Messages in this thread | | | From | "Gregor Essers" <> | Subject | Re: Via KT400 and AGP 8x Support | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:19:58 +0200 |
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Hi i will look into that with the bridges, i hope that Hercules is so that they give me the spec´s (Plan of the Card) with the Jupers/Bridges for AGP 2.0.
The minus on Performace is not great, in my eyes.
It´s very SAD that Ati and Nvidia will not give the Specs or an Sourcecode of the Drivers :/.
Regards
Gregor Essers
----- Original Message ----- From: "I Am Falling I Am Fading" <skuld@anime.net> To: "John Bradford" <john@grabjohn.com> Cc: <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>; <gregor.essers@web.de>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Via KT400 and AGP 8x Support
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, John Bradford wrote: > > > > The only other solution is to kick your card down into AGP 2.0 mode, which > > > most BIOSes do not allow you to do in software. Instead what you have to > > > do is cut/unsolder traces on your video card for the pins used for AGP 3.0 > > > detection. This is a near-permanent and horrible solution but it does get > > > everything working. :-/ > > > > Insulating tape on certain pins works on ISA cards, but whether it would be > > practical on the smaller pins of an AGP card, I'm not sure. > > Tried it already... The pins are too small to get adequate purchase for > the tape -- the friction just causes it to slide around in the slot and > gets goo around. > > Superglue might be a better solution.... > > ...but I think the solder method is better. > > On the Radeon 9700 Pro at least there are a couple jumpers on the > appropriate pins, bridged by 0-ohm surface mount resistors (i.e. simple > conductors). What you can do is just unsolder the bridges and it becomes > an AGP 2.0 card... If you have a very steady hand you can also resolder > them to get your AGP 3.0 back. > > Still this is not a fun solution as you can potentially cook your card > (make sure to use a 15 watt iron, nothing higher). > > ----- > James Sellman -- ISU CoE-CS/ISLUG Linux Lab Admin |"Lum, did you just see > ----------------------------------------------------| a hentai rabbit flying > skuld@inconnu.isu.edu | // A4000/604e/60 128M| through the air?" > skuld@anime.net | \X/ A500/20 3M | - Miyake Shinobu > >
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