I bought a refurbished Compaq Presario a few years ago and recently decided to upgrade my video card so I could play 3d video games on my comp without the annoying lag/freeze time.
First I upgraded to an NVidia GeForce 5500 AGP card - which loaded fine but my monitor kept going into powersave mode. Tried reinstalling the drivers, tried going into msconfig, tried reconfiguring the monitor - but no use, it continued to be a nuisance.
SO, we took the card back and got a Diamond Stealth S120 Radeon 9550 AGP card - 256 DDR with DVI/TV-Out.
Installing this card requires the user to go into CMOS and configure the IRW to VGA, the primary Display/Video adapter, the AGP aperture, the video pallette snoop, AGP side banning, and Shadow Video BIOS/ROM - all of which it says is found in the CMOS - yet for some reason, it's no where to be found.
I'm running Windows ME (And do I ever hate it but oh well). Can someone tell me where I can change these settings - honestly I don't really know what I'm doing, and I've spent tedious hours on the internet to figure out the little bit that I have done.
My monitor is a MAG INNOVISION if that's any use to anyone.
Thanks.