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AGP settings in Compaq Bios?
Compaq Presarios have a very limited BIOS. You may want to look into
utilities that allow you to configure the card, rather than the BIOS. Also, if his AGP slot is faster (8x vs 4x for example) that would make a huge difference. Lastly, have you shut down a lot of the background programs? Presarios are notorious for running 8,384 background programs. Tom "Evan Platt" wrote in message ... Hello all.. I have a Compaq Presario 5600Z & Nvidia 5700 video card. I recently flashed the bios on the motherboard to I believe 3.10. There's no AGP options in the bios for enabling advanced AGP video features. I have the same basica specs as a coworker (same video card, same processor & memory, etc). Yet his games play much faster - as a matter of fact, on 3dmark 2003, he scores MUCH higher than me. I believe I was 2000 or so, he was almost twice that. Is there a way to tweak the AGP settings on the Compaqs? Thanks. Evan |
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With limited BIOS settings, the best you can do is use some 3rd party programs
to tweak the AGP card... Ben Myers On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:02:45 -0700, Evan Platt wrote: Hello all.. I have a Compaq Presario 5600Z & Nvidia 5700 video card. I recently flashed the bios on the motherboard to I believe 3.10. There's no AGP options in the bios for enabling advanced AGP video features. I have the same basica specs as a coworker (same video card, same processor & memory, etc). Yet his games play much faster - as a matter of fact, on 3dmark 2003, he scores MUCH higher than me. I believe I was 2000 or so, he was almost twice that. Is there a way to tweak the AGP settings on the Compaqs? Thanks. Evan |
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+nvidia +tweak +utility
"Evan Platt" wrote in message ... On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:19:57 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote: Compaq Presarios have a very limited BIOS. You may want to look into utilities that allow you to configure the card, rather than the BIOS. Also, if his AGP slot is faster (8x vs 4x for example) that would make a huge difference. Lastly, have you shut down a lot of the background programs? Presarios are notorious for running 8,384 background programs. I've got a pretty clean setup, a few necessary programs. Any app you can suggest? I'd google for one, but not sure what I'm googling *for*. I tried 'configure AGP card windows xp' but don't think I'm finding what I should. Thanks. Evan |
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