it's in my bios of my ASUS A7V333-R Rev.1.02 I use Bios 1017 the final WHQL Bios, there is also a 1018 beta bios, but that was a use at own risk bios, so I left that one aside.

The AGP Performance control can be set to manual and auto.=, it's a setting which finds it's self under the AGP Fast Writes tab. with AGP performance control you can OC the AGP bus stand alone, anyways that is what I think it does.

yeah well nice one Max-R good to see you used the same methods as I did

Thanx for your help to by creating idea's to solve mine, it's running as stable as a rock now, and I'm preparing it for a LAN party, the ultimate test

hmm well quite logic that your Chipset has more compabillity as my much older VIA Apollo KT333 chipset , My Motherboard the ASUS A7V333-R Rev.1.02 has it's latest bios aka 1017, there was some babbles about a 1.18 beta 11 bios, but that was a use at own rick bios, so that are things I'd rather evade, some boards didn't even boot witht hat bios, they just showed a black screen ...

So resolving that problem wasn't possible, oh well, not to fear this system shall be replaced by a nice MSI MS-9130 K8T Master2 FAR7 motherboard and 2 Opteron 250 CPU's 4x 512MB PC3200 ECC REG Low Latency ram from Corsair XMS Platinum soon

withthis board, I can also make use of dual core Opteron CPU';s, and I want to have a low cost AGP sollution, allready have a nice PCI-Express setup

yeah it sure does, the system is rocksolid and also no problems when switching from the Radeon X800 XT PE AGP to the Voodoo5 5500 PCI and back also, and no more funny look'n boot ups from a cold startup too.

thax to your grave idea, My system with the VIA Apollo KT333 is a solid as a house now, thanx to your brightfull thinking 8)

also install Flight Simulator 2004 , finally made it ready for some long haul flights, real time ofcourse