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April 3rd 04, 03:37 AM
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Looking for advice on MSI K7T266-Pro2 rev. 2 and Matrox G550
I have an MSI K7T266-Pro2 rev. 2 motherboard and a Matrox G550 video
card stably running Windows NT 4.0 and Debian Linux 3.0. In the past, I tried upgrading (clean install actually) to Windows XP, but gave up, as I kept getting video driver errors "infinite loop in MGA64.DLL" or some such. Scouring Usenet archives and amdforums, it looks like the problem may have been AGP Fast Writes being turned on. Before I try it again, I'd appreciate input from anyone who has this working successfully. I've attached a listing of my current BIOS settings. Thanks very much in advance for your assistance, PaulG Advanced CMOS Features ---------------------- Quick Boot...................Enabled Full Screen Logo Show........Disabled 1st Boot Device..............CDROM 2nd Boot Device..............IDE-0 3rd Boot Device..............Disabled Try Other Boot Devices.......No S.M.A.R.T. for Hard Disks....Disabled BootUp Num Lock..............On Floppy Drive Swap............Disabled Floppy Drive Seek............Off Primary Display..............VGA/EGA Password Check...............Setup Boot to OS/2.................No Internal Cache...............Writeable System BIOS Cacheable........Disabled C000,32k Shadow..............Disabled APIC Function................Enabled MPS Table Version............1.4 ========================================== Advanced Chipset Features ------------------------- Configure SDRAM Timing by....SPD SDRAM Frequency..............SPD CAS Latency..................2.5 Row Precharge................3T RAS Pulse Width..............6T RAS to CAS Delay.............3T Bank Interleave..............Disabled Burst Length.................4QW SDRAM 1T Command.............Disabled Fast Command.................Disabled AGP Mode.....................Auto AGP Comp Driving.............Auto Manual AGP Comp Driving......CB AGP Fast Write...............Disabled AGP Aperture Size............64Mb AGP Master 1 W/S Write.......Disabled AGP Master 1 W/S Read........Disabled Write to Read Delay..........Enabled Read to Write Delay..........2 AGP Read Synchronization.....Disabled PCI Delay Transaction........Enabled ========================================== IPCA Function................Yes AXPI Standby State...........S1/POS Power Management/APM.........Enabled ========================================== Plug and Play Aware OS.......No Clear NVRAM..................No PCI Latency Timer............96 PCI IDE BusMaster............Enabled ========================================== Spread Spectrum..............+/- 0.25 % -- Pursuant to US Code Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part I, Section 227, unsolicited commercial e-mail received at this address is subject to a US$500 download and archival fee. By e-mailing such, you agree to these terms. 
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April 6th 04, 12:33 PM
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Why is your "Plug and Play Aware OS" set to No? For Windows XP it should be
set to Yes. "Paul Gelinas" wrote in message ... I have an MSI K7T266-Pro2 rev. 2 motherboard and a Matrox G550 video card stably running Windows NT 4.0 and Debian Linux 3.0. In the past, I tried upgrading (clean install actually) to Windows XP, but gave up, as I kept getting video driver errors "infinite loop in MGA64.DLL" or some such. Scouring Usenet archives and amdforums, it looks like the problem may have been AGP Fast Writes being turned on. Before I try it again, I'd appreciate input from anyone who has this working successfully. I've attached a listing of my current BIOS settings. Thanks very much in advance for your assistance, PaulG Advanced CMOS Features ---------------------- Quick Boot...................Enabled Full Screen Logo Show........Disabled 1st Boot Device..............CDROM 2nd Boot Device..............IDE-0 3rd Boot Device..............Disabled Try Other Boot Devices.......No S.M.A.R.T. for Hard Disks....Disabled BootUp Num Lock..............On Floppy Drive Swap............Disabled Floppy Drive Seek............Off Primary Display..............VGA/EGA Password Check...............Setup Boot to OS/2.................No Internal Cache...............Writeable System BIOS Cacheable........Disabled C000,32k Shadow..............Disabled APIC Function................Enabled MPS Table Version............1.4 ========================================== Advanced Chipset Features ------------------------- Configure SDRAM Timing by....SPD SDRAM Frequency..............SPD CAS Latency..................2.5 Row Precharge................3T RAS Pulse Width..............6T RAS to CAS Delay.............3T Bank Interleave..............Disabled Burst Length.................4QW SDRAM 1T Command.............Disabled Fast Command.................Disabled AGP Mode.....................Auto AGP Comp Driving.............Auto Manual AGP Comp Driving......CB AGP Fast Write...............Disabled AGP Aperture Size............64Mb AGP Master 1 W/S Write.......Disabled AGP Master 1 W/S Read........Disabled Write to Read Delay..........Enabled Read to Write Delay..........2 AGP Read Synchronization.....Disabled PCI Delay Transaction........Enabled ========================================== IPCA Function................Yes AXPI Standby State...........S1/POS Power Management/APM.........Enabled ========================================== Plug and Play Aware OS.......No Clear NVRAM..................No PCI Latency Timer............96 PCI IDE BusMaster............Enabled ========================================== Spread Spectrum..............+/- 0.25 % -- Pursuant to US Code Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part I, Section 227, unsolicited commercial e-mail received at this address is subject to a US$500 download and archival fee. By e-mailing such, you agree to these terms.
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April 6th 04, 01:44 PM
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surely the Primary Display should be set to AGP not VGA/EGA?
"Paul Gelinas" wrote in message ... I have an MSI K7T266-Pro2 rev. 2 motherboard and a Matrox G550 video card stably running Windows NT 4.0 and Debian Linux 3.0. In the past, I tried upgrading (clean install actually) to Windows XP, but gave up, as I kept getting video driver errors "infinite loop in MGA64.DLL" or some such. Scouring Usenet archives and amdforums, it looks like the problem may have been AGP Fast Writes being turned on. Before I try it again, I'd appreciate input from anyone who has this working successfully. I've attached a listing of my current BIOS settings. Thanks very much in advance for your assistance, PaulG Advanced CMOS Features ---------------------- Quick Boot...................Enabled Full Screen Logo Show........Disabled 1st Boot Device..............CDROM 2nd Boot Device..............IDE-0 3rd Boot Device..............Disabled Try Other Boot Devices.......No S.M.A.R.T. for Hard Disks....Disabled BootUp Num Lock..............On Floppy Drive Swap............Disabled Floppy Drive Seek............Off Primary Display..............VGA/EGA Password Check...............Setup Boot to OS/2.................No Internal Cache...............Writeable System BIOS Cacheable........Disabled C000,32k Shadow..............Disabled APIC Function................Enabled MPS Table Version............1.4 ========================================== Advanced Chipset Features ------------------------- Configure SDRAM Timing by....SPD SDRAM Frequency..............SPD CAS Latency..................2.5 Row Precharge................3T RAS Pulse Width..............6T RAS to CAS Delay.............3T Bank Interleave..............Disabled Burst Length.................4QW SDRAM 1T Command.............Disabled Fast Command.................Disabled AGP Mode.....................Auto AGP Comp Driving.............Auto Manual AGP Comp Driving......CB AGP Fast Write...............Disabled AGP Aperture Size............64Mb AGP Master 1 W/S Write.......Disabled AGP Master 1 W/S Read........Disabled Write to Read Delay..........Enabled Read to Write Delay..........2 AGP Read Synchronization.....Disabled PCI Delay Transaction........Enabled ========================================== IPCA Function................Yes AXPI Standby State...........S1/POS Power Management/APM.........Enabled ========================================== Plug and Play Aware OS.......No Clear NVRAM..................No PCI Latency Timer............96 PCI IDE BusMaster............Enabled ========================================== Spread Spectrum..............+/- 0.25 % -- Pursuant to US Code Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part I, Section 227, unsolicited commercial e-mail received at this address is subject to a US$500 download and archival fee. By e-mailing such, you agree to these terms.
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April 6th 04, 07:21 PM
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I think so too, but I'm still running NT 4.0, and wasn't going to change it until I was ready for the XP install. PaulG On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 11:33:15 GMT, "Homer J. Simpson" wrote: Why is your "Plug and Play Aware OS" set to No? For Windows XP it should be set to Yes. "Paul Gelinas" wrote in message .. . I have an MSI K7T266-Pro2 rev. 2 motherboard and a Matrox G550 video card stably running Windows NT 4.0 and Debian Linux 3.0. In the past, I tried upgrading (clean install actually) to Windows XP, but gave up, as I kept getting video driver errors "infinite loop in MGA64.DLL" or some such. Scouring Usenet archives and amdforums, it looks like the problem may have been AGP Fast Writes being turned on. Before I try it again, I'd appreciate input from anyone who has this working successfully. I've attached a listing of my current BIOS settings. Thanks very much in advance for your assistance, PaulG Advanced CMOS Features ---------------------- Quick Boot...................Enabled Full Screen Logo Show........Disabled 1st Boot Device..............CDROM 2nd Boot Device..............IDE-0 3rd Boot Device..............Disabled Try Other Boot Devices.......No S.M.A.R.T. for Hard Disks....Disabled BootUp Num Lock..............On Floppy Drive Swap............Disabled Floppy Drive Seek............Off Primary Display..............VGA/EGA Password Check...............Setup Boot to OS/2.................No Internal Cache...............Writeable System BIOS Cacheable........Disabled C000,32k Shadow..............Disabled APIC Function................Enabled MPS Table Version............1.4 ========================================== Advanced Chipset Features ------------------------- Configure SDRAM Timing by....SPD SDRAM Frequency..............SPD CAS Latency..................2.5 Row Precharge................3T RAS Pulse Width..............6T RAS to CAS Delay.............3T Bank Interleave..............Disabled Burst Length.................4QW SDRAM 1T Command.............Disabled Fast Command.................Disabled AGP Mode.....................Auto AGP Comp Driving.............Auto Manual AGP Comp Driving......CB AGP Fast Write...............Disabled AGP Aperture Size............64Mb AGP Master 1 W/S Write.......Disabled AGP Master 1 W/S Read........Disabled Write to Read Delay..........Enabled Read to Write Delay..........2 AGP Read Synchronization.....Disabled PCI Delay Transaction........Enabled ========================================== IPCA Function................Yes AXPI Standby State...........S1/POS Power Management/APM.........Enabled ========================================== Plug and Play Aware OS.......No Clear NVRAM..................No PCI Latency Timer............96 PCI IDE BusMaster............Enabled ========================================== Spread Spectrum..............+/- 0.25 % -- Pursuant to US Code Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part I, Section 227, unsolicited commercial e-mail received at this address is subject to a US$500 download and archival fee. By e-mailing such, you agree to these terms.
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April 6th 04, 07:51 PM
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Actually this confused me until I saw the option for 'Primary Graphics
Adapter' = 'AGP', which selects the card. 'Primary Display' only sets the default color/resolution. Now that I look at the listing below, that option is missing from my original posting. It should have been right after the 'PCI Latency Timer' option. Which begs another question: Any advantage to in/decreasing this setting? I often get popping from my SB PCI128, and I read somewhere that changing the delay might help, but I got conflicting answers as to which way to set it, and settings of 32/64/96 (64 was the default) have no noticable difference between them. PaulG On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:44:45 +0100, "rich" wrote: surely the Primary Display should be set to AGP not VGA/EGA? "Paul Gelinas" wrote in message .. . I have an MSI K7T266-Pro2 rev. 2 motherboard and a Matrox G550 video card stably running Windows NT 4.0 and Debian Linux 3.0. In the past, I tried upgrading (clean install actually) to Windows XP, but gave up, as I kept getting video driver errors "infinite loop in MGA64.DLL" or some such. Scouring Usenet archives and amdforums, it looks like the problem may have been AGP Fast Writes being turned on. Before I try it again, I'd appreciate input from anyone who has this working successfully. I've attached a listing of my current BIOS settings. Thanks very much in advance for your assistance, PaulG Advanced CMOS Features ---------------------- Quick Boot...................Enabled Full Screen Logo Show........Disabled 1st Boot Device..............CDROM 2nd Boot Device..............IDE-0 3rd Boot Device..............Disabled Try Other Boot Devices.......No S.M.A.R.T. for Hard Disks....Disabled BootUp Num Lock..............On Floppy Drive Swap............Disabled Floppy Drive Seek............Off Primary Display..............VGA/EGA Password Check...............Setup Boot to OS/2.................No Internal Cache...............Writeable System BIOS Cacheable........Disabled C000,32k Shadow..............Disabled APIC Function................Enabled MPS Table Version............1.4 ========================================== Advanced Chipset Features ------------------------- Configure SDRAM Timing by....SPD SDRAM Frequency..............SPD CAS Latency..................2.5 Row Precharge................3T RAS Pulse Width..............6T RAS to CAS Delay.............3T Bank Interleave..............Disabled Burst Length.................4QW SDRAM 1T Command.............Disabled Fast Command.................Disabled AGP Mode.....................Auto AGP Comp Driving.............Auto Manual AGP Comp Driving......CB AGP Fast Write...............Disabled AGP Aperture Size............64Mb AGP Master 1 W/S Write.......Disabled AGP Master 1 W/S Read........Disabled Write to Read Delay..........Enabled Read to Write Delay..........2 AGP Read Synchronization.....Disabled PCI Delay Transaction........Enabled ========================================== IPCA Function................Yes ACPI Standby State...........S1/POS Power Management/APM.........Enabled ========================================== Plug and Play Aware OS.......No Clear NVRAM..................No PCI Latency Timer............96 PCI IDE BusMaster............Enabled ========================================== Spread Spectrum..............+/- 0.25 % -- Pursuant to US Code Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part I, Section 227, unsolicited commercial e-mail received at this address is subject to a US$500 download and archival fee. By e-mailing such, you agree to these terms.
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