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Compaq Deskpro graphics card
Compaq Deskpro graphics card.
To my knowledge. I don't have a graphics card. So, should the Integrated Video be enabled in the bios? The Driver is an Intel(R) 810 Chipset Graphics Driver (DC133) Especially, If I use the graphics for dos? Thank for any info on this. Greg R |
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"Greg R" wrote in message ... Compaq Deskpro graphics card. To my knowledge. I don't have a graphics card. So, should the Integrated Video be enabled in the bios? The Driver is an Intel(R) 810 Chipset Graphics Driver (DC133) Especially, If I use the graphics for dos? Thank for any info on this. Greg R : your monitor plugs into your "graphics" card... if the "integrated video" is disabled , then you are not using the "onboard" graphics card ...you are using a card that was added after the fact(and probably a better quality card then the onboard) |
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As Haggis indicates, the situation you describe does not compute. If
"Integrated Video" is not already enabled, and you have no additional graphics card, you have no video at all. One of those conditions must not be as you describe. Either Integrated Video is already enabled or you have an additional graphics card. Nothing in all this is going to particularly affect the way DOS behaves. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Greg R" wrote in message ... Compaq Deskpro graphics card. To my knowledge. I don't have a graphics card. So, should the Integrated Video be enabled in the bios? The Driver is an Intel(R) 810 Chipset Graphics Driver (DC133) Especially, If I use the graphics for dos? Thank for any info on this. Greg R |
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:08:59 -0800, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote: As Haggis indicates, the situation you describe does not compute. If "Integrated Video" is not already enabled, and you have no additional graphics card, you have no video at all. One of those conditions must not be as you describe. Either Integrated Video is already enabled or you have an additional graphics card. Nothing in all this is going to particularly affect the way DOS behaves. Then this Compaq is strange. I am getting video or I would not be typing it on here. Next time I open that case, to put a hard drive in on I am waiting on. I will look to see if this is one big combo card that plugins to the mother board. On the back of the tower at the top it has (Not in necessarily order) Power supply plug-in Two usb 1.1 slots Two serial ports A ps2 port for the Mouse A ps2 port for the keyboard A monitor plug-in mic, line in, earphone, misc jack. Printer Port At the bottom Other pci /isa slots I think I ended up getting a Compaq computer sold to major company. Which was donated to the local hospital. Which then the donated to a place where my mother works and they gave it me. (I help out with at her workplace as a volunteer) Greg R |
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Well, Compaq is definitely a word that throws any discussion of "normal"
into the winds, s. You're saying that your monitor connection is *not* in the area of PCI/ISA slots? If so, then its onboard video. Another indicator is to look at your RAM count on the General tab of System Properties. Onboard video usually steals part of the system RAM. Is your RAM count not a round number that one would expect for RAM? (Most RAM counts for your era machine will be multiples of 32.) Hey, all I can say is that on every machine I've seen, "Integrated Video" simply refers to whether to use Onboard video or not. It may very well be, though, that the setting is irrelevant, that if you plug in a monitor there, it will work. I still seriously doubt that the setting will affect video behavior while in DOS, but the only real answers, if available, will be found in the motherboard documentation. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Greg R" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:08:59 -0800, "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: As Haggis indicates, the situation you describe does not compute. If "Integrated Video" is not already enabled, and you have no additional graphics card, you have no video at all. One of those conditions must not be as you describe. Either Integrated Video is already enabled or you have an additional graphics card. Nothing in all this is going to particularly affect the way DOS behaves. Then this Compaq is strange. I am getting video or I would not be typing it on here. Next time I open that case, to put a hard drive in on I am waiting on. I will look to see if this is one big combo card that plugins to the mother board. On the back of the tower at the top it has (Not in necessarily order) Power supply plug-in Two usb 1.1 slots Two serial ports A ps2 port for the Mouse A ps2 port for the keyboard A monitor plug-in mic, line in, earphone, misc jack. Printer Port At the bottom Other pci /isa slots I think I ended up getting a Compaq computer sold to major company. Which was donated to the local hospital. Which then the donated to a place where my mother works and they gave it me. (I help out with at her workplace as a volunteer) Greg R |
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:31:48 -0800, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote: You're saying that your monitor connection is *not* in the area of PCI/ISA slots? Correct. Greg R |
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It say I have only 63.0 MB of ram.
Windows Dos mem says total is 64,512K Greg R |
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Based on your last two replies, you have integrated video.
-- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "Greg R" wrote in message ... It say I have only 63.0 MB of ram. Windows Dos mem says total is 64,512K Greg R |
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You have integrated video that's stealing one MB or RAM from the system.
One MB of RAM for a video adapter is really puny. Have you tried enabling the Integrated Video setting in BIOS? Perhaps it will allocate more RAM to video. Will improve video, DOS or no DOS. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Greg R" wrote in message ... It say I have only 63.0 MB of ram. Windows Dos mem says total is 64,512K Greg R |
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"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in news:uBoR#HaNFHA.3492
@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl: You have integrated video that's stealing one MB or RAM from the system. One MB of RAM for a video adapter is really puny. Have you tried enabling the Integrated Video setting in BIOS? Perhaps it will allocate more RAM to video. Will improve video, DOS or no DOS. I think if there's no video card installed, the onboard adapter works no matter how you have it set. I've run into the same situation. Otherwise, you'd be in a real mess with no way to see to turn it back on. -- --- A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. --- |
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