I have a new video card, with the driver installed, but I need to uninstall the integrated video card's driver for the new one to work.
I went to add/remove programs and found it... but I'm not sure exactly how to do this.
here is a screenshot: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/c…
should I click yes? I don't know what VGA means... please help!|||When it asks choose yes and it will revert to VGA mode for you. Then go back into Add/Remove and it will let you remove the driver. Good Luck.|||drive cleaner is what you need. it will completely destroy your old video drivers giving you a clean install. video cards are very fussy about having a clean driver installed. you will get this great little utility from http://download.com|||Yes there is no problem, you can change it VGA mode when you start your computer press f8 like you want to start safe mode move to VGA press enter you computer screen will look bad but it is OK until you install the new one.|||You can always just disable the old graphics driver via the Device Manager panel.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Integrated video/graphic card? WTF ISIT?!?!?
I bought an old "Compaq EVO D510 CMT" coming to me right now. Even though I have already a powerful laptop, I use it mostly for simple games/websurfing/porn which is absurb since I used it for hours non-stop without doing much high-end stuff so it might eventually overheat-errors,etcc if continue use. So I want this desktop to meet my web surfing and mainly simple games like the one I am addicted for life:
Gunz: http://gunz.ijji.com/guide.nhn
Gunbound: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/3778
Links shows the requirements for the game I might be playing forever.
My Questions(I don't know anything about video cards):
1) Le Duche is integrated video card?
2) Video card is integrated in the above desktop model, so how do I know whether it meets the games above's requirements? or the integrated graphic card doesn't matter since ram is taken and used as ram for the video card?
3) If I wanted to changed my integrated video card, how do I know which one is best? by the "video ram" it provides? WTF radeon, nvidia, dunno what's the difference. I just want one that meets the games above and Runescape in it's highest setting(http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Game_req…|||http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quick…
That is a pretty outdated PC that has the Intel integrated Extreme Graphics 2 (circa 2003). It is very weak for gaming and only supports the very outdated Shader version 1.1. Most games require version 2.0 or 3.0 support.
You can improve the gaming performance of that PC by installing a real or dedicated graphics card on the vacant AGP graphics expansion slot. Any of the cards here should work;
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis…
Gunz: http://gunz.ijji.com/guide.nhn
Gunbound: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/3778
Links shows the requirements for the game I might be playing forever.
My Questions(I don't know anything about video cards):
1) Le Duche is integrated video card?
2) Video card is integrated in the above desktop model, so how do I know whether it meets the games above's requirements? or the integrated graphic card doesn't matter since ram is taken and used as ram for the video card?
3) If I wanted to changed my integrated video card, how do I know which one is best? by the "video ram" it provides? WTF radeon, nvidia, dunno what's the difference. I just want one that meets the games above and Runescape in it's highest setting(http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Game_req…|||http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quick…
That is a pretty outdated PC that has the Intel integrated Extreme Graphics 2 (circa 2003). It is very weak for gaming and only supports the very outdated Shader version 1.1. Most games require version 2.0 or 3.0 support.
You can improve the gaming performance of that PC by installing a real or dedicated graphics card on the vacant AGP graphics expansion slot. Any of the cards here should work;
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis…
What is the best PCI video card out right now?
I want a good card that can play games decently and smoothly.
Also I have an integrated video card. Do I have to uninstall it? Do I have to reinstall my OS?
(If this helps)
I want something that can run GTA III and WarRock in a smooth and descent manner.|||Nvidia Geforce FX5200 256MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
ATI Radeon 9250 256MB DDR PCI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…|||Do they even make those any more?
GTA III will have trouble on an old PCI card.|||the GeForce 6800 would work good with those games. The only thing you would have to do is disable your integrated video card in the device manager. you can get 1 cheaper then anywhere else on www.tigerdirect.com|||Nvidia GeForce 6600 PCI Express and above really great.!
Good luck.|||check out one of these four discount sales sites,,, choose your preference not what someone suggests, w/ these you can choose your best to your liking,, first try Newegg.com and choose the pci video cards section and check out highest rated, based on what you want,,, it has many valuable ratings and info based on user info,,, also check Tiger Direct.com ,, ZipZoomFly.com,,, (which has free shipping on most items) prices very competetive.... and Laptops4me.com, these are the leaders in internet computer sales and are a very good resource when checkin on what people have used,,, good luck!! also , if you change from integrated, to pci, you will have to change your jumpers if your motherboard has them you will have to set vga to disable and keep interupt enabled ,,, even if you disable in device manager, motherboard may give you errors and ,may not reboot, giving you a black screen, and listing on the screen a compatable video card needed,,, check your users manual for your motherboard|||Well I'm not sure about the best PCI video card, but best PCIe card would be the geforce 7950 GX2, but if your still using a PCI slot you should get a new motherboard, and disable your integrated in the device manager. I am getting a new pc relatively cheap ($800) with a graphics card that can run all the newest games with good quality. Visit http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1959811,00.asp
for a list of all the parts.|||Studio 700 PCI Version 10.5 is probably the best one you can find in stores|||NVIDIA GeForce 4, It has yet to let me down.|||it really depends on your OS & hardware, but if you are running an Intel Board for example, ATI would be ideal.|||I do not know about the best card but i can tell you this:
If your card is integrated then you have to find a card that is compatible with your motherboard.
and why are you buying a pci card? Win vista comes out in about 5 months, trust me its true, the graphics work on Aero technology so the best card is not going to work.
Also I have an integrated video card. Do I have to uninstall it? Do I have to reinstall my OS?
(If this helps)
I want something that can run GTA III and WarRock in a smooth and descent manner.|||Nvidia Geforce FX5200 256MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
ATI Radeon 9250 256MB DDR PCI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…|||Do they even make those any more?
GTA III will have trouble on an old PCI card.|||the GeForce 6800 would work good with those games. The only thing you would have to do is disable your integrated video card in the device manager. you can get 1 cheaper then anywhere else on www.tigerdirect.com|||Nvidia GeForce 6600 PCI Express and above really great.!
Good luck.|||check out one of these four discount sales sites,,, choose your preference not what someone suggests, w/ these you can choose your best to your liking,, first try Newegg.com and choose the pci video cards section and check out highest rated, based on what you want,,, it has many valuable ratings and info based on user info,,, also check Tiger Direct.com ,, ZipZoomFly.com,,, (which has free shipping on most items) prices very competetive.... and Laptops4me.com, these are the leaders in internet computer sales and are a very good resource when checkin on what people have used,,, good luck!! also , if you change from integrated, to pci, you will have to change your jumpers if your motherboard has them you will have to set vga to disable and keep interupt enabled ,,, even if you disable in device manager, motherboard may give you errors and ,may not reboot, giving you a black screen, and listing on the screen a compatable video card needed,,, check your users manual for your motherboard|||Well I'm not sure about the best PCI video card, but best PCIe card would be the geforce 7950 GX2, but if your still using a PCI slot you should get a new motherboard, and disable your integrated in the device manager. I am getting a new pc relatively cheap ($800) with a graphics card that can run all the newest games with good quality. Visit http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1959811,00.asp
for a list of all the parts.|||Studio 700 PCI Version 10.5 is probably the best one you can find in stores|||NVIDIA GeForce 4, It has yet to let me down.|||it really depends on your OS & hardware, but if you are running an Intel Board for example, ATI would be ideal.|||I do not know about the best card but i can tell you this:
If your card is integrated then you have to find a card that is compatible with your motherboard.
and why are you buying a pci card? Win vista comes out in about 5 months, trust me its true, the graphics work on Aero technology so the best card is not going to work.
If I install an AGP video card will the RAM on my computer increase?
I have a 32MB integrated video card, but I want to install a separate video card so I can play newer games. Will the 32MB of RAM be freed up so that the computer doesn't use it for the integrated video card?|||No. That RAM is for video only.|||not a chance dude.|||YES! Once you plug in a video card on the AGP slot, BIOS will detect it, will disable integrated graphics and will NOT allocate system RAM to it. So, you will effectively recover the 32Mb to system RAM.
Happy gaming!
Happy gaming!
Motherboard and onboard video card question?
i wanna avoid having to deal with potential problems when i install a separate video card on a motherboard with integrated video card so i now i'm planning to get a mobo witho no integrated video card..my problem is that the mobo with no onboard/integrated video card costs about 10 to 20 dollars more than a motherboard with an onboard/integrated video card...what should i pick?|||Get the motherboard with no integrated card as the integrated video cards are usually pretty limited and also, the integrated type motherboards are lower quality as they are designed for low budget utility systems. Non integrated motherboards allow you to choose the best components so you have good performance particularly for graphics intensive applications such as gaming|||i personally would choose the mobo with no integrated video card because it would be easy to change the video card
How do I disable an integrated video card on a HP Pavilion a810n?
I've tried everything from the BIOS, disabling the display from the device manager, uninstalling the drivers from the integrated video card, to contacting HP and not even HP could give me the right answer. I went into the BIOS and selected PCI (that is the new video card I'm trying to install) but when booting the computer with the new video card inserted I get no image/display. I also removed the jumpers from the motherboard but that didn't help either. Is there anything else left to do? Thanks.|||I did a quick search on google and saw a lot of posts blaming the power supply of the Pavilion A810N. They said it has just enough to power the current system, but once you add a video card to mix... it just can't cut it. If your PSU is really 250W, you really should look at replacing it with a newer, better one.
From the link below, this is one of the posts I mentioned.
Scottinindy:
"I bought the a810n also. A couple of things. It runs in energy star mode by default. Hence the 1.8 reading instead of 2.4, Go into power management and change to always on and you will run the full 2.4. ( It is supposed to kick up automatically when the extra CPU power is needed when in energy star mode).
If you are still using the power supply that came stock with the computer. ( HiPro 250 watt). You should seriously consider upgrading the power supply. 250 watts is the bare minimum for the system. With the DVD burner and the power the athlon processor eats, It leaves very little extra power for graphics cards. I upgraded to a 450 watt PSU. Installed an extra 512 of ram, Installed an MSI 6600 Gt video card and chaintech 7.1 sound card. And the system runs very well. If you are using the stock PSU, I don't think your video card will ever give you the results you want until you upgrade the PSU.
Good luck."|||You can try to go manually disable it by doing this:
Start > right click on my computer > Properties > Hardware> device Manager > select your intergrated card with "1" click of the mouse and right click on the device and choose to disable the device.|||there has to be a bios setting to diable the integrated video, it may be in the integrated devices section or another section but there shoulf be one....if there isnt and you are sure you may need to get a bios update for your machine that my give you that option, couldnt hurt...
From the link below, this is one of the posts I mentioned.
Scottinindy:
"I bought the a810n also. A couple of things. It runs in energy star mode by default. Hence the 1.8 reading instead of 2.4, Go into power management and change to always on and you will run the full 2.4. ( It is supposed to kick up automatically when the extra CPU power is needed when in energy star mode).
If you are still using the power supply that came stock with the computer. ( HiPro 250 watt). You should seriously consider upgrading the power supply. 250 watts is the bare minimum for the system. With the DVD burner and the power the athlon processor eats, It leaves very little extra power for graphics cards. I upgraded to a 450 watt PSU. Installed an extra 512 of ram, Installed an MSI 6600 Gt video card and chaintech 7.1 sound card. And the system runs very well. If you are using the stock PSU, I don't think your video card will ever give you the results you want until you upgrade the PSU.
Good luck."|||You can try to go manually disable it by doing this:
Start > right click on my computer > Properties > Hardware> device Manager > select your intergrated card with "1" click of the mouse and right click on the device and choose to disable the device.|||there has to be a bios setting to diable the integrated video, it may be in the integrated devices section or another section but there shoulf be one....if there isnt and you are sure you may need to get a bios update for your machine that my give you that option, couldnt hurt...
Integrated video card can use RAM as VIDEO MEMORY?
I want to know more about my video card(Intel integrated Extreme Graphics 2 [circa 2003]) cause I don't understand, I tried googling for a while with no result:
1) How much exactly video memory does it have?
2) I heard that if it's integrated, I can go to the BIOS and make RAM be shared with my video memory in case my video ram isn't enough? is that true? is that true with my integrated card too?
3) I'm of course going to buy a video card(AGP type) capable of handling at least pixel shader 2.0. If question2 is "Yes", can the new graphic card also be shared to use RAM if neccesary?
Depending if my integrated video card can use RAM as video memory, this will help me decide whether I should get more RAM or an AGP video card that has a lot of video ram
I can't test the BIOS because I just ordered the old desktop and it will take a while to come:
Compaq EVO D510 CMT
Windows XP Professional
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Single Core
512MB(768RAM) 80GBHDD AGP Slot
integrated card Extreme Graphics 2 (circa 2003)
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quick…
if anyone should know, I have a powerfull laptop already and I don't want to kill it by hours of basic stuff this old desktop can do...|||1) 0MBs itself. It shares (ie steals) system RAM
2) You can change the amount of RAM is steals, but this has virtually no impact on the video performance.
3) No. And you wouldn't want it to. Sharing RAM is a bad thing. It's slow and inefficient.|||Yes. Any "integrated" video card (that's built into the mother board) will share the computer's RAM.
1) How much exactly video memory does it have?
2) I heard that if it's integrated, I can go to the BIOS and make RAM be shared with my video memory in case my video ram isn't enough? is that true? is that true with my integrated card too?
3) I'm of course going to buy a video card(AGP type) capable of handling at least pixel shader 2.0. If question2 is "Yes", can the new graphic card also be shared to use RAM if neccesary?
Depending if my integrated video card can use RAM as video memory, this will help me decide whether I should get more RAM or an AGP video card that has a lot of video ram
I can't test the BIOS because I just ordered the old desktop and it will take a while to come:
Compaq EVO D510 CMT
Windows XP Professional
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Single Core
512MB(768RAM) 80GBHDD AGP Slot
integrated card Extreme Graphics 2 (circa 2003)
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quick…
if anyone should know, I have a powerfull laptop already and I don't want to kill it by hours of basic stuff this old desktop can do...|||1) 0MBs itself. It shares (ie steals) system RAM
2) You can change the amount of RAM is steals, but this has virtually no impact on the video performance.
3) No. And you wouldn't want it to. Sharing RAM is a bad thing. It's slow and inefficient.|||Yes. Any "integrated" video card (that's built into the mother board) will share the computer's RAM.
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