Intel AGP GART drivers...

[XavierHyde]

I just bought an nVidia GeForce FX 5900 graphics card (by ASUS), and figured I'll install what ASUS recommends. That includes an AGP GART driver. Now, I'm really cautious about third-party drivers, so I don't trust ASUS to supply the correct driver for my chipset (i850), even less so as the install disc must be almost a year old (has 40.xx series Detonators on it). I can't find an AGP GART driver on Intel.com, but some hints there tells me it might not be a driver at all, but just a feature of Windows XP that needs the Intel Chipset INF Utility in order to activate.

So, what's the deal here? Is there a real driver (and where can it be found on the web) or do I just need to run the INF Utility before installing ASUS Forceware drivers?

[paulladle]

The AGP GART driver is part on the MOBO (i850) chipset drivers so assuming they're already installed you have it.

[Jonny_C]

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&...2gart+driver%22

[jefexp]

sounds like you have the same setup as me Asus 5900 and i850 chipset. I would love to know what the GART driver is too, don't know, and have not tried. I actually have an Asus P4T533-C mobo, but never installed the GART either, since, like you say, the CD is way old.

[Radium]

A table that maps a range of contiguous memory addresses, which are visible to the graphics processing unit (GPU), to a set of (possibly discontiguous) pages in system memory. The table gives the GPU rapid access to textures, vertex buffers, and other graphics memory resources that are stored in system memory

From Windows Hardware and Driver Central (WHDC)

[jefexp]

Sorry, but what does that mean? Should I fined the latest Asus GART driver and load it, or use the Intel Application Accelerator and Intel INF Chipset apps?

[Jonny_C]

you are slighty repeating yourself.

[jefexp]

you are slighty repeating yourself.

Don't know where I repeated myself....but thanks...

[XavierHyde]

The AGP GART driver is part on the MOBO (i850) chipset drivers so assuming they're already installed you have it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are no actual drivers for the i850 (or any other Intel chipset), just a bunch of INF files that supposedly make Windows recognize the chipset in a more complete way. Then there's Intel Application Accellerator which seems to just have something to do with the IDE interfaces and not the AGP.

Or am I missing something here? Assuming I have installed both INF Utility and IAA, do I already have the latest GART "driver"?

[Bolt]

If I understanded it correctly the Intel inf "driver" tell the Operating System what GART driver to use or supply it, if the chipset is too new to already have it's drivers enbedded in the OS.

And ther is a good possibility that the driver is the same for multiple if not all of Intel chipsets since it only refer to memory addresses.

[Amit Bapat]

Dont worry much, install the latest chipset drivers from Intel and IAA if u need to check ur IDE specs and then installl the latest drivers for ur card from ASUS. Should n't be an issue.