Hello again everybody!

I just upgraded recently from a socket A, nForce2-based motherboard to a dual-core system with a Via K8T800 chipset. I transferred my GeForce 7800 GS video card over to the new system and, I swear, it worked better in the five-year-old system!

A new thing in the dual-core board is the "AGP driving force" setting in the BIOS.
With it set to 'Auto', the setting defaults to 'DA' and performance sucks. If I change it to 'Manual' and adjust the setting to 'EA', performance improves greatly. But the performance improvement disappears after a reboot.

Does anyone have some experience with this setting? It would sure help to know the proper setting to get the most out of my videocard.

As a back-up plan, I'm bidding on an nForce3-based motherboard on eBay.

Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.