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| Tiger-Heli:
Idea that comes immediately to mind - In the BIOS, see if there is a setting for BOOT first from PCI or AGP and set it to PCI. Also, make sure the onboard video is disabled, preferably with a jumper. What's the model # of the motherboard? |
| Fuzzguitar:
Cheers for the replies! Here are some answers of the top off my head; No, there isn't a BIOS setting to disable on board video. No, there isn't a jumper on the board or mentioned in manual. No, onboard performance isn't acceptable. I mean I'm noticing a fair few games dipping bleow or running at half frame rates which I'm sure I've seen running okay on slower PC's. Yes, I can update BIOS but it's hardly old as it is! Certainly much newer than my Geforce card, plus this PC is bare bones - no modem etc. Yes, there is another PCI slot to try but slot 1 which I'm using is what the BIOS says to use for video. Plus I gotta break another metal tab off my case just to try it :( Yes, I've tried the latest Nvidia drivers which install fine but make no difference. Anyhow, shouldn't it start in safe mode at least without drivers? Yes, I can try the card in another PC. But I'm 99% sure it will work fine as it always has. The model number of my board is: GA-7VM400AM(F) VIA KM400A Chipset. Tiger Heli I hope this tells you something that might help. I just wanna play NBA jam, puzzle bobble 2, mk etc at 60fps. |
| SirPeale:
Try the card in another machine first, just to eliminate that possibility. Things get screwy when you've "bent some pins" |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Fuzzguitar on April 21, 2004, 05:16:21 am ---The model number of my board is: GA-7VM400AM(F) VIA KM400A Chipset. Tiger Heli I hope this tells you something that might help. --- End quote --- Bad news! I checked your mobo manual here - http://america.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/FileList/Manual/manual_7vm400am(f)_e.pdf and there indeed do not appear to be any settings for disabling on-board video - (or even setting how much memory gets assigned to video). Pretty disappointing. I also checked Gigabyte support here - http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/FAQ/FAQ_341.htm and they say: How to disable onboard VGA in order to install an VGA card? Gigabyte M/B will auto-detect the VGA card since the card pluged, therefore you don't need to change any setting by manual. I suspect that since the mobo has an AGP slot, they mean the board auto detects the AGP card and you are SOL on using a PCI card, unfortunately. I would see if someone has a spare AGP card that you could borrow and see if the board will work with that. If so, I checked www.pricewatch.com and they have a TNT2 32Mb AGP for $13 or an ATI Radeon 7000 32Mb AGP for $28. Either one would not be a stellar card for MAME, but probably better than what you have. MAME is not graphics card intensive. I've gotten fairly good performance with a pre- TNT 4M PCI card before. FWIW. |
| Fuzzguitar:
Thanks everyone and Tiger-Heli in particular! Unfortunatley something was telling me all along this was the case. I will pick an AGP card in the near future and maybe I'll post my MAME.ini in the software forum so people can see which setting might be costing me speed... The games I mentioned should run full speed with on board video though right? Whoops, hold those answers until my next post. Cheers. |
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