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I could have been surfing FOG for the past evening, but after my visit to a computer shop to pick up my new modem, I've been unable to use the PC. Why?

Well, as always when I go to get something electrical, I always come back with more than I bargained with. This time it was an ATI all-in wonder 128 AGP card (try saying that when you're drunk!)

Could I get the blasted thing to work? Nope, it decided to have a little fun and hang windows instead. Well, it's probably the other (on board) graphics card that's doing it, but I've lost the manual and can't find a jumper to turn it off. So I spent last night trawling through endless system.ini files and setups in a bid to get the card working with my PC. hrmph.

If I'm on the net tonight, it's because I've fixed it or given up and re-installed the drivers on my old card. Otherwise it will be an update tomorrow.

Wish me luck!

pb does devon? I think not.... ;-)

Video editing huh?

Well all know why you got one then pb!!


:-)

PC format said that it got quite a low Quake III score compared to the other cards, but it's still reasonable if you get the AGP version. For other stuff it's fantastic and will also allow you to watch TV, record it to your harddrive and also record from a video or video camera and compress to MPEG2 and then send to a Video CD to watch on a DVD player.

The software will allow you to edit and recut your video, adding effects as you go.

I've heard that card is a pretty good rounder at a reasonable price.

I was going to get one, or are they *really* bad?

Whoooo Style! wrote:
> I would wish you good luck but you bought a crap card

Gamewise, I'd agree. Although it's better than my TNT 8mb card. I don't really play too many PC games though, as I have 4 consoles and prefer my emulators too. I bought it for video and rendering functions, it's a very fast card for these and it also speeds windows up in 2d as well.

Thanks YH, unfortunately I've already done this. It's Reformat harddrive time now as:

a) it makes me back everything up, something I'm usually not good at making myself do.

b) It means all that crap on the hard drive gets wiped. No matter how good your uninstaller and clean up progs are, there's always a load of crap it misses.

Whoooo Style! - Yes, you're right about the onboard graphics, but I didn't realise this until it was too late. The sticker on the case said AGP TNT card, so I thought it would be a nice simple AGP card, but it's a mixture of a riser card and some sort of on-board gubbins.

The modem I've got inside my PC is a standard 56k v90, but I'm getting an ISDN connection next friday, so I got a USB ISDN modem.

Oh well. Back to it at 6pm tonight!

Good luck....
what speed was your last modem?????

I would wish you good luck but you bought a crap card and you also bought a mobo with an on board graphics card so it serves you right.

only joking mate, good luck.

Good Luck

I hate when that happens, regular basis for me :D

Good luck.