Date: September 21, 2000
Technical Note: TN17 revision 1
CPG Technical Marketing
Microsoft Windows® 2000 Patch for AGP Applications on AMD Athlon™
and AMD Duron™ Processors
Description: An issue has been identified that could result in the corruption
of video data shared between AGP graphics adapters and
AMD Athlon™ or AMD Duron™ processors when running
Microsoft Windows® 2000. This issue is independent of system
chipset and has been observed when running Ziff-Davis 3D
Winbench™ 2000 and Mad Onion 3DMark™ 2000 in
benchmar king mode.
Solution: AMD and Microsoft have worked together to identify a patch
that in volves adding a ke y to the registry. To add the ke y run the
registry key installation file found at http://www.amd.com/products/
cpg/athlon-duron/amd_win2k_patch.html or add the registry key as
detailed in Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q270715. AMD
r ecommends that AMD Athlon and AMD Duron processor user s
with AGP graphics adapters running Windows 2000 install this
patch.
Trademarks—AMD, the AMD logo, AMD Athlon, AMD Duron, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
