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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: juanr on June 14, 2005, 06:20:36 PM

Title: Video card up grade for IBM 300PL 6862 n2u
Post by: juanr on June 14, 2005, 06:20:36 PM
Hi

I have a IBM 300PL with S3 video on board with 4 MB   I have a NVidia Gforce 2 MX400 but that video card is not for desktop. I can put in the slot. I need information for possibles video card up grade.

Thanks

Juanr
Title: Video card up grade for IBM 300PL 6862 n2u
Post by: skoota_logic on June 27, 2005, 07:26:12 AM
What do you mean by not for a desktop aslong as your pc has an agp port your fine.
Title: Video card up grade for IBM 300PL 6862 n2u
Post by: slobjones on July 08, 2005, 07:37:56 PM
[quote name=\'skoota_logic\' date=\'Jun 27 2005, 06:26 AM\']What do you mean by not for a desktop aslong as your pc has an agp port your fine.
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Well, I've got the same machine. It has an AGP slot, so I ordered an ATI Radeon 9250, got it today, went to install it -- and found that the exit hole on the case is designed for a different type of card. There's no way to plug in the socket end (the part that you connect your monitor to).

Could be the design of AGP cards has changed in the last few years since this computer was made. But I'm stuck with my 16M PCI card that is slow and incompatible with Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Title: Video card up grade for IBM 300PL 6862 n2u
Post by: slobjones on July 08, 2005, 07:39:11 PM
[quote name=\'juanr\' date=\'Jun 14 2005, 05:20 PM\']Hi

I have a IBM 300PL with S3 video on board with 4 MB   I have a NVidia Gforce 2 MX400 but that video card is not for desktop. I can put in the slot. I need information for possibles video card up grade.

Thanks

Juanr
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Juan, you're going to have to get a PCI card. See my other post.