Agp

[urs]

i have few question regarding AGP

1)is the AGP slot brown in color?
2)if it is brown in color then i dont have AGP slot so does this mean that i have an onboard AGP
3)if it is an onboard AGP how do i find how much MB it is? and can i upgrade and onboard AGP

 

[exocet]

Hello there. To answer your questions:

1) Typically the AGP slot is brown in color, but not in all cases. Gigabyte boards for instance have AGP slots that are day-glo green color. So color doesn't tell you much in some cases.

2) The AGP slot is positioned closer to the center of the board, farther away from the edge then the PCI slots (beige or white in color typically). The AGP slot is slightly shorter in length than the PCI slot, and positioned about in inch farther towards the center of the board from the edge than the PCI slot. You know you have onboard video (video thats integrated into the board) by looking at your motherboard along the side where the ports are. It will be blue in color, and have 15 female pins (or holes rather--3 rows with 5 holes each).

3) Onboard video actually shares your system's RAM--this is usually referred to as the AGP aperture. Suppose you have 256 megs of system memory for example, and you set the AGP aperture to 32 megs. This will make your available system memory to be 224 megs, because you just reserved 32 megs for video memory. Onboard video cannot really be upgraded--the best you can do is to keep it updated using the latest video driver for your motherboard, or purchase a video card that will be compatible with your motherboard.

I hope this answers your questions.

 

[urs]

how can i make it share with my RAM
i mean where do i have to make these settings
i have 192MB ram

 

[urs]

hello
any one who can help me making AGP aperture

 

[Rockn]

Exocet.....the onboard memory does not always share the system memory. Some MB manufacturers do this and others don't. URS....you need to look in your manual for the BIOS settings to see if this situation actually exists. You haven't given anyone the make or model of your motherboard so making that determination is pretty much impossible.

 

[urs]

Operating System : Windows 98 SE

System Model : Asset Tag: 0123ABC

Processor a : 500 megahertz Intel Pentium III
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Main Circuit Board
Board: ZIDA Instant810C 1.0
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 62710 05/20/99

i got this information Belarc software i hope this is fine for u
or u want to know something else

 

[exocet]

Originally posted by Rockn:
Exocet.....the onboard memory does not always share the system memory. Some MB manufacturers do this and others don't. URS....you need to look in your manual for the BIOS settings to see if this situation actually exists. You haven't given anyone the make or model of your motherboard so making that determination is pretty much impossible.

I stand corrected then. Obviously i've been around the ones that do share system memory =)

 

[urs]

i was just going through website regarding AGP aperture
all these sites mention some settings under BIOS
so i just had look at my BIOS
i came across "Reserved Memory Size" under PCI/PnP Setup
its setting is disabled and it has option 16K,32K and 64K
is this is the right place to make changes for AGP apeure