Newbie Problems With MyGica A680B on Win XP

[whitedavidp]

No worries, Steeb. I am not angry at all. I hope I did not write anything to come off that way. Instead, I was thanking you and admitting that I obviously did not try hard enough.

[Reddwarf]

Thanks. It did seem to run Win7 just fine. I guess I wasn't clear enough... What did not run fine was Win7 Media Center. Actually that was the whole reason I bothered with Win7 at all. I saw it on a friend's new computer, tried my HDTV Stick in it, and it seemed to work great. I did not test extensively on the friend's computer. But when I did on my computer, there just seems inadequate horsepower to do the job. I would throw more RAM at this except that the system is at max capacity already. I may have to break down and build/buy a dedicated PC for this that is newer in all respects.

Why bother with Win7 MC if you are going to use NPVR? It is far better that MC. Do you really mean that the mainboard is THAT old that is have neither AGP not PCIe?

[whitedavidp]

I am not talking PCIe or anything like that. This is plain, old PCI. According to WikiPedia, AGP came into being in 1996 or so. Dell says this computer was shipped in 8/2005. A real dinosaur!

[Reddwarf]

I am not talking PCIe or anything like that. This is plain, old PCI. According to WikiPedia, AGP came into being in 1996 or so. Dell says this computer was shipped in 8/2005. A real dinosaur!

Shame on you, you shouldn't go' stealing motherboards from museums

Seriously, there are usb graphic adapters that claim to be able to run 1080p, but I'v never tested one. It might be worth a shot if you can buy one with the option to return it.

[steeb]

No worries, Steeb. I am not angry at all. I hope I did not write anything to come off that way. Instead, I was thanking you and admitting that I obviously did not try hard enough.

Hiya whitedavidp,

no you did not come off angry in any way to clear that up. I was hoping tha you were not angry at me for butting in!

I still go back to previous post where I think that you are trying to do everything tooooo fast.

You will get this sorted with all the help and assitance found here on this forum. And Reddwarf is brilliant at this kind of stuff. But also lest I forget so are loads of others. But not me as a bit busy at the moment!

cheers

steeb

[bgowland]

I am not talking PCIe or anything like that. This is plain, old PCI. According to WikiPedia, AGP came into being in 1996 or so. Dell says this computer was shipped in 8/2005. A real dinosaur!

Hmmm, Wikipedia...that's all I'm going to say.

Dell have always been selective when it comes to paring down hardware to provide 'budget' machines - AGP was around when your machine was shipped. I built my rig early-mid 2005 (even more of a dinosaur than yours) and the Intel mobo has an AGP slot. Dell just liked to sell cheap "on-board everything" machines in those days (still do I expect).

Cheers,
Brian

[mvallevand]

If it is a case of the wiki not up to scratch then ideas/improvements forthcoming please perhaps on the wiki threads.

The wiki is not up to scratch when it comes to the remote especially in highlighting differences between MCE/Hauppauge/NMT remotes, plus it is missing the 2.3.6 changes.

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[Reddwarf]

Dell have always been selective when it comes to paring down hardware to provide 'budget' machines - AGP was around when your machine was shipped. I built my rig early-mid 2005 (even more of a dinosaur than yours) and the Intel mobo has an AGP slot. Dell just liked to sell cheap "on-board everything" machines in those days (still do I expect).

Cheers,
Brian

Yeah, don't remind me, I'v spent hours tearing my hair out over Dell computers, but the worst was Compaq, yiark

[johnsonx42]

I am not talking PCIe or anything like that. This is plain, old PCI. According to WikiPedia, AGP came into being in 1996 or so. Dell says this computer was shipped in 8/2005. A real dinosaur!

Around that time Dell in particular shipped a lot of systems with on-board video and no AGP slot. Most of their boards are built to their specs, and they could save a few pennies by leaving out the AGP slot altogether... if they saved 50 cents on a million mainboards, that's $500,000.00.

There are plenty of modern PCI video cards available; unfortunately they're quite a bit more expensive than their equivalent PCIe brethren. If you don't mind dropping $35 on a refurb card that's a couple of years old, this would probably work pretty well: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814129195

for something new and more modern: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814500228

I like to stick with AMD/ATI myself, but now we're up to $85: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814131436

[whitedavidp]

Wow! I did not believe there would be so many choices. The card I have reports 256M and some of these offer no more than that. Yet, they look much more mean and capable than what I have now. What would I be getting that improves over what I have if the memory is the same (obviously, more memory would be good)? Thanks