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Expansion card?
I have a new HP Pavilion a1020n computer. Dont like it, but I am stuck
with it. No agp slot and no pci express either. Is there a card that will let me use an agp video card in a pci slot? Also is there a card that will let me add an ide hard drive? The HP has ATA drive installed and I want to use ide hdd from my old computer? Any work arounds. The only pci video card is only 128 meg memory. Also, how to disable on board video card permanently to add video card? Tnx in advance. |
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If both your ide controllers have two devices each already, you can get a
pci ide controller for another drive. An AGP slot is a faster buss than pci so I think you'd be better off just getting the best pci graphic card you can. On some systems disabling the onboard graphic can be tricky, but look in the bios for a pci/onboard choice and change it "Jim Marlin" wrote in message ... I have a new HP Pavilion a1020n computer. Dont like it, but I am stuck with it. No agp slot and no pci express either. Is there a card that will let me use an agp video card in a pci slot? Also is there a card that will let me add an ide hard drive? The HP has ATA drive installed and I want to use ide hdd from my old computer? Any work arounds. The only pci video card is only 128 meg memory. Also, how to disable on board video card permanently to add video card? Tnx in advance. |
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"Jim Marlin" wrote in message
... I have a new HP Pavilion a1020n computer. Dont like it, but I am stuck with it. No agp slot and no pci express either. Is there a card that will let me use an agp video card in a pci slot? Also is there a card that will let me add an ide hard drive? The HP has ATA drive installed and I want to use ide hdd from my old computer? Any work arounds. The only pci video card is only 128 meg memory. Also, how to disable on board video card permanently to add video card? Tnx in advance. I picked up a USB 2.0 Drive Kit (External drive enclosure) at my local Walmart store for $40 yesterday during some kind of local discount promotion. I wanted to recover some data stored on some older IDE drives with out having to open the chassis and unplug something else. So far I have tested it with older IDE drives from three different manufacturers and all three worked just fine. Windows XP found them on the first try and made them available for use. You can read about the products the company sells at www.adstech.com. I noticed that they offer the same case in Fiberwire and one that has both USB and Fiberwire ports. The drive case has a front panel that can be removed if you want to install an IDE DVD or CD drive. Just make sure the drive fits as some DVD/RW drives are quite long and space might be a little tight when using them. You won't be able to boot from the drive unless your BIOS supports booting from USB but I expect that is not something most people would want to mess with anyway. I was able to recover data on NTSF and FAT formatted IDE drives. The only thing I had to change on a drive or two was to make sure the drives were set up as a drive 1 or single drive configuration and not drive 2 or using the drive select option. The IDE to USB interface built into the enclosure took care of the rest. |
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On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 17:21:49 -0500, Jim Marlin
wrote: I have a new HP Pavilion a1020n computer. Dont like it, but I am stuck with it. No agp slot and no pci express either. Is there a card that will let me use an agp video card in a pci slot? No. Are you trying to game with it? The onboard video should be sufficient for typical 2D uses, including DVD, etc. If you are in need of gaming-level performance, your choices are quite limited but there are some (faster but not modern performance level) cards out there. Also is there a card that will let me add an ide hard drive? The HP has ATA drive installed and I want to use ide hdd from my old computer? Doesn't it have 2 IDE channels? If so it supports 4 devices, you should be able to simply add the old drive and confirm it's detected OK in the bios... then do what you will with it. Any work arounds. The only pci video card is only 128 meg memory. The 128MB of memory isn't as big a limitation as the GPU or that it's running on the PCI bus. There's no magic solution here if you need top-notch gaming performance, you'd just have to bite the bullet and replace more major parts of the system like the motherboard (and then case, etc, if a replacement won't just drop-into that system... and quite possibly the power supply too, as what they included to power an all-integrated system is fairly likely to not be sufficient for a higher-end video card. Also, how to disable on board video card permanently to add video card? I'm not familiar with that model system, but presuming it's semi-modern, you'd either have a bios setting or you'd only set the bios to use the PCI card as the primary display adapter, then if the original is still showing up in (Windows' Device Manager?) then you'd disable it there. |
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