[viskitas]

Hi, I used search but couldn't find related topics, so here goes:

I recently bought a GeCube Radeon 9550 GT AGP card and I have these problems with it:

1. no AGP recognition. In dxdiag it sees only direct draw and direct 3d. I have directX 9.0c.
games like NFS Most wanted and Black & White 2 crash, I can play only older Direct 3d games like Warcraft 3...
I have a Asrock K7VT4A PRO (socket A) mainboard, on their web site I saw that the AGP slot supports only (? ) 1.5 V (AGP 4X).
I'va updated my Bios to v1.5 cause I saw there was an AGP fine tunning option implemented, tried all high/low/auto voltage for AGP slot in Bios, but nothing changed.
reinstalled my system, nothing changed.
My Radeon 9550 has 4X(1.5V)/8X (0.8V) support and since the AGP slot only puts out 1.5V - there is the problem? But it says on Asrock site that the mobo can do AGP 8X card and anyway setting it up 4X doesn't work either.
I would like to know the cause of this problem, how can it be fixed, cause I can't really buy a new mainboard now and I would have to go back using the old G4 MX

2. Windows XP service pack 1 sees my card as Radeon 9600 Series. No big deal, but I'm just courios why.


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AMD Sempron 2200+
Asrock K7VT4A PRO
GeCube Radeon 9550 GT
512 MB PQI Ram
40 Gb OLD Maxtor HDD
-yeah it still works ^^-

[viskitas]

OK, solved the AGP recognition problem by getting Via hyperion drivers, updating XP and getting .Net frameworks, so that I can use the latest ati drivers.
Still got one puzzling problem: how come windows sees the card as Radeon 9600 series? I know 9550 is actually a 9600 chip with a different bios and some limitations, but this isn't normal right? Could I have a faulty chip? Normaly I wouldn't mind, but now the card works good in new games like NFS Most wanted and Fable, but has low performance in older games that I still play, like Quake 2.
I now have the latest Ati drivers...
On GeCube's site there is no Radeon 9550 GT mentioned, in fact if you take a closer look at the box pictures of their 9550 series, almost all say Radeon GT on the box, but the package contains different models. (these sell as Gecube Radeon 9550 GT here)
And another thing, Sisoft Sandra sees the card as 9600 XT !
A friend of mine bought the same type of card, or so we think but we can't be sure since the boxes are the same but the models may not be! he didn't had the AGP recognition problems possibly because he has a better ASUS motherboard, but his windows also displays a Radeon 9600 series...
Is there any way that we find out exactly what specific videocard model we have, any software that can be precise?
Mainly, I would like to know if we have reliable videocards, or how can we find out before is too late, so we can take them back and exchange them for lower performance but no headache Nvidia FX5500 cards.

Thank you very much