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.

Frustrated, know the feeling. BTDT. Thing that seemed to help me the most was to read/apply 'Trev's tweaks...' to my ME. Found @:
http://www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtweak.html
Far as editing the settings, on mine an option gets presented at startup to enter setup. If you choose that, you can alter settings as needed.
HTH.
Ed in Texas.

Older AGP standards(that is the suspected cause of the problem) are not compatible with recent AGP video cards.The computer is most probably outdated and it is not safe to keep doing this.Good luck.