Freezes up Need good cheap video card!

troopie · #1 June 24th, 2005, 12:11 PM

Thanks okes,

According to the documentation for this mainboard, it has an AGP 4x slot. I'll order one today and I should be in action soon. Time, of course, is the devil.

Shame! here comes the baas. Back to work

troopie

Shadowcougar · #2 June 25th, 2005, 02:43 AM

went to tiger direct and gota gforce 2 32 mb card for 19 dollars US. it on www.tigerdirect.com or I went to the Raleigh, NC store and picked it up. took longer to open the case than to replace it.

troopie · #3 June 28th, 2005, 07:47 PM

I got a radeon 7000 and installed it. The mainboard is an off brand and although it has an agp slot, it wouldn't recognise the card. So I added 256MB more system ram, upped the shared ram from 16 to 64mb and it now runs acceptably.

I'll return the video card and let that be a lesson to all, don't buy strange brand mainboards.

troopie

Shadowcougar · #4 June 29th, 2005, 02:10 AM

maybe the AGP slot was a 2x only. the 7000 is a 4x card

Arralen · #5 June 29th, 2005, 10:45 AM

It's isn't so much of a strange brand motherboard than a simply cheapo one, which is mostly sold the OEMs who assemble boxes for offices etc. . So there's no need for extended compatibility and upgrade-possiblities... .

You didn't read the FAQ for the motherboard, did you?
- I have that link posted somewhere up this thread ...

Some cards do work with this board, some don't.
Radeon 7000 should work (with a little tweak), if you have a late revision of the board and it's not some Radeon-based card from some obscure graphics card manufaturer again ..

But, good to hear the game runs at last. Have fun !

troopie · #6 June 29th, 2005, 11:32 AM

I have the FAQ. I used it to hunt for graphics cards. The manual said the mainboard had a free AGP slot. I installed the 4x card in the four x slot. The Bios would not recognise it. I could not find updates on the net. The options were onboard AGP and PCI. (not PCI Express) So I removed the card, added the RAM, and upped the shared RAM to 64MB, using the BIOS. My options are Get a PCI card, if I can find one, or live with the situation at present. I'm looking for a good 32 or more PCI card and living with 64mb shared ram. 320MB free is plenty for my normal applications.

troopie

m_kane · #7 June 30th, 2005, 05:36 PM

Mabye you need to find a jumper on the motherboard to disable the integrated gfx and enable the AGP slot?

Your solution seems the easiest by far though

There is no such thing as too much RAM hehehehe