About Chris Morrison Expertise Installation of cards. Difference between card types. What card is best for your purpose. Driver problems. All video issues.
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Expert: Chris Morrison Date: 7/25/2008 Subject: New video card running slow
Question Hello, I just got my new agp video card, it's a visiontek 2600 pro agp 512 ram.
The issue is that when i install the video card, and i turn on the computer, everything works fine for a minute or so. after the minute, the computer slows down pretty bad, i can't do anything at all. the same happens if i run in safe mode.
I wasn't able to install the driver due to this issue. Could it be the driver issue? if so, how can i install the driver?
something else that you might want to know, my motherboard is a little old now, and it only supports up to 256 in the "agp aperture size" part of the BIOS.
Thank you very much
Answer In the bios, let the video apature size at 64. this will not really affect the video card. Apature memory is your physical memory. This is used when the video card runs low of on board memory. So if you have it up to 256, you are technically taking 256 away from the system. This may account for part of the slow down.
Also you may want connect the old video card, and boot to windows.
Go to device manager, expand the video adapter section, right click the card and choose remove or uninstall.
Then go to add/remove programs. Uninstall any software or drivers for that card.
Shut down.
Install the new card
boot.
Go into the bios.
Load the setup defaults and save.
Go into windows cancel the device wizard. Don't install the driver on the cd (it's about a year old already). Go to visiontek's website and download the newest drivers and install them.
Reboot and check function.
