AGP Aperture

[MrCoffee]

Is there any way I can increase the size of my AGP aperture? its currently 56MB but I'd like to increase it to 128MB.

I've had a good look in my CMOS and there is'nt a setting, the BIOS is flashed up to date.

Running XP home SP2


AMD Athlon XP, 2100 MHz (10.5 x 200) 3000+

Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 v2.0 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)

1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)

BIOS Type Award Modular (12/23/04)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (128 MB)

 

[Leyroy_J]

The only thing i can think of is if its got onboard graphics aswell as your agp card, try and disable the onboard in the Bios.
You may want to have a butchers around for a hacked BIOS aswell.

 

[Trotter]

Download your mobo manual and check through it to see exactly where the option is.

 

[MrCoffee]

Got the manual in front of me, doesnt seem to be an option I guess the aperature size is something that needs to be set in BIOS? No way top do it from Windows?

 

[Trotter]

It is in your BIOS. Probably under "Advanced" something or other.

Set the aperture to the same as the memory on your graphics card, and reduce the memory for your onboard to zero.

 

[Mr. Switch]

You might not have the option to change it. My last Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-K8NS) didn't have an option to change the aperture. It wasn't a very good motherboard. didn't give the user hardly any options at all, and it died on me 3 months after i bought it.