I want some upgradation in my system Such as adding Graphics card, ram. Need some upgradation tips and tell me which components should I add in my system. Remember My budget is only about 200$.
View 9 RepliesI am upgrading the memory to 2GB from 1GB, could someone please tell me whether I can change the Dedicated system memory from 64MB to 128 MB or just leave it as it is. I have attached the current info.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy GeForce 9800 GTX is no longer recognized by my computer. As a result it doesn't recognize my monitor specifics either. When I look under Device Manager it doesn't have a listing for display adapters at all. There is a new entry under "Other devices" labeled "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)". When I reboot or "scan for new hardware" it trys to download drivers but fails. When I try to manually update the driver I get a message:
"Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it.
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+
The system cannot find the filed specified."
I've tried everything including updating my BIOS, updating my mainboard drivers, downloading current WQHL certified graphics drivers, uninstalling any and all drivers related to NVIDIA, etc with no luck. I have a feeling there is something simple that I'm not doing but I have no idea what it is.I can't play any games because the system "Failed to find a suitable display device. Exiting program."
I recently re-installed vista home premium back on my vaio vgn-fz17g laptop after the system crashed and i noticed a few problems. 1. the computer wont read an sd card. 2. the computer does not recognise my graphics card. 3.i have an unknown device on my device manager. 4. my "UGX"? has no drivers (and none can be found) 4. my base score used to be 4.0 today i installed another gb of ram and i checked my base score and instead of going up it went down to 1.0 i cant even use aero anymore. the base score is where i realised my graphics card disappeared all that shows up in device manager is standard vga graphics adapter when i have a 512mb graphics card somewhere inside.
View 6 Replies View RelatedIve just formatted my hard drive and got a new graphics card -ATI 4870. When I try to run a game, using 'steam' it tries to install directx before failing, so I found the download myself and tried, it failed. The error said: 'INTERNAL SYSTEM ERROR OCCURRED refer to DxError.log and DirectX.log in your windows folder to determine problem.' So what any ideas, I need directx but I cant have directx. Wasnt sure if this post should go in here, gaming or graphics card. I figured here as its more a software issue.
View 5 Replies View RelatedSince yesterday I had this problem accessing the Control Panel in Vista, the
only thing I changed to the system was adding a Hauppauge TV Card. What
would happen is that when you clicked on Control Panel nothing would be
visible where the categories would normally appear, and sometimes it would ..
Can Vista support more than 1 GPU driver? I am running Vista Ult 64. Looking to upgrade to Windows 7. I previously had an Nvidia 8800GT as my primary graphics card and also had an 8500GT installed as well on my dual boot XP/Vista PC. They worked fine and the computer recognized both correclty on both OS's I think I didn't have any trouble b/c as I found it all 8 series cards use the same driver. I bought a new primary GPU, a ATi Sapphire 4870 1GB Toxic. I am NOT trying to run SLI or Crossfire, I need availability for 3+ monitors. Can I have two completely different video drivers? I was under the impression NO, but a computer parts guy said I can install an Nvidia & ATi driver as long as I do not install the supplemental software.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'd like to do is take a Hard drive out of my old computer (which has a bad MB) and throw it in my new computer. The thing is my old HD had XP Home Premium sp3 on it and new one has Vista Home Premium 64 bit. I want to add to that a Maxtor SATA150 250GB ,8 MB 7200 RPM with XP Home Premium 32 bit SP3. Is there still the boot.ini issue since I'm not really "loading" a new OS but sorta Plugin' one in? Will it boot and give an option on which OS to use? Will Vista "see" the other HDD since stuffs already there? I've read so much on this dual-boot stuff now I'm totally lost.
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhy does vista say i have 4GB of video ram, when my card is only 1GB? is it using part of my 8GB of ram for video?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have dell inspiron 530s desktop. how can i know is there any graphics card installed or not? & if installed what is it's capacity...
View 5 Replies View Relatedi have a Dell poweredge server with Vista x64 installed. Unfortunately, it doesn't include PCI-e x16. It has 2 x4 slots with x8 connectors. What kind of graphics card can I use with this system?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870x2 Graphics card I am getting very poor gpu clock and memory speeds on both cores of my graphics card. at both 3D and 2D mode, using GPU-Z 0.3.0.0 and ati 8.12 catalyst control center I know that in 3D mode it should be at 750MHZ and 900MHz and 2D at 507MHz and 500MHz(2gpu). I have un-installed and re-installed the 8.12ccc with no change at all, also using driver cleaner(in safe mode) when un-installing. I get no arifacts as I use ExpertTool V4.0, enable fan contol for cooling while playing games. Its just the card will not run at its full potentuall or how it should.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFirst of all, I built my new PC a couple of days back installed vista ultimate 64 which is all good. The new HD is attached to the mother board via a SATA connection. I removed my old XP drive from the old PC and installed it to the new system also however as its quite old I have had to use the IDE connection on the mother board and set the jumpers to slave. I want to be able to access all my old music, photos etc.
Now Vista picks up the old XP drive through “computer” but when I try to access it, it sates I need to reformat the drive which of course I totally want to avoid!
I made sure the (ribbon type) IDE cable is using the correct (grey) slave connection and also made sure the jumper is set to slave. Apparently there is no need to set anything else to master as I’m using SATA connections. The old drive was also previously operational prior to the new build so I know there are no issues there.
I'm looking to invest in a new graphics card i have a max of about £130 i want to spend but there are a few issues first off, my pc comes with a ****ty dell 350w PSU which has one graphics power connector now i did a PSU calculator with the card i want to buy>>Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cardand it says it should come under 350 but i would like your opinions. Also is that the best card i can get for the cash? i would prefer ATI but would be willing to go over to Nvidia. i currently have a HD radeon 2600 XT which is a slim one, depth wise anything would fit, but i think a longer card would have a hard time fitting.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a 2 year old XFX GeForce 8600 GT PCIE 16X that Im trying to install in a new computer with vista 64 and on board ATI radeon HD 3200. The first couple times i tried it, after install, i got no graphics at all, until i removed the card. After going into the BIOS, and changing the "displayPort Config" from Auto to Enabled, the on board graphics would work with the card installed, but not the card graphics. When i try to load the supplied drivers I get this message "The VGA detected seems not XFX's product. please go to nvidia.com to get the driver for the other NVIDIA VGA."
I dont understand that, but i then downloaded updated drivers from Nvidia, but when i try to install them, i get an assortment of error messages, including "The Nvidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware", "you are running a 32bit version of nvidia uninstaller on a 64bit system", "setup detected the operating system in use is not windows vista 64bit" these errors seem to contradict themselves.
Is it possible this card is not compatible with the computer? The card may be bad, as my old PC lost graphics, but the geek squad (a bunch of morons by the way) swapped cards and still no graphics and said my MoBo was bad, so i just got new PC, but woudl like to use this card , as I assume its better than the included built in graphics. Going into the MoBo users guide, it doesnt cover switching from on-board graphics to PCI slot, other than describing how to configure the BIOS settings for the graphics card to support ATI Hybrid CrossFireX. I tried that, but it didnt seem to do anything either. im guessing the ATI contol center software doesnt show the enable CrossFire option without a CrossFire compatible card installed, or i didnt install the drivers correctly for that function.
Newegg.com - HIS H483QS512P Radeon HD 4830 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards. Here is my machine that i plan to put the graphics card into: HP Pavilion a6110n PC (GG781AA) specifications - HP Home & Home Office Products also, my monitor uses a VGA cable, how will i be able to convert it and plug it into the dvi ports? Now i want to know if those 2 are compatible and if i upgrade to that graphics card willi notice a difference?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhenever I'm chatting on IMVU, or doing anything which requires lot of 3D, my screen flickers 2 or 3 times, I see everything freezed, the screen turns black, and then most of the time, after a while, it turns back and gives me a balloon message on the taskbar that the graphics' driver stopped responding and is restored.
It happens a lot.
And it gives on my nerves a lot, because when the screen returns, all 3D using programs are not responding anymore, untill I try to close it, and tell Windows Vista to wait untill it responds, then it takes about a minute or 2 to see motion again.
Sometimes the error doesn't happen at all. Sometimes it happens every 5 minutes. And I even had a blue screen once.
The only thing I was able to read was that the graphics' driver stopped responding and Windows was unable to restore it.
I tried reinstalling the driver.
I own the newest version of the driver, so update is not possible.
Now i've installed Vista Home Premium 32-bit onto the system, but it will not detect the graphics card at all. Although i have got a display (Motherboard does not have on-board). I've tried using the driver disk supplied with the card, but it always tells me to go to the XFXForce website, so i do and download their drivers and install but CCC does not appear to get installed. I've tried the card in another Vista 32-bit System and it gets found and drivers install nicely and the card works fine. Is there anything wrong that i'm doing??
View 9 Replies View Relatedthis relates to my problem but when playing games (cod4) every 2 mins all the textures go weird like pink and black and all weird colours and it freezes when i press alt del and ctrl it fixes again so then i click cancel and continue playing. It happens all the time. My next problem is that cod4 just froze properly and nothing worked except cutting the power. When it restart bsod came up. this has happend twice so far once with cod4 and once with rome total war. the website above links greatly to my issues. when the pc came back on in safe mode i had a problem reports and sollution window come up and say:.....
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just installed the new GTA IV on my computer. I have a notebook with the required performance, Processor (1.8 GHz required, 2.0 GHz Owned) graphics card (256 MB Required, 384 MB Owned) and plenty of RAM (4 GB) but when the game loads, it says there is not enough video output to run the game. I have looked into why and I found the problem and was wondering if anyone could help. The problem is in the graphics memory usage. It says that 128 MB goes toward dedicated memory and 256MB goes towards shared memory. I was wondering if it were at all possible to make all of the video memory go towards the dedicated memory because in the game it says it is only getting the dedicated memory? I tried looking in BIOS to switch all of it to dedicated memory but was unsuccessfull in my attempts.
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Quote: After the recent release of the notorious GTX 260 GS GLH, Gainward strikes again and bring this time its own touch of the fastest single GPU card available to the market, the GTX 285.
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Quote: Palit has announced two new GTX 285 graphics cards. Both cards will have the same custom dual slot cooler with two fans and both will have the same specifications. The only difference is the amount of memory, so in adition to the 1GB version Palit has launched a 2GB version as well. Fudzilla - Palit goes 2GB with GTX 285
I am after a new graphics card for my computer but i need some advice as to wether it will run on my system or not.
I currently have an Nvidia Geforce 7300SE. and would like to upgrade.
Here are my system specs
OS
Vista Home Premium 32bit
CPU
Intel Pentium D Motherboard MSI Ms-7301 Memory 2GB DDR2 Graphics Card(s) Nvidia GeForce 7300SE Sound Card Realtek HD audio Onboard Monitor(s) Displays Samsung 19" widescreen Case Coolermaster Elite 334 Cooling x1 90mm blue LED front, x1 120mm blue LED rear
I have found this card and would like to know if i can use it.
BFG Tech - BFG NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT OC 256MB PCIe
I know that some graphics cant be removed if they are integrated, but most of the cards I have seen don't specify whether they can be changed. Can the Intel GMA 4500 be changed? (any model of it e.g. 4500, 4500MHD. Can the Ati Radeon HD 3200 be changed?
View 8 Replies View Relatedwhat graphics card works well with AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+? Basically I want to run MS Flight Sim X.....I believe I only have a PCI slot and am looking in the $75-150 range.....
View 5 Replies View Relatedhey, i upgraded my graphics card (ATI HD3850) on my computer and it works fine but i no longer have sound on my computer. i tryed updating the drivers and changing the settings and still no sound. when i take out the graphics card i have sound again. i asked bestbuy and they said that i shorted out something on the motherboard, i told them that when i take the card back out i have sound again and they were clueless about what to do. nobody that i've talked to has ever heard of this happening. they said it seems like a driver conflict and to upgrade the drivers, but that didn't work. does anyone have any ideas?
View 5 Replies View Relatedi have a old card lying about and cant get it to work, just wondering if you can help, all i can get off the card is Gigabyte GV-NX73S256T-RH, I have googled it and only got strange chinese results or something, i think i need the drivers for it to install hardware, and/or change bios settings,
View 8 Replies View Relatedjust bought a Compaq Presario CQ5034UK Desktop PC I need to upgrade the graphics card but i'm unsure if any PDI-E x 16 graphics will do due to the slightly smaller tower. I've searched about but dont really know what i'm looking for!!
Processor - AMD Phenom™ X3 processor 8750
Chipset - NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9100 chipset
Mem - 3GB
Hard Drive - 640GB
Video - NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9100 GPU
Motherboard - violet-no1394front
Dimensions - 169x426x377mm
I havent been on these forums in a while, which is good becuz it means i have had no problems but... i want a new graphics card becuz my intel card doesnt currently support the detail i want it to.
I currently have the Moblie intel(R) 965 express chipset family, but it doesnt support lighting detail on a game i play. its browser based, and the tech forums for that game says its my graphics card. I am awaiting full confirmation as of yet. Until then, i would like a nvidia graphics card series 6 or upwards, and i am looking to pay £50 so i dont think i am gonna get the 9 series
Installed driver for ASUS EAH3650 Silent Magic graphics card. When check for driver updates via ATI Catalyst Control Center, shows update to a ATI Raedon 3600 driver. Unsure if should stick with the latest ASUS driver or install the RAEDON one.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently built my first desktop with the help of a neighbor that knows alot about computers. Anyways, I have an ASUS M2N-VM DVI motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400 Dual-Core Processor, 4 GB Ram, 22" DCLCD LCD monitor, and a Geforce 8800 GTX graphics card and a 500 watt-power supply. When ever I would try to play games that require alot of graphics, my computer would start to slow down in even repetitions and only when I played games. Even games like Sim City 4 and Command and Conquer Generals would slow down! I thought it could have been my power supply, because it requires at least 450 watts to use and I read that my processor uses about 125W. I then recently purchased an 800 Watt BFG power supply thinking it might help the problem, but it still slows down!
View 8 Replies View Relatedi have a dell inspiron 1520 laptop does anyone know the type of graphics card in it?? ive had a look in device manager but theres no mention of the nivadia card that should be present, i was told there is one in it but hidden some way????
just that my son was questioning what games he could get to play on it, he wants call of duty 4 but unsure if it would work.