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Name: dmacdou1
Date: January 7, 2005 at 16:25:55 Pacific
OS: XP media edition
CPU/Ram: P4 3g 1GBram
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Can anyone tell me how easy it is to swap my current card(ati9200) with say, a 6600gt(reccomended to me here). I mean what problems am i likely to see. Its been a long time since i swapped a card out, and then it was just a straight swap.but even then i had lots of probs at first, for instance the pc though i had 2 monitors attached and so the display only filled half the screen. I'm hoping to avoid this type of problem if possible. Thx.

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Processor=P4 3GHzHT
Motherboard=ASUS P4SD-LA with Intel 848P chipset
ATI9200 128meg.




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Name: snoopy104
Date: January 7, 2005 at 16:47:22 Pacific
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Before you pull the old card out, go to control panel/system/device manager and uninstall it.

Then shut your machine down, pull the old card out, put the new one in and turn your computer back on. Windows will tell you that a new device has been found and will ask for the location of the drivers CD.

Problems you could get:
Old drivers not completely removed.
Solution: Use this free utlility:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

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Name: dmacdou1
Date: January 8, 2005 at 18:35:13 Pacific
Reply:

Thx Snoopy, I think thats what i did wrong last time, I didn't uninstall the old card first, I just swapped it out.
Do you forsee any issues going from ATI to Nvidia?

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Processor=P4 3GHzHT
Motherboard=ASUS P4SD-LA with Intel 848P chipset
ATI9200 128meg.
160g HDdont know which kind



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