INTEL 865GBF and GeFORCE 5500 Problem

[PAPABEAR]

Hi!! The thing is that the video card is AGP 8X and when i run a diagnose it shows that the AGP slot is 4X. if anyone know if the motherboard can't run in 8X or if is some configuration problem.

P4 2.8Ghz 533Mhz
INTEL 865GBF
1GB RAM DDR
GeFORCE 5500 AGP 8X 256MB
SATA HDD

[Sourabh]

Your motherboard supports AGP 8x. It's just that you have the 4x option selected in the bios. It wouldn't be difficult to find that option.

[PAPABEAR]

can't find the option. the only thing found was "AGP APERTURE SIZE" to select from 4MB to 256MB

[Stalker]

try to download utilities like

nvhardpage
Rivatuner
powerstrip

u can mostly find them at guru3d.com. with them u can manually change ur agp settings i.e PCI mode, 1x, 2x, 4x or 8x.

using hardpage u can add a page(called AGP settings) in ur forceware driver control panel which will tweak ur AGP settings.

with Rivatuner or powerstrip u will find these options in the main control panel of the respective program.
i recommend rivatuner for this.
NOTE: AGP version 3.0 = AGP 8X
AGP version 2.0 = AGP 4X
865 does support AGP 8x.

[deathvirus_me]

What app. reported it to be AGP 4x ?? It could be reporting the 2d AGP rate ... ...

[PAPABEAR]

the app is fresh diagnose, but i'm a desperate one and already bought another board "ASUS P4S800D-X", still don't know if is running in 8X, but thanks a lot for the input.