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2mb video Card
Name: Jesse Date: October 13, 2003 at 15:57:37 Pacific OS: Win 98 SE CPU/Ram: 200mhz/96mb of RAM
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My video card is an on board video card, and I wanted to upgrade it from 1mb to 2mb of memory. I put the little chips in (I do not know the name of them), and The Bios said I then had a 2 mb video card but when I started Win 98 the picture was all messed up, before windoes 98 the picture was fine. I have a Dell Optiplex Gs with the service tag number 9KXYZ.
Name: redragon525 Date: October 13, 2003 at 16:44:23 Pacific
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Just a question.. is this your main computer? Or do you just like staring at the wall for an hour while your computer boots up? I used to have a "nice" 333.....a 200 must be hell....
Do you DESPERATELY need the extra 1 *?!?!* of video memory? Why do you need this so badly?
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Response Number 2
Name: oneibear (by bear) Date: October 13, 2003 at 16:55:28 Pacific
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I suspect that you need a new driver for your video adapter.
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Response Number 3
Name: SkipCox Date: October 13, 2003 at 18:15:37 Pacific
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I'm sure bear is correct. I have an old trident 1Mb card that uses different drivers than the 512Kb flavor of the same card/chipset.
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Response Number 4
Name: Adam Date: October 13, 2003 at 19:55:12 Pacific
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Did you make sure that the vram chips were installed correctly? Is the extra vram compatible with the vga card? Is there a possibility that the vram is dodgy?
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Response Number 5
Name: SkipCox Date: October 13, 2003 at 21:55:41 Pacific
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Adam makes a good point. The chip will fit in either direction but only work in one.
There is a notch on the top on one end of the chip and that needs to match with the u shaped notch on the socket.
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Response Number 6
Name: Adam Date: October 13, 2003 at 22:37:55 Pacific
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Don't I always Skip...hehe :)...probably should have mentioned that myself...sorry.
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