- Oct 15, 2018
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I saw a post/thread like this on here but I need a backwards compatible reply haha--- what I mean is, I'm ignorant to what I need to know to make an upgrade happen. I noticed people were talking about power and bios updates etc. I was too afraid to get the BIOS updates because they were glitchy when Windows XP or something I read and they weren't logoed.
As for the reason I want to upgrade/replace the video card, I believe there's an issue with the video card. There's a green pixelated flickering vertical stripe down the center of the screen whenever there's a black screen and my desktop image has the traditional clouds picture and the white areas on the clouds are all pixelated as well and flickering. Plus a video game we're playing crashes whenever I open inventory and whenever I edit the appearance of my character and both of those screens have a 3D image so I don't know if the video card has anything to do with that.
I'm using Windows XP but I don't have a Windows XP boot disk nor do I have a Windows XP format desk so if anything goes wrong changing the video card, I won't have a way to install Windows XP again. (For the record I have had to reformat a computer before when it refused any and all video card I tried in it.)
I do have a question pertaining to changing/testing if the trouble is with the video card. I want to hook my monitor up to the motherboards video VGA port. Do I have to remove the video card before I plug my monitor into the motherboard VGA port? Do I have to turn off or disable the video card anywhere on the computer like a bios or anything like that before attempting to hookup the monitor to the motherboard VGA?
If I have to remove the information from somewhere on the computer to disabled the video card to enable the motherboard video option, is there a way for me to save the information I'm removing onto a flash drive so I can reverse the process if I need or want to? (I don't have internet on my computers so I can't just download information I need as easily as most people can.)
I feel like I had one more question but I can't remember what it is at the moment.
As for the reason I want to upgrade/replace the video card, I believe there's an issue with the video card. There's a green pixelated flickering vertical stripe down the center of the screen whenever there's a black screen and my desktop image has the traditional clouds picture and the white areas on the clouds are all pixelated as well and flickering. Plus a video game we're playing crashes whenever I open inventory and whenever I edit the appearance of my character and both of those screens have a 3D image so I don't know if the video card has anything to do with that.
I'm using Windows XP but I don't have a Windows XP boot disk nor do I have a Windows XP format desk so if anything goes wrong changing the video card, I won't have a way to install Windows XP again. (For the record I have had to reformat a computer before when it refused any and all video card I tried in it.)
I do have a question pertaining to changing/testing if the trouble is with the video card. I want to hook my monitor up to the motherboards video VGA port. Do I have to remove the video card before I plug my monitor into the motherboard VGA port? Do I have to turn off or disable the video card anywhere on the computer like a bios or anything like that before attempting to hookup the monitor to the motherboard VGA?
If I have to remove the information from somewhere on the computer to disabled the video card to enable the motherboard video option, is there a way for me to save the information I'm removing onto a flash drive so I can reverse the process if I need or want to? (I don't have internet on my computers so I can't just download information I need as easily as most people can.)
I feel like I had one more question but I can't remember what it is at the moment.
I promise.
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