I believe you may have forgotten to install your motherboard chipset drivers.
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In that case, the next most likely culprits would be having 'AGP Fast Writes' enabled in BIOS Setup, or perhaps a faulty stick of RAM.
You could also try setting the AGP interface to AGP 4X instead of AGP 8X
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