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[colin]

Hey All,

I'm curious to know who knows about configuring onboard graphics card via the bios, and in particular the VIA 4in1 setup.

Since installing links 2003 I have discovered that Direct 3D does not always work and after rebooting my machine it eventually does. So i installed all the latest drivers, etc. and this still did not solve the problem. So I resorted to playing with the bios settings like all good engineers should do.

And I then discovered lots of settings. I could change the AGP setting, the amount of shared memory and a few other things of which I know nothing about. But by playing with these setting its seems to have resolved my problem s with Direct 3D sometimes working/sometime not working.

I'm also curious will this help resolve the occasional freezing I get in GB-PVR when watching live-TV (which i do believe is not Sub's problem but my hardware configuration).

Anyway just curious to know if anyone here knows about these things and share some light on the subject,

Cheers,
Colin.

[glassvial]

Running the latest 4-in-1 drivers on a Soyo K7VME, no issues. However I'm running a PVR350 for the TV-Out. Sometimes livetv, or the recordings just go to a black screen, I just shutdown GB-PVR and start it back up and it's fine.

[colin]

The joy of so many variations in hardware. I think i'll just blame Microsoft, everyone else does! But more importantly I've figure out a way to be able to play Links which requires at most 1 reboot.

Cheers,
Colin.

[glassvial]

Yeah, wish I could help, there's not a lot of bios settings for the onboard video on this mobo. I went and picked up a cheap video card for it anyway because I wanted TV-Out (there was no TV-Out on the onboard video) and I just turned off the onboard video in the bios.

[colin]

I reckon its a driver issue with hibernation mode as I put my machine to sleep all the time. But of course is it a VIA driver issue or is it an issue with how windows is waking up all devices? It will do until i eventually buy a new graphics card,

cheers,
Colin.

[glassvial]

If it helps I also run/ran all the latest drivers off viaarena.com for my board too, onboard audio onboard video etc. The video drivers from them worked fine while I ran them. Replaced the card with a cheap NVidia card after reading much debate about the TV-Out on NV vs. ATI, it just came down to finding a cheap price on an NV card and going with it.