K8NNeo2Plat (bios v1.8) + 9800 PRO = 4x AGP and not 8x?

Hello
My K8N Neo2 Plat (bios v1.8) + 9800 PRO = 4x AGP and not 8x (even with bios setting set to AGP 4x8x, fast writes enabled)?
I am using the latest ATI 5.6 driver but my MSI fails to allow the AGP card to boot up at 8x (only 4x).
Q1) Should I roll back my BIOS to 1.5?
Q2) What is the best BIOS for the MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum?
Any ideas?

fyi, I think I found the problem when in Battlefield2 automatically started to lag (then die)after 10 mins LAN play.
My 9800 Pro (AGP) was dropping back to 4x (or even 1x AGP) at boot and I assume when I was playing a Battlefield2 multiplayer levels for 10 mins+ the texture cache was too much for my 9800 pro card and it had to swap to main memory via AGP 1x or 4x (killing my fps).
I have found our that the latest ATI driver uses a new method of testing your card's reliability and speed called 'GART'. Nvidia's first implementation of 'GART' was not compatible (BSOD) with an MSI K8N Neo2 Plat or XP SP2 so I have never installed the nvidia GART driver (as suggested be many)
Well the new ATI drivers (cat 5.5) need the GART software to read the BIOS '8x AGP' and 'AGP Fast Writes' values. If the GART software (mainboard driver) is not detected the ATI drivers disables the 8x AGP and Fast Writes and drops back to compatibility mode.
I installed the GART software tonight (120k file) and bingo, all is well and even my 3d benchmarks are up 25%.
Who would have thought that a video card driver needed a software driver to read BIOS values that have been able to read OK on other video cards since the dawn of time.
I will never buy an ATI video card again.

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