MEW-AM Video Upgrade

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Hello, I have an HP Pavilion 8755C. When I went to the HP site to search for
a bios update it referred to the motherboard as a "MEW-AM" which appears to
be made by Asus. I have been told that a pci video card will not work on
this board. It has integrated graphics and no agp slot. I am trying to avoid
replacing the board just to upgrade the video. It will not play MS flight
simulator because it needs 16mb's of video memory minimum. If anyone could
advise me I would be grateful. Thank you.

Guy
 
I also wanted to know if since this is the original board can I use a bios
update from Asus or do I have to use the one provided by HP since it would
be an oem board.
Thank you again.
Guy
 
I don't see why that should be the case. It's definitely worth a try.
You *may* have to use an older one that does not yet require PCI 2.2, I
don't know what old i810 boards support there. (One would have to look
into the ICH/ICH0 specs.)
I also wanted to know if since this is the original board can I use a bios
update from Asus or do I have to use the one provided by HP since it would
be an oem board.
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YMMV. While some OEM boards work fine with a BIOS for the original
board, others do not.

Stephan
 
YMMV. While some OEM boards work fine with a BIOS for the original
board, others do not.
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I was told by a guy who was selling these boards that you could only
use the HP updates. He had quite a few of them and seemed very
familiar with the issue. I got the impression he'd tried it. Like
the man said, YMMV.

IMHE, HP always has a customized BIOS (that never fails to
suck) for no apparent reason other than the fact that there's a group
in HP that apparently justifies their existence by customizing the
BIOS requirements. They have other internal groups doing similar
nonsensical changes to other commercial components. The same thing
happens at other manufacturers (ex) Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc. Why
they don't just buy commercial components and use them, I'll never
know (Oh, wait, I know, someone at "corporate" justifies their
existence this way and it's against corporate rules to actually do
something that makes sense and costs the company less).

We had quite a few laughs (and groans) working *in house* at a few
of these manufacturers when their internal (BIOS) groups couldn't even
get them to run right. "Oh, that system is only designed to run win2k
*server*, not win2K *professional*". LOL.
 
Thanks for the replies, I don't understand why HP and others have to have
their own proprietary BIOS's on a board made by somebody like Asus. Do they
think that their bios is better than the one provided by Asus? Or do they
just want us to be dependent upon them for all updates, I think that it
sucks.

Guy
 
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