Re: Well, that's different... (Dim2400 built in video behavior with add-in PCI card...)
- From: Ogden Johnson III <oj3usmc@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 07:36:15 -0400
"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: William R. Walsh
I found an ATI Rage 128 Ultra4X Pro PCI card kicking around and decided to
put it into my newfound Dimension 2400. It came right up and worked
like it should, but I was surprised to see that Windows XP was only reporting 504MB
of memory installed in the system.
A visit to the Device Manager showed a "display adapter" with drivers that
were not installed. On a whim, I decided to install the Intel 845 graphics
drivers--and they worked. The unknown display adapter disappeared. Now the
Display control panel acts as though the Intel video could be used for a
second monitor.
I've never seen that before. I'm used to onboard video systems turning
themselves off or going to "sleep" when an add-in card is detected. This one
does not appear to do that--there is no choice to turn it off in Dell setup
(only "auto" or "onboard" may be selected) and it is still siphoning off
some memory.
Pretty wild...I think I'm going to get a second monitor over here and try
it.
It will work. That's why I responded to a previous post where they were
having problems that you sometimes need to have a monitor plugged into
both to set it up properly.
VVVVeeeerrrryyyy IIIInnnntttteeeerrrreeeessssttttiiiinnnngggg
{apologies to Arte Johnson/Laugh-In}. When I bought my D4400, I
got it with the onboard video, since I already had a surplus,
reasonably high-end (for 2001) video card to install. I, too,
found that installation of the new card did not automagically
turn off the onboard video, and, after a few hair-pulling
sessions in bios set-up, found there was no way to turn it off.
Since the only manifestation was the second, onboard "monitor"
showing up when I accessed the "Display Properties | Settings"
screen, and the system always behaved as if the Diamond Stealth
card and the monitor attached to it were its only video, I never
worried about it. I never did do anything fancy with the 4400
that turned up the problem(s) William Walsh is experiencing, but
then I'm a "plain vanilla" kind of PC user.
At the now defunct antique shop I worked at until Dec, the owners
bought a second hand 2400. I'm inheriting it, now that it is
surplus. Mebbe when I get it I'll do a little pooking around.
Or mebbe not, on the "sleeping dogs" theory. I do wonder though,
since apparently the 2400 and 4400 both manifested this, whether
the 8400 did also, thus making it a generational quirk.
--
OJ III
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