AGP Aperture Size in BIOS

[ShredderTitan]

Ok, i don't know if this is the right place to post this, sorry, but i'm sure everyone here has heard of the AGP Aperture size.

Now i wanted to try and change mine by going onto the bios, but on my computer it doesn't seem to want to let me onto the bios.
On my computer, i'm supposed to press F2 at startup screen to get onto the bios, and i have done it many times, but once i have pressed this, (i've also tried escape etc.) the computer screen just stays black and doesn't change unless i restart the computer/reboot it.
Does it just take a long time to load, or is there something i am doing wrong, please help if possible!


it doesnt matter too much if no one knows, because i play bf2 fine and with high resolutionm etc, but this could help a bit so...

[BPCrusher01]

It should go into the bios almost instantly. What brand is your pc or did you build it yourself? What kind of video card do you have? Also try hitting delete to enter bios.

[ConscriptVirus]

it should usually tell u what to press when booting up. then restart and spam that key. u can also try the Del key or F1. (i use f1)

[Stormy{CAN}]

Also worth asking if your video card is AGP or not. Reason for asking is if it is a PCI-E card, even if you get into the bios and find that setting, it won't do anything.

P.S. Only reason for saying anything is I have seen this same question asked enough, and the person did have a PCI-E card.

Edit: Almost forgot, the only way to have the AGP Aperture setting in the bios and have a PCI-E card was if you had/have one of the Asrock motherboards that have both an AGP slot and a PCI-E slot.

[MeYHymN]

Do you even need to edit your aperture size? In short it's a means of using System ram for caching of video memory to lesson hard drive access. So if you've got a lot of system ram then it probably doesn't hurt. If you've got a large amount of ram on the video card there probably won't be much benefit. As with any BIOS setting, if you erroneously change things you can end up with crashes, hangs, or not booting entirely. There's also no real rule of thumb to setting that I've ever seen. Me, personally, I set it to approx. 1/2 of video card ram as long as it's LESS than 1/4 of my system ram.

[Webs961]

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