Video card issuesquestions 370

On 27 Jan 2006 10:05:03 -0800, "AcidX"

It needs a better video card for what, exactly? The consideration must be of what you hope to gain.

4MB memory, well endowed compared to some video cards of that era... I have a shoebox full of 1-2MB cards, they're useful for troubleshooting, function-specific systems that don't need anything particular for video, or when a bios is bad they can be useful to get a display output, sometimes, when an AGP card won't.

You'd first want to disable the onboard video, or leave the PCI card set to secondary in bios and run system from it until the driver for the new card is installed. Windows probably supports that card with a basic driver already, at least any version of windows newer than Win98 first edition.

Probably unrelated, mere coincidence that it's also a PCI card.

Basic 2D output that's fairly crisp at low resolution. It was a reasonably good card for that in it's day but that was a decade ago, today it's slow by any standard you want to compare so only if there is no particular video need (such as a system with no user watching a monitor, or some retro MAMEDOS thing) would it be a reasonable choice.

Throwing away or keeping old parts has more to do with your philosophy about keeing things on a remote chance they might be useful to a limited extent... and how much space you have to store such things. If it's giving you the evil eye and you loose sleep over it, bash it with a hammer as that can be very satisfying, but otherwise, keep using your integrated video if it's remotely modern as it's better than a PCI card that old.