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| Posted on Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 11:57 pm: |
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Mike -
Nice site, I stumbled upon it while searching for help with an upgrade problem i'm having with a VBOX.
my VBOX is a 500 MHz system, most likely similar to your specs. I'm trying to upgrade the video with a PCI Radeon 32 MB card. The PC freezes while booting Windows. I'm thinking the onboard graphics aren't disabled and it's causing a conflict. Any thoughts on this? Also, how did you disable the onboard graphics card?
Thanks,
Ken Buckler
highvoltageline.com webmaster
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| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2002 - 12:31 am: |
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Just a little update -
The card appears to be working now, but I've noticed the RAM available is only 64 MB, while it should be 128 MB (i've got a 32 MB chip in the first two slots and a 64 MB chip in the last slot). There are several jumpers next to the RAM chips, do I need to set a jumper so the extra RAM will be recognized? Or is it in the BIOS and i'm overlooking it?
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Mike
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| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2002 - 07:14 am: |
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Thank You Ken
Graphics Card:
First change the monitor to Standard VGA drivers, next boot into safe mode and uninstall the drivers for the onboard video card then reboot the computer, Then shut down the computer and install the new card in the PCI slot closest to the CPU, attach the cable to the card, next startup the computer and go into BIOS, set the Video to the PCI not AGP and set it to assign an IRQ. Turn off any Pallet Snooping or Video Shadowing, I think that was all you had to turn off in BIOS, check your manual, can't find mine and I built custom machines, VBOX died. Next Save and Exit BIOS, when the Computer starts up don't install if a found new hardware comes up, cancel it. You will have to check the new cards install procedure, it may want you to have the cd in when you restart after you install the card, once at the desktop, install the new cards software. If Windows keeps finding the old card and wants to install drivers, let it, then go into the Device Manager and Disable it.
Ram: if it does not find them in BIOS they are Bad or the wrong ram for that computer, or you could have put them in wrong or not seated all the way, probably the first though.
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