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serialkilr
06-20-2006, 07:12 AM
hi recently i bought a Asrock K8nf4g-SATA 2 Socket 754 Motherboard, AMD 64-bit 2800+ Sempron CPU, 512MB DDR 400 Memory, onboard 128MB nVidia Graphics gforce6100 the graphics is meant to run as agp but only registers as pci i have the latest graphics drivers an have updated the bios i have also installed all the drivers on the disk i got with it does any 1 please have any ideas.. heres the specs page http://www.asrock.com/product/K8NF4G-SATA2.htm

ski
06-20-2006, 09:44 AM
Are you having any problems with the graphics?

serialkilr
06-21-2006, 08:33 PM
sometimes the simplest games lag an the frame rates go slower , my m8 said it might be cause the graphics card is running under the wrong type of hardware

jlreich
06-21-2006, 09:09 PM
That's PCIe x16 mobo. There is no AGP to it, so that's not the problem.

Look for a setting in the BIOS to change how much system ram the onboard video can use. It's probably under advanced chipset properties or similar. Try changing it to 128MB if it is not already.

Be aware this will take away from the system ram, so it's a give and take situation. You may have to play around with how much you allocate to the video to find the best medium. Or upgrade to 1GB ram so it's not as much of a problem. Or even better get a dedicated video card as onboard video is not much good for anything more than running office programs.

Also what games specifically are you trying to play?