@Taw

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@sS, does this fall under #31?

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Yup.


Sir Spectre


... No more signature. <-----Irony

<aaarrrggghhhhh> noooooo it's a Compaq! ok watch this space 'ill be back later. in the meantime check out my own thread "kill me now please"

Well I just found out that my kard IS 32mb. As I tried playing Halo, I get message saying video card is bellow the specs, and tahn it says 32mb. But oh well I am still getting a new one , my parents think that it is only 8mb and that I need better video card for school...they fell wor it

God I am good!!


@Taw

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<aaarrrggghhhhh> noooooo it's a Compaq!

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Why do I get a feeling I have PCI slots and not AGP??


Edited by - leonhart on 15-11-2003 21:38:04

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God I am good!!

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Evidently not at spelling though. Jeez, you, Bob3terd, Wolf and 666Heretic should team up as the "bottom set of english" crew. You could try to solve a case or something, then get bored and decide just to play games instead.



"it has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now"

you're lucky. u do have an AGP slot, 4x. your board is the KT-133 VIA chipset, good & reliable, getting on a bit now though. you can bang a fairly decent card in there no probs, apart from cooling, you might be a bit cramped depending on your case. disable the shared memory in ur BIOS when u get a new card and away u go. mind u uv got a 32mb vga chipset in there, that's sufficient for most ordinary purposes, but it's lame for most games now. and for ur reference, here's your specs

u can put up to a decent Athlon in there, i don't know what uv got in now. don't try flashing the bios, HP/Compaq lock em. shame cos if they didnt u could update the bios and support a faster processor (assuming uv got the 5000/5000A) but its an oem board see? made by someone else for Compaq to tie in with Compaqs production run for that model, so it would only suit a certain range of processor speed Compaq had in for that period. so if u want to upgrade ur forced into buying a later model! anyway u can put a new VGA card in no worries and u could put a new sound card in too as its only AC97 audio (again disable in BIOS) and u could shove a bit more memory in too, but if yer folks are getting u a new one then don't bother. Compaq's are toss, technicians hate them because they're really difficult to work on, any specific parts are ridiculously expensive if u can't use generic/third party, and they aren't such good pcs anyway, the basic components are the same as lots of others but u pay over the odds for the Compaq name. make sure they get u a proper computer, or get the components and build it urself, u'll learn loads about pcs that way!

@Arch, lol that's very apt, but i think bob3terd's beyond even that now "hs engshl si o vry bd espeshly wen hs ritng bout the irsh ari fors" so he's bound to become a copper or a salesman or something like that.



Edited by - Tawakalna on 16-11-2003 00:30:47

Damn arcon, no need to act smart. It gets rather old after a while you know. It must be very nice for you to be able to comment on everybody on everything, or rather annoying.

And for your info, I write perfect English (straight As from 1st grade), prob is that sometimes I suck at typing (mostly when I am typing way to fast)


@Taw

Thanks m8, I really appreciate all your help, don’t know how to repay you , probably could not be able to upgrade my PC without your help and help from all others that had an input. Thank you all !!

no problem

its cool, its cool. just having some fun you know


"it has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now"

Darn it, I was planning to light a forest fire, oh well guess you can keep your cool m8