kiteless123

I was one of the unlucky ones that got suckered into buying a FIC AT31 mobo. I decided to buy a Radeon 9200 card instead of using on board grafix (which is just horrible...how do I disable it completely?) Anyway I installed the new card and I can't get AGP Texture Acceleration to work according to DirectX (shaded grey, not available) I really don't want to do another clean install, I was hoping someone out there who knows about a Phoenix 6.00 CMOS knows how to set it up so I can get this fixed.

One more thing...I emailed FIC for support about this, here's their response:

>This card has not been approved for this board. Thus we are unsure of
>it's stability.

That's it?! What do they pay these ppl for!?! This sounds like a total b.s. response to me...is it? I'm hoping to get a friendlier response here.

FIC AT31 Mobo
AMD Athlon XP 1900
Phoenix Award 6.00 CMOS
512 MB PC2700 RAM
DirectX 9.0b
Omega Catalyst 4.2 video driver
Ikea Cup Holder


Thanks in advance

Judas

...you should be able to see an option in the bios to disable onboard video.. and set the video boot to AGP... check for bios updates..

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The_Neon_Cowboy

ftp://ftp.fic.com.tw/motherboard/bio...at31_pcb13.zip

there is the latest bios

Model AT31
PCB 1.3
BIOS Maker AWARD
Version TBA42
Released 2002/8/8
Flash flash818.exe
Fixes
1. Support PW LED on V1.4 motherboard.
2. Fill SSID,SVID on USB,IDE and ACPI device.
3. Enable AGP fast write.
4. Correct SYNC mode configurations.


Notes
Status release

if it was an award bios i could of been a better help...

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kiteless123

Thanks guys...As it turned out this BIOS is completely outdated, no options for the AGP slot. Horrible tech support from FIC, horrible mobo. I'll just have to get a new mobo, one that is NOT FIC.

Cheers

Dyre Straits

Is there no option within the BIOS to set it to boot first to AGP?

And there really should be an option somewhere to Disable the Onboard Video... or Integrated Video....something of that nature.

In many cases where I've installed a separate video card to a system like this, I've had to also Disable the onboard Display Adapter from within the Windows Device Manager. Otherwise, if you try to Remove it, it keeps trying to reinstall it. That 'might' be your tactic here. Disable it in the Device Manager and then let Windows try to detect your installed card.

Good luck!

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Judas

....check jumpers to... ( the online manual should/might say something)

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