AGP card reported as being a PCI card??????

I have a Asrock K7S8X MOBO, and have been running an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
256mb card. It is an AGP card in the AGP slot. To cut a long story short I
found that it was being reported as being a pci card in the catalyst control
centre. I used smartgart, rebooted, pci. So I went into the bios, changed the
aperture setting from 64 to 256, and changed the setting from PCI to AGP.

Retested in Smartgart, back came the report, pci. So I removed the radeon
drivers, and downloaded omega drivers. PCI. So I uninstalled them, borrowed a
friend's nvidia fx5000 card (or something similar) AGP, put it into the AGP
slot, checked the bios, AGP. Checked the system info when everything had
loaded - PCI.

So the question is, with the PnP bios, why is the AGP card being recognised
as a PCI? How do I get Windows to recognise the AGP card as being AGP? Is it
a windows problem? Or could it be a mobo problem?

Owing to financial limitations I want to upgrade the graphics card, and was
going for a 512MB ati x1650 ddr2 agp. The extra ram would help, but I want my
AGP card to be an AGP card. So suggestions most welcome.

Thank you
.

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