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echo: nthelp
to: Tony Ingenoso
from: Frank Haber
date: 2005-02-03 16:13:18
subject: Re: If one adds a graphics card how to override motherboard card?

From: "Frank Haber" 

And if you don't deliberately disable the OBV in Device Manager, you'll
still be wasting the shared memory the video uses.

Remember my night-and-day usability improvement when I went from P100 to
P166MMX, years ago?  I just hit a slightly more up-to-date version of that
epiphany.  A customer gave me a totally FU bottom-feeder Dell - a Cel 466
ferchissake.  The HD was toast, so I threw in an 80GB and all the PC2100
sticks I had, amounting to a magnificent 256MB.  I then installed a spare
XP, just to have something to run Ghost, Acronis, and diagnostics on.  Much
to my surprise, XP ran, fairly slowly, out of the box.

No AGP.  Let's hit the junkbox and see what I have.  Aha, Rage 128 32MB PCI
from a server.  Slapped it in, autoinstalled RTM driver, disabled onboard.
What a difference.  This is now, wait for it, a totally usable machine for
web browsing and **Office 2003**, as long as you're very careful to run one
app at a time, and not try to offend God and man by doing an audio encode
or similar ridiculous thing on it.

Of course the GUI is gelded down to a 2000 lookalike, fast user switching
is disabled, etc. The $20 video card made a big difference.

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