On Monday 11 October 2004 06:56 am, [email protected] wrote:
I have heard that moving them to a new <pci?> slot helps;won't do much good with an agp video card, tho'...
It can help in some cases, but physically there's no difference. If you've changed cards, sometimes it's necessary to clear the BIOS information for the old card, and sometimes this is easier if you move cards around, but there are better ways to handle that.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Monday 11 October 2004 06:56 am, [email protected] wrote:
I have heard that moving them to a new <pci?> slot helps;won't do much good with an agp video card, tho'...
It can help in some cases, but physically there's no difference. If you've changed cards, sometimes it's necessary to clear the BIOS information for the old card, and sometimes this is easier if you move cards around, but there are better ways to handle that.
Clear the BIOS information? Not really an accurate statement. It's not like there is a button to push and this happens. Most motherboards will scan for the video card on each boot. On the rare occurance that it doesn't, you just enter the config screen of the BIOS (f1 or other combo) and the card will get scanned. Save and exit. Really the BIOS only looks to see that there is a card, not what kind or its parameters. At most only its location.
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