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AGP Off Problem

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Swat

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Well, my girlfriend has an HP Pavilion a320n which has an onboard video card. I curently installed a 9700 pro to give her a little more boost in her games. I was able to rid the old nvidia drivers no problem and everything runs pretty well. The problem is that in SmartGart it says the AGP is off and when she starts to play her video games it gives the same message but still allows her to run these games. I knew that I should download the chipset drivers and enable AGP in the CMOS setup which I have. When I go to install the chipset drivers to enable AGP it gives me the message " The original drivers are stored in the C:\HP\Drivers\Chipset folder. Pleast install the driver through the Device Manager."

The problem is that in the Device Manager I have no clue where I am supposed to be installing these drivers at, I don't know if I'm looking for the wrong item or what, but I would like to get the AGP enabled because I'm sure there is a huge performance hit with it being off. Thanks for taking the time in replying, I'm at a stand still as far as what to do from here.

- swat
 
I'm not sure what HP's problem is but that's an nForce2 motherboard so you should be able to skip HP's stuff and use NVIDIAs unified drivers which you can get here.
 
HP, Compact, Cow Pasture, are just some of propriatory systems. These systems have a small area in the boot sector that mostly prohibit anyone from changing anything in the system. At times this can be circumvented for a part, but you will probably get some sort of message on the screen no matter what you do. Definately you do need to download the chipset drivers and install them.

Just a story............About a year ago, a friend of my wife, asked me if I would install a 250gb hard drive in his new HP computer.
I told him that I would try, he refused to allow me to bring the computer to our shop.
He told me that I would have to do this in his home. I wrestled with this guy for 2 days, with him looking over my sholder.

The info written into the boot sector refused to allow the 250gb hd and add the hd to the 80gb that he already had.

The guy finally made me frustrated enough that I told him to take it to the HP dealer he purchased it from and get the boot sector rewritten which would allow the extra hard drive to be added.

With my attempting to add the bigger hd, the boot sector completely destroyed the installation of 'XP Pro.
He had to pay $80.00 for the restore disks to install the OS back like HP had written it.
 
UncleMacro said:
I'm not sure what HP's problem is but that's an nForce2 motherboard so you should be able to skip HP's stuff and use NVIDIAs unified drivers which you can get here.
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Thanks a ton that worked, when I would go to HP's site they were sending me drivers for a VIA chipset. The second I installed those on her computer BAM! It had the AGP enabled, so thanks thanks and some more thanks :)
 
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