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Hopefully a fun read: my ordeal setting up my MAME pc
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shorthair:

--- Quote from: TOK on May 29, 2007, 07:01:56 am ---

Also had a new keyboard that was bad right out of the box. I fixed that too.  >:D





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Na na, that's a rubber mallet. You need a five pound sledge, you know.

Anubis: of course the card would supersede the integrated graphics. This is basic new hardware recognition. I think it's even mentioned or alluded to on the avga faq.
Anubis_au:

--- Quote from: shorthair on May 29, 2007, 05:07:38 pm ---Anubis: of course the card would supersede the integrated graphics. This is basic new hardware recognition. I think it's even mentioned or alluded to on the avga faq.

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It's been a number of years since I built my last pc... and from memory, it didn't override the integrated...
TOK:

--- Quote from: shorthair on May 29, 2007, 05:07:38 pm ---
Na na, that's a rubber mallet. You need a five pound sledge, you know.

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The keys in a 15' circle around the garage disagree.
SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Anubis_au on May 29, 2007, 08:44:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 29, 2007, 05:07:38 pm ---Anubis: of course the card would supersede the integrated graphics. This is basic new hardware recognition. I think it's even mentioned or alluded to on the avga faq.

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It's been a number of years since I built my last pc... and from memory, it didn't override the integrated...

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Yeah, I've got an old IBM that's like that. MB designers finally got wise to that and started configuring the boards to disable the integrated video by default when you pop in an additional card.
Anubis_au:
Which, under normal circumstances, would be acceptable, but in the case of this pc, it meant I had to remove everything to install the ArcadeVGA drivers.

Not that I am complaigning anymore. Always look for the good in things: I've had more practice building computers in the last few days than I have for ages. And I have another rebuild to go, because at lunch I bought the case off the crooks (for $60) and will be using it. My video cable issues are hopefully solved also, so right now I'm hopeful that everything will be sorted real soon, and I can move onto stage 2 of my project, configuring MAME etc and shopping for my monitor.

But at the least, my physical issues with the computer will now be a thing of the past. And that alone is cause for celebration, because as someone wrote above, this is upposed to be the easy bit :P
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