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Solve : Can I get a new video card?? |
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Answer» My Bad You have a motherboard with Intel 865G chipset.Track, where is the AGP slot? I don't see it in that image he posted, and I don't believe he has one. IBM, until recently has made whole PC's by themselves. This means that they manufactured pretty much every piece of that PC. They moddled each part onto the inside of the case as they saw fit. The wierdest thing that came out of this were the motherboards - http://www.westworldcomputers.com/images/A20/systemboard/12P3288.gif Because they werent mass producing these motherboards for seperate purchases, the motherboards only the design on the PC they were building. Not only is IBM's hardware "deformed" but also, there is no markup of it anywhere. Since the motherboards were specially made, they are not registered on any motherboard database and so werent the PCs themselves. I have searched for IBM components before and found little results, even on Wikipedia. IBM's site no longer features anything but servers but some TIME.. In wich case, i cant make head or tails of what i see in the picture. The motherboard extends to more than one surface and so the PCI slots are vertical and not horizontal as in all PCs. There is no sign of the CPU (wich dosent make much sense to exsist in an IBM PC) and since there is no order to the way the PC is put together in the case, there is little i can understand from that picture. However sure i may be that ur PC is build with the Intel 865G chipset, what i can see from the "Everest" diagnostic, the picture, and the fact that IBM creates their motherboards to their liking (and so even though every other 865G motherboard has an AGP slot, this one might not), that u do NOT have an AGP slot. The manufacturer can TAKE OUT anything they want, its putting stuff in that is hard because the chipset dosent support. At first i thought the only way to rule out the AGP slot, was if we were looking at the 865G's evil step brother, the 865GV wich has all the exact same features but WITHOUT an AGP slot, but since IBM is it's own god, who knows what mosters it could cook up.. This is what my AGP system looks like: [ System Slots / PCI 1 ] System Slot Properties: Slot Designation PCI 1 Type PCI Usage Empty Data Bus Width 32-bit Length Short [ System Slots / PCI 2 ] System Slot Properties: Slot Designation PCI 2 Type PCI Usage Empty Data Bus Width 32-bit Length Short [ System Slots / PCI 3 ] System Slot Properties: Slot Designation PCI 3 Type PCI Usage Empty Data Bus Width 32-bit Length Short [ System Slots / AGP ] System Slot Properties: Slot Designation AGP Usage In Use Data Bus Width 32-bit Length Short As u can see, there is mention of the AGP slot. The ONLY thing that would have me think that u DO have an AGP slot is this: Expansion Capabilities PCI, AGP, USB That is what MY PC says.. same as urs. So now, my theory is that u do NOT have an AGP slot, but Everest thinks u do, because of the chipset that is supposed to have it. Even though this makes little sense to me, its all i have for now. If u could, take out the SMC wireless adaptor, wich is on the 1st or 2nd PCI slot and take a picture of the inside again (making sure to put aside any cable blocking the view of the "wall mounted" expansion slots) and a picture of the case from the outside.This is kind of like the philosophical debate about how many teeth a horse has without anyone just looking in the horse's mouth. If this is an IBM, then what is the machine ID #? It is on the case AND in the BIOS (F1 at boot)? It is a 7 digit displayed as xxxx-xxx. Then we can figure out what we are dealing with. |
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