Hey guys, before people say why do you have an MDG, it was a free computer, and free is free, I can use it for whatever. Now the problem I am having is that it's a POS, literally.
[B]Specs[/B]
P4 3.0GHZ
500 MB RAM
Intel Motherboard
Intel Integrated Graphics card (Intel 845G, supported by all but Windows 7)
[B]Problem[/B]
The screen shivers when you move the mouse, if you stop moving the mouse it stops, everything is the way it should be. Although I've gotten it down to a minimum, it's still annoying as shit.
[B]Things I have tried[/B]
- Installed various O/S : XP, VISTA, 7. Formatted each time.
- Updated Graphics Driver, although it improves it, it does not fix it.
- I've tried both an LG LCD monitor and a CRT monitor, both work flawlessy on other computers. This computer does not recognize the LCD and labels it "Generic PnP monitor".
- Tweaked BIOS, tried raising buffer to 8MB, various settings 64MB, 128MB, 256MB. There isn't many options for the BIOS, also nothing is noticeable until you hit the windows loading screen
- Reset BIOS
- Changed refresh rates, resolutions. I can get it to an extra high resolution, but seems to work best at lower resolutions.
- There is no slot for an external graphics card, it's that basic of a mobo, although it has a kick ass fan, ooooh.
- There is nothing that could give it that electrostatic crap, there is nothing around right now
Other than that, the computer works awesome for what it is. I don't think it did this before I owned it, although the previous owner wouldn't remember anyways.
Any suggestions, other than scrapping it? I'd like to keep it if I could get it working right
You said it didn't have a port for a third party graphics, but that can't be true. There's a good chance it doesn't have PCI-E and a VERY slim chance it doesn't have AGP, but it will have PCI and possibly (god forbid) ISA. What model is it? I might be able to look it up for you.
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Intel 8245G Processor
Standard VGA Graphics Adapter
It says it has PCI Bridge - 244E
I'm not a graphics card guru, I had a Radeon 9000 that I was going to put into it, it's about 6 inches long, two slots open, all were about 4 inches long. You guys can probably figure out whether its PCI or AGP. It's a generic old school mother board
Last night it wasn't bad, good enough that I could set it up for networking, this morning I went up to it, and took the screen saver off, and it was shaking bad, bad enough that I knew it was shaking worse than the night before.
That could be because of speakers, but like I said, it was shaking when it was sitting by its lonesome self with nothing around it.
Onboard graphics might have gotten busted. Most likely thats the reason you got it for free.
I got it for free because some people can't format.
But it wouldn't surprise me if the onboard was dying
Does it look like any of these?
[IMG]http://filebox.me/files/v3aye6mcp_motherboard.gif[/IMG]
or these
[img]http://www.viperlair.com/articles/editorials/pcie/images/pci_express_001.JPG[/img]
Measured it, it's 3.5 inches long. Looks like the ones in the main pic, but I could be wrong due to scaling of the pic.
Like I said, it wouldn't fit a Radeon in there
Thanks for replying.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;19637238]Does it look like any of these?
[IMG]http://filebox.me/files/v3aye6mcp_motherboard.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Thats a P3 mobo.
Anyway can we have a picture of the mobo and if all goes wrong get a PCI card.
Sorry for size of pics
[IMG]http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i230/wutanggrenade/0115001236.jpg[/IMG]
We only need the first one, and you have regular PCI. You can see where they would have put AGP in the higher model motherboard.
Well I'm guessing I have two options
1. mobo
2. PCI graphics card
I'll wait and see what comes around first
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