HELP my 6831fx PCI link width stuck at x1, games stutter badly

Hi,

don't let the name fool you, I also have (and love) a 6831fx from Gateway!

The thing runs great, except I noticed subpar gaming FPS, so I checked CPUz and GPUz and both report my PCI link width as stuck at x1 (should be @ x16 as you all know).

What can I do to fix this?

I contacted gateway and asked for a BIOS update and they keep telling me there is no BIOS update.
The BIOS version I have is 94.26.00

I uninstalled and reinstalled video drivers and that didn't work. Should I uninstall any chipset drivers? and if so which ones?

I hope someone else has encountered this problem and knows how to fix it b/c it really stinks having a gaming laptop that has a PCI express link width at x1 with such an awesome video card!!!

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i think it defaults back to 1x when your not gaming .As for subpar gaming performance do you have your power profile set to high performance ? Is norton running in the background ? have you thought about just formatting and doing a fresh install . Those are just somethings to think about because beyond that its hard to say whats wrong . None of us and there is alot of us ever needed a bios update to fix the PCI express bandwith so i doubt thats the problem.

 

I know it does not go back up to x16 when gaming. Try opening up CPUz and go to the Mainboard tab.
Mine says Link Width x1, then Max Supported x16. Yours probably says x16, x16.
When I play 2142 i get around 33 FPS on low, medium, or all high settings, and my 3dMark06 score is a dismal 5,425 Marks. I have an x9000 CPU at 3.0GHz so my 3dMark06 should be close to 10,000.

I'm going to try to reinstall the Intel chipset drivers, but I don't know the proper way to do this without possibly damaging something?

I'd like to avoid doing a complete reinstall of the OS and everything else, as that takes hours and hours and is not a 100% guarantee either.

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Yeah. Mine does say x16 x16, however mine is a 6831, and they own yo puny foo's 60's.

 

mine says x1 x16 like i thought.

 

I also have this issue. Any ideas?

 

Is it plugged in? Some people's video cards get underclocked, maybe that 1x PCI link when their computer is not plugged in.

 

plugged in here, on high performance, mine says x1 x16

 

PCI-E 2.0 x16@x1 while idle here. Jumps to x16 the minute the GPU is used in 3D mode. Tested with rthdribl.

 

Ya i figured it would go back and forth from 1-16 according to what you were doing but whats strange is stealtharcher's is always on 16x for both so maybe i need to sand the core of my cpu down and that will fix my problem .

 

well if he disabled his powermizer it will stay x16

 

my powermizer is disabled Through the Nvidia control panel and in the registry and mine still says 1x 16 so i think his problems the OPs that is are something all together different.