On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:25:27 +0100, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "Guy" wrote : Hello and thanks for reading me, I am the owner of a Packard Bell computer which has an AMD 2400+ cpu, a NOVA mother board and an integrated nVidia Geforce2 graphic processor. Yestarday, I bought and installed a new graphic card : the Hercules 3D Prophet 7500 dual display. The installation ( hardware and software ) made no problem, no " error message". Unfortunatelly, the new card doesn' t work, its performances are close to the integarted graphic processor. I haved used PassMark PerformanceTest 4.0 to realise that test. So, I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from Hercules website with no improvement. However, I have noticed two things : In the card properties : 1) Emplacement : Bus PCI 2, périphérique 0, fonction 0. Shouldn' t it rather be AGP ??? As the card is in an AGP4X slot. 2) Still in the card properties, the AGP folder indicates that the AGP speed is detected as being 1x and Fast Writting is desabled. Consulting my computer documentation, I see that it' s an AGP4X slot with Fast Writting capability. What is wrong ? Many thanks for your help, Guy Have you disabled the on board Graphics card/chip.Some systems this is done in the BIOS and on some it's a jumper on the mother board. -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
Graphic card problem
Hello and thanks for reading me,
I am the owner of a Packard Bell computer which has an AMD 2400+ cpu, a NOVA mother board and an integrated nVidia Geforce2 graphic processor. Yestarday, I bought and installed a new graphic card : the Hercules 3D Prophet 7500 dual display. The installation ( hardware and software ) made no problem, no " error message". Unfortunatelly, the new card doesn' t work, its performances are close to the integarted graphic processor. I haved used PassMark PerformanceTest 4.0 to realise that test. So, I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from Hercules website with no improvement. However, I have noticed two things : In the card properties : 1) Emplacement : Bus PCI 2, périphérique 0, fonction 0. Shouldn' t it rather be AGP ??? As the card is in an AGP4X slot. 2) Still in the card properties, the AGP folder indicates that the AGP speed is detected as being 1x and Fast Writting is desabled. Consulting my computer documentation, I see that it' s an AGP4X slot with Fast Writting capability. What is wrong ? Many thanks for your help, Guy |
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:25:27 +0100, "Guy" wrote:
Hello and thanks for reading me, I am the owner of a Packard Bell computer which has an AMD 2400+ cpu, a NOVA mother board and an integrated nVidia Geforce2 graphic processor. Yestarday, I bought and installed a new graphic card : the Hercules 3D Prophet 7500 dual display. The installation ( hardware and software ) made no problem, no " error message". Unfortunatelly, the new card doesn' t work, its performances are close to the integarted graphic processor. I haved used PassMark PerformanceTest 4.0 to realise that test. So, I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from Hercules website with no improvement. However, I have noticed two things : In the card properties : 1) Emplacement : Bus PCI 2, périphérique 0, fonction 0. Shouldn' t it rather be AGP ??? As the card is in an AGP4X slot. 2) Still in the card properties, the AGP folder indicates that the AGP speed is detected as being 1x and Fast Writting is desabled. Consulting my computer documentation, I see that it' s an AGP4X slot with Fast Writting capability. What is wrong ? Many thanks for your help, Guy 1) That's not a problem, an AGP video card will be reported that way. 2) Check the BIOS for an AGP speed and fastwrites setting. A Radeon 7500 should be a little faster in 3D games, but perhaps not noticably faster in PassMark... try benchmarking with 3DMark 2001. Even so, a Radeon 7500 is a poor upgrade from Geforce2 integrated video, the performance of the two can be similar (relatively speaking) with midrange and newer cards being much faster. Radeon 7500 is a low-end card and has low-end performance. Dave |
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