I bought AGP graphics card, and a PCI-E one.

[Szape]

BIOS but first check out your motherboard's version. updating agp-driver might be enough so i would start with that.

 

[Laddey]

BIOS but first check out your motherboard's version.

Give me your msn pliz!

And to be honest, this is dangerous stuff. I think i'll leave it. I'll see if i can tweak anything with RivaTuner if not ill shrivvle up in a corner or something

 

[Tesla Monkor]

Everest is only producing garbage it seems, looking at the screenshot.

Here's another tool you can try:

http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-138.zip

It should identify your mobo, cpu, memory.

Don't start messing with your BIOS until you know for certain which mobo you have.. and tbh, it sounds like your vid-card is just dying. These things do not have an eternal life.

 

[Basic_X]

Your loss if it doesn't work! Remember, your nothing without me.

greater loss for you then for me, no daoc for you = no pl = sad laddey sitting on his arse cursing over a non working gfx card

 

[Szape]

yeah, cpu-z should display the version (and date of the bios)

tesla; vid-cards dont have eternal life but they do tend to last for longer than 5mins after installing

 

[Laddey]

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/766/mobo1sm4.jpg

 

[Yeke]

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/766/mobo1sm4.jpg

Still no clues on the make or model but the bios is dated 1997

If all your pc is as old as this tbh I think you would be better of buying a cheap pc or building a new one rather than trying to upgrade it as something will always bottleneck anything you upgrade.

 

[Laddey]

Still no clues on the make or model but the bios is dated 1997

If all your pc is as old as this tbh I think you would be better of buying a cheap pc or building a new one rather than trying to upgrade it as something will always bottleneck anything you upgrade.

My motherboard is the oldest thing definatly. RAM aint to bad, graphics card is shit hot to do what i want to do(if it would fucking work).

Processor aint as shit hot but it aint that bad. All i want to do is be able to play DAoC and i'd be happy to be honest. My MX400 runs DAoC better.

Finding my mb and chispet model/make etc etc now.

 

[Szape]

elitegroup is the manufactorer, model is probably "K7Sxxx" and version is probably 3.0 once you have found those out we can upgrade chipset drivers and update bios if needed.

(edit; you need to open the case and look these things in motherboard)

 

[Laddey]

I see a sticker....

686 AMIBIOS 1999 BG05 7153

Its that old i bet the dust has worn it off :/ cant see much else signifying the model.

Why couldnt it be easy like ... MOTHERBOARD MODEL IS ...

 

[Szape]

its probably written with huge letters between cpu and ram slots. whats the colour of mb? purple?

 

[Laddey]

its probably written with huge letters between cpu and ram slots. whats the colour of mb? purple?

Orange

 

[Szape]

is the layout similar to this? (click "more pictures" for bigger picture)

 

[Laddey]

Very very similar. *looks behind him*

BIOS Battery ??? i think it is. Is somewhere else though but that shouldn't matter?

 

[Szape]

does it have more than 2 ram slots? if bios battery is in different location it could mean you have older version of that mb. the version of the mb is near the keyboard connector or in very small print in the corner of the board nearest PCI connector (1.0, 1.0a, 3.0a, 7.0 etc etc).

 

[Laddey]

2 RAM Slots.

Is it indented on the board?

Or is this it....HE-MX/2021


http://www.ami.com/support/bios.cfm/

Is there anyway of taking a picture of that ^^ like print screen or something? Or shall i use my 3mb pixel samsung d900 and try and upload it.


This is painful. Thanks for the help.

EA=000795E58430 ?


KA75008(or a B) v202a

 

[Laddey]

I found this when loading up my computer.


62-0226-00101111-071595-SiS7305-M810LR-H

 

[Szape]

take a picture of your mb if you can ;P

 

[Laddey]

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4073/moboww5.jpg


Picture inc in 5min

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2656/photo0059zb2.jpg

 

[Szape]

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Pr...ailid=193&DetailName=Driver&MenuID=52&LanID=0 just install agp-drivers and see what happens

 

[Laddey]

Ok cool, thanks. Give me abit of hope. should this graphics card work with this motherboard? i mean, should it work 100% nicely play daoc without graphics bugs and that stuff?

 

[Neffneff]

I found this when loading up my computer.


62-0226-00101111-071595-SiS7305-M810LR-H

usually i'd direct you to www.wimsbios.com to get the manufacturer from that bios number, but the site seems down atm, dont know if it's closed permenantly or not.

 

[Laddey]

usually i'd direct you to www.wimsbios.com to get the manufacturer from that bios number, but the site seems down atm, dont know if it's closed permenantly or not.

Sucks :/ any other sites?


And installing the AGP drivers didn't do much

 

[Melachi]

You still having problems Laddey?

Don't go shelling out more money on other hardware or getting a shop to fix it until we've gone through a list of things.

First off, are you still having the problem where you don't see anything on the monitor until windows loads?

If so, can you look at the back of the pc and see if there is anywhere the monitor could plug into on the motherboard?

 

[Gamah]

Laddeh send me £300 and I'll send you a nice PC thats quite old! And when I said professional help I didn't mean PC world those clowns charge you £10 to stick a bit of ram in + Know fuck all, I wouldn't trust me PC to those idiots.

 

[Laddey]

Laddeh send me £300 and I'll send you a nice PC thats quite old! And when I said professional help I didn't mean PC world those clowns charge you £10 to stick a bit of ram in + Know fuck all, I wouldn't trust me PC to those idiots.

Aye, pitty gamah. Would buy a new pc aswell sick of this shed-of-shit clogging up my room big great peice of crack lying around.

Time for a new pc imo

 

[Laddey]

You still having problems Laddey?

Don't go shelling out more money on other hardware or getting a shop to fix it until we've gone through a list of things.

First off, are you still having the problem where you don't see anything on the monitor until windows loads?

If so, can you look at the back of the pc and see if there is anywhere the monitor could plug into on the motherboard?

I can get into bios now

 

[Neffneff]

It sounds to me like you have an onboard graphics card, that is funtioning as primary display, and then once you hit windows, your new card switches on as secondary display thanks to windows drivers kicking in. you willl need to look through the bios if tis is the case and disable the onboard card (onboard cards usually borrow memory from the system RAM, and this i believe is what you we're talking about selecting its memory)


anyway www.wimsbios.com seems to be up and running now, so you should be able to use it and maybe find your motherboards make/model/manufacturer from that number you have when booting up.

 

[Laddey]

It sounds to me like you have an onboard graphics card, that is funtioning as primary display, and then once you hit windows, your new card switches on as secondary display thanks to windows drivers kicking in. you willl need to look through the bios if tis is the case and disable the onboard card (onboard cards usually borrow memory from the system RAM, and this i believe is what you we're talking about selecting its memory)


anyway www.wimsbios.com seems to be up and running now, so you should be able to use it and maybe find your motherboards make/model/manufacturer from that number you have when booting up.

In bios i have a choice, PCI or OnBoard AGP. No AGP single selection. Fucking ball ache i must say.

Neffneff you live near me, come here imo. Now!

 

[Neffneff]

choose PCI.

definately an elitegroup board, ill just try and dig up more info.

you live in preston? that's like nearly 300 miles away from me.