bus)
Mobo: Gigabyte 5SG100 rev 2.2 on the latest BIOS(SIS 5591/5595 chipset, the board is "described" as "Super Socket 7", But I suspect it's not fully compliant)
RAM: 128MB, 1 stick PC133 Micron RAM
Video card: Matrox Millenium G400 32MB AGP(not dual head)
Sound card: ISA ESS1868 based
OS: Windows 98 SE
This is the first machine I built from the ground up, I built it around 1998/1999, ended up blowing the original non-cxt core K6-2 early on because of a bad overclock, it started out with an Intel I740 graphics card, swapped that for an ATI Rage 128 later on because the I740 wasn't stable..... settled on a G400 for better performance.
I can't remember for the life of me if the old cards presented me with this same issue, but for as long as I can remember, I was never able to enable AGP2x on this Matrox card...... I've tried many drivers to no avail, I've tried Driver Cleaner 3.3 to make sure I have no old drivers gumming up the works, I've flashed my mobo BIOS on several occasions to different versions..... I just can't seem to get it enabled. PCIList, Powerstrip, and Matrox utilities all tell me that both my motherboard and my video card are capable of AGP 2X, but show it as disabled, and whenever I tick "AGP 2X enabled" it doesn't do anything.
thanks..... I'd really like some help with this, if anyone has any suggestions how I might get AGP 2X working, I'd highly appreciate it!