Re: BTW, Happy Independence Day for Americans here!

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:48:32 GMT, Abraham Evangelista
<daken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:46:51 -0400, Galen <galen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So, my latest project was to install a video card.
I went with the GeForce 5200 FX, and finally got
it up an running - it's no better than the intel video chipset
I started with. (Although it does have s-vid out.)

The 5000 series is marginal at best for HD stuff. A lower end 7000 or
8000 series card would have been a better choice. IIRC, the 8500 has
onboard h.264 acceleration which makes it a great choice for an anime
fan on a budget.
I may decide to put the Ge 5200 on an older machine
that's currently using a Radeon 7200 -- or is that pointless?
And then I suppose I could get a Ge8500 or ...
does the PS3 have codec support? Can it play files
off a network drive? I got one of those "My Book World" drives
that plugs into the router with Gigabit ethernet cable, but
will a PS3 accept the TCP/IP stream and play it?
Does the Blu-Ray drive also play DVDs? DVD +/- R, CD-R?
I could do my own research, but the back porch needs a
poison control cabinet.


Now, as before, the CPU is overloaded when I try
to play any files greater than 1024. I thought the
card wasn't supposed to rely on the CPU?

For 3d graphics, yes. For video? Not as much. Remind me again. What
kinda CPU are you running?
P4 2.53 Ghz.

On the plus side, my power supply fan was stalling
out, and I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't spent
all that time figuring out why XP wouldn't see the
new card even though the computer used it just
fine until the moment Windows launched. Turns
out replacing a power supply fan is easy.

Hot to hot, black to black. Tape it up and you're done. :-)

But is this the power supply that came with the PC? If it's a name
brand unit, you probably made the right decision. But if it's a
whitebox, or something that has a standard ATX case, it might not be a
bad idea to just replace the unit completely. If your supply was
already marginal enough to be causing problems within windows, chances
are at least some of the components in it (capacitors anyone?) are on
their last legs.
The problem with windows was that XP was seeing both the card
and the onboard chipset; the BIOS respected my choice of the
card, but Windows assumed I was running 2 monitors, and put
the desktop on the connection I wasn't using. Therefore, when
XP launched, the monitor went black. I had to connect 2 monitors
before XP would allow me to reconfigure for using only one.

But it took several cycles to figure that out, and the fan wasn't
always starting when the computer did - although it did get
too hot to touch. So I replaced it. The new fan just plugs into
one of the output leads that otherwise goes to a drive.


-Galen
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