Installing PCI Express card

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I got an ATI PCI Express card for Christmas. My system has an
Intel Graphics chip on the motherboard. I see in my Bios I have a setting
for PCI Express. Do I have to uninstall drivers for that or just install my
new card reboot and change the Bios setting? I than install the ATI
software.
 
Disabling the onboard videocard should be sufficient,but best to check if
you got any extra drivers installed for this feature.
If so,just uninstall the old drivers.The pcie bios setting should be at
100mhz.
Also note that pcie graphics cards want to run at 16x.This should be set by
default but if present in your bios check for that also.
 
actually you don't have to do anything.
Most bios is setting to use PCI/EXPRESS cards first, failing that, then
onboard video.
Just plug in your ATI card, install the driver, and you are all set!
 
and if, you want to install in a agp slot. Get a pair of snippers (diag
cutters), carefully line up the back row of vertical markers with the back
of the agp slot. Then count back from the front edge, all the over hanging
vertical markers. For example: there are twenty three vertical markers from
the front of the video card to the the front on the agp slot. INsure you
count back enough to allow what is left of the edge (top of vertical
markers) to seat into the agp board. Okay so you have your count of vertical
markers. You can see this coming i am sure - after all you took the side
off your PC and discovered an empty agp slot huh. Okay use the snippers to
trim the markers off just to the top of the markers and everything from the
count forward. Remember different mainboard manufacturer's will most likely
require a different number of vertical markers to be trimmed back. OF course
this is why the lengthy instructions, lol, would be nice just to able to
tell you go ahead and cut back 19 vertical markers.

note: i do not see any of the thread above the other post, so you might
already know this interface trick huh.

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Flow said:
Disabling the onboard videocard should be sufficient,but best to check if
you got any extra drivers installed for this feature.
If so,just uninstall the old drivers.The pcie bios setting should be at
100mhz.
Also note that pcie graphics cards want to run at 16x.This should be set
by
default but if present in your bios check for that also.
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Yes, and then the ATi card will naturally run Glide games with a simple
batchfile... right.
 
Dr. Richard Cranium said:
and if, you want to install in a agp slot. Get a pair of snippers (diag
cutters), carefully line up the back row of vertical markers with the back
of the agp slot. Then count back from the front edge, all the over hanging
vertical markers. For example: there are twenty three vertical markers from
the front of the video card to the the front on the agp slot. INsure you
count back enough to allow what is left of the edge (top of vertical
markers) to seat into the agp board. Okay so you have your count of vertical
markers. You can see this coming i am sure - after all you took the side
off your PC and discovered an empty agp slot huh. Okay use the snippers to
trim the markers off just to the top of the markers and everything from the
count forward. Remember different mainboard manufacturer's will most likely
require a different number of vertical markers to be trimmed back. OF course
this is why the lengthy instructions, lol, would be nice just to able to
tell you go ahead and cut back 19 vertical markers.

note: i do not see any of the thread above the other post, so you might
already know this interface trick huh.
Click to expand...

Wow, cool.
Does it work vice versa for an agp card? LMAO

Cu, Michael
 
Michael said:
Wow, cool.
Does it work vice versa for an agp card? LMAO

Cu, Michael
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I'm pretty sure it'll also require the sacrifice of the user's system to
the God Of Destroyed Hardware.
 
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