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Hello,
My family and I have moved, and when I reconnected my PC, it shows no video signal. I switched monitors with another in the house that is presently working on another PC, that one is also dark. The hard drive seems to be reading when I power up the machine in question, so I suspect the video card has taken a dive. I removed the card (a Matrox Millenium G400) and reseated it and still no signal. I have an old S3 Virge in another machine that I'm not using which I can switch out for test purposes, but it may be time for either a new graphics card or a whole new PC.
Looking at Outpost.com I see a multitude of cards available for a wide variety of prices. They have them with 32MB through 256 MB RAM. I was looking in the middle at 128MB cards. Being incurably cheap and having no need for high end graphics applications or the latest games, I'm considering cards in the $50.00 range. For example, Outpost has several 128 MB AGP cards with the GeForce MX4000 chip which look interesting. Also, I see that SNAP supports a long list of chips so I forsee no problem finding a match, but do folks have any specific recommendations or cards to stay away from?
Also, as I said, it may be time for a new machine. I would probably buy on the low end, as the new ones are orders of magnitude above what I presently have, an AMD K6-3 450 mHz. Is there collective experience with the integrated video? Does it work with eCS 1.2?
Thanks in advance,
John Morrow
Content Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, My family and I have moved, and when I reconnected my PC, it shows no video signal. I switched monitors with another in the house that is presently working on another PC, that one is also dark. The hard drive seems to be reading when I power up the machine in question, so I suspect the video card has taken a dive. I removed the card (a Matrox Millenium G400) and reseated it and still no signal. I have an old S3 Virge in another machine that I'm not using which I can switch out for test purposes, but it may be time for either a new graphics card or a whole new PC. Looking at Outpost.com I see a multitude of cards available for a wide variety of prices. They have them with 32MB through 256 MB RAM. I was looking in the middle at 128MB cards. Being incurably cheap and having no need for high end graphics applications or the latest games, I'm considering cards in the $50.00 range. For example,
Outpost has several 128 MB AGP cards with the GeForce MX4000 chip which look interesting. Also, I see that SNAP supports a long list of chips so I forsee no problem finding a match, but do folks have any specific recommendations or cards to stay away from? Also, as I said, it may be time for a new machine. I would probably buy on the low end, as the new ones are orders of magnitude above what I presently have, an AMD K6-3 450 mHz. Is there collective experience with the integrated video? Does it work with eCS 1.2? Thanks in advance, John Morrow Atascadero, California
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