[ProDriveTom]

I was wondering if anyone here would be so kind as to tell me what I should be setting my bios to.

The vid card is a sapphire x1950pro 512MB.

Available settings in the bios are,
AGP aperture size
agp 3.0 speed
agp fastwrite
agp sideband address
agp voltage


I'm also having a problem that my or may not be related to those settings. I have two monitors set up right now, 22" wide samsung as my main and a 19"4:3 samsung as a secondary.
Every now and then on or the other monitor will blink/flicker once. It doesn't seem to matter what im doing, (gaming, watching vids, surfing the web) and it doesn't happen on both monitors at the same time. Its either one or the other. Its also very infrequent. I get maybe one flicker every hour or 2.
Anybody have any ideas?

[ProDriveTom]

Common guys help a brother out. Im fairly certain you guys ran agp at one point

[JackNSally]

AGP aperture size= 1/4 of your ram or 256. Bench with both, use the setting that is better.
agp 3.0 speed= In MHz? 66. In Xx speed? 8x.
agp fastwrite= Enabled unless it causes problems.
agp sideband address= Not sure. Leave it at default?
agp voltage= Default unless your overclocking the card, then bump +.1 or +.2 or just max it out and go nuts

[ProDriveTom]

Originally Posted by JackNSally

AGP aperture size= 1/4 of your ram or 256. Bench with both, use the setting that is better.
agp 3.0 speed= In MHz? 66. In Xx speed? 8x.
agp fastwrite= Enabled unless it causes problems.
agp sideband address= Not sure. Leave it at default?
agp voltage= Default unless your overclocking the card, then bump +.1 or +.2 or just max it out and go nuts

Thanks. I have the aperture set at 512 right now so i will give those settings a try and see what happens.

[bchur83]

Leave the AGP voltage at 1.5v. It will not make your card OC any better.

[zaphod6502]

Originally Posted by ProDriveTom

I'm also having a problem that my or may not be related to those settings. I have two monitors set up right now, 22" wide samsung as my main and a 19"4:3 samsung as a secondary.
Every now and then on or the other monitor will blink/flicker once. It doesn't seem to matter what im doing, (gaming, watching vids, surfing the web) and it doesn't happen on both monitors at the same time. Its either one or the other. Its also very infrequent. I get maybe one flicker every hour or 2.
Anybody have any ideas?

No ideas but I am having an identical problem to what you describe. My system specs are listed below in my sig. Some have suggested it is related to running two monitors off this card. When I get a chance I will remove either of the monitors and see if the problem still occurs.

[ProDriveTom]

Originally Posted by zaphod6502

No ideas but I am having an identical problem to what you describe. My system specs are listed below in my sig. Some have suggested it is related to running two monitors off this card. When I get a chance I will remove either of the monitors and see if the problem still occurs.

Ive been paying attention to the flickers since i made this thread and it only seems to be happening on the secondary monitor and not my main. I could've sworn it flickered once on my main when i was watching a show before but that might have just been what i was watching. .

Hopefully this is something that can be fixed as i don't want to go back to a single screen.