nVidia board upgrade question

My honey has a GeForce 4, MX440 with 128MB in a 2GHz Gateway
computer (before they were bought out) which is pretty well scaled in
terms of added HD space and RAM, but it seems to scroll complex
websites and PDF docs with difficulty, choppy that is. The board is an
AGP if I recall correctly. What nVidia video board can it be replaced
with in keeping with the technology of the 2 GHz Pentium CPU?

What makes sense to get better scrolling capability? maybe even
leaving the MX440 in place?

-ed

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My honey has a GeForce 4, MX440 with 128MB in a 2GHz Gateway
computer (before they were bought out) which is pretty well scaled in
terms of added HD space and RAM, but it seems to scroll complex
websites and PDF docs with difficulty, choppy that is. The board is an
AGP if I recall correctly. What nVidia video board can it be replaced
with in keeping with the technology of the 2 GHz Pentium CPU?

What makes sense to get better scrolling capability? maybe even
leaving the MX440 in place?

It's almost certain the problem has nothing to do with the video card.

Check for things like antivirus software, or other programs that might
be running in the background (browser plug-ins etc). Try booting in
Safe Mode (if she's using Win2K/XP) and see if the problem still
exists.

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My honey has a GeForce 4, MX440 with 128MB in a 2GHz Gateway
computer (before they were bought out) which is pretty well scaled in
terms of added HD space and RAM, but it seems to scroll complex
websites and PDF docs with difficulty, choppy that is. The board is an
AGP if I recall correctly. What nVidia video board can it be replaced
with in keeping with the technology of the 2 GHz Pentium CPU?

What makes sense to get better scrolling capability? maybe even
leaving the MX440 in place?

Try downloading and installing the latest driver for that card and
OS.....which would be the 93.71's for XP with an GeForce4 MX440.

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My honey has a GeForce 4, MX440 with 128MB in a 2GHz Gateway
computer (before they were bought out) which is pretty well scaled in
terms of added HD space and RAM, but it seems to scroll complex
websites and PDF docs with difficulty, choppy that is. The board is an
AGP if I recall correctly. What nVidia video board can it be replaced
with in keeping with the technology of the 2 GHz Pentium CPU?

What makes sense to get better scrolling capability? maybe even
leaving the MX440 in place?

-ed


In addition to the other replies, look to see if your adapter is
operating in a reduced Acceleration mode. (Desktop Display Properties
Troubleshooting, if I remember from XP). Hardware failures can
manifest in reduced 2d acceleration. I've only seen this once from
another person that had a failing GPU core, and in that case newer
drivers would not install properly.

Try running DXDIAG from the run command as well. You can do a series of
tests and if even one of them fails with a known good driver, you're
looking at replacing the card.

schreef:
My honey has a GeForce 4, MX440 with 128MB in a 2GHz Gateway
computer (before they were bought out) which is pretty well scaled in
terms of added HD space and RAM, but it seems to scroll complex
websites and PDF docs with difficulty, choppy that is. The board is an
AGP if I recall correctly. What nVidia video board can it be replaced
with in keeping with the technology of the 2 GHz Pentium CPU?

What makes sense to get better scrolling capability? maybe even
leaving the MX440 in place?

You did not write whether You have installed a driver for this card. If
You haven't, XP (You did not write what OS You are using, I'll assume
XP) will take a generic driver which is very slow, then You will see
what You are describing. And if You haven't installed a driver for the
card, You may no have installed a driver for the chipset of the
motherboard as well, which is important as well.

Good luck!
Rene

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:06:12 GMT, "Augustus"
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My honey has a GeForce 4, MX440 with 128MB in a 2GHz Gateway
computer (before they were bought out) which is pretty well scaled in
terms of added HD space and RAM, but it seems to scroll complex
websites and PDF docs with difficulty, choppy that is. The board is an
AGP if I recall correctly. What nVidia video board can it be replaced
with in keeping with the technology of the 2 GHz Pentium CPU?

What makes sense to get better scrolling capability? maybe even
leaving the MX440 in place?

Try downloading and installing the latest driver for that card and
OS.....which would be the 93.71's for XP with an GeForce4 MX440.

I recently re-installed her OS and cannot recall what drivers are in
there. It's early.. I'll start it up now and examine.

It has 93.71 and scrolling a webpage (the default) is choppy. It can't
compare with my GTS 250. )

-G