Friday, April 27, 2012

Getting a new video card and power supply?

Will I need to change any settings in BIOS? If so, which ones?



I have Vista Home Premium.|||First, change the power supply only. Make sure you get that right. Make sure that your computer boots happily into Windows Vista Home Premium.



Then, change the video card. If you're just replacing a PCI, PCI-Express, or AGP card for a faster, bigger, better model of the same connection-type, you shouldn't need to make any BIOS changes. But if you're switching from a PCI to an AGP card, you'll perhaps want to change the setting that determines whether AGP or PCI video is initialized first.|||The only reason you would have to is for 3 reasons:

1) The older card used the old ISA slots and a dedicated IRQ

2) The older card used shared memory with the mainboard and you would need to remove the memory apeture settings.

3) The old card was AGP and the new card is not and you had the BIOS setup for AGP|||you shouldn't have to change any settings there. it should just work.

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