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November 3rd, 2003 22:00
Intel Processor to AGP Controller
Yes, I have returned. I've been trying to take the advice of a Dell tech for the past few days and it's just useless. The only thing that they know how to do is copy and paste general, vague, non-specific instructions that never resolve the problem. Hopefully I can resolve this with you guys.
Perhaps you read my other thread, perhaps not: my video card is performing very poorly. Very slow refresh rates (scrolling is an ordeal), choppy graphics, inability to run most modern programs and games (as if I had an obsolete graphics card), inability to go higher than 1024x768 at high resolution, inability to select the res. choice of 1152x864 which I used prior to the problems debut, inability of DirectX to recognise my card, its brand, its memory, etc., yadda yadda yadda.
I have tried formatting, reinstalling XP, installing drivers, installing chipsets, etc. to no avail. My problem persists through all of this troubleshooting.
But one thing stands out to me as a possible source of my troubles. In my Device Manager, my Intel Processor to AGP Controller has a "!" and an erro Code 12 which reads, "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12. If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system." I have tried following the instructions I receive when I click the troubleshoot button to free up some resources, but they don't work.
How do I deal with a Code 12, and is this a logical explanation for my video problems?
Thank you.
Sodfather
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November 4th, 2003 20:00
musbou
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November 5th, 2003 00:00
lordzod
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November 5th, 2003 11:00
a "bump" is just a post to bring back the msg to the top of the board list where it will be seen by more people as opposed to sitting on the later pages.
Sorry I can't help your problem. After a format/reinstall of all drivers I'm out of ideas on that one.
Sodfather
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November 5th, 2003 20:00
Can anyone else tell me what to do about this "Code 12?" How do I switch the COntroller's resources when it is not even using any? I'd have to enable its usage of resources rather than switch them. :(
DELL-Chris M
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November 6th, 2003 13:00
Here is something to try. Open the case and remove cards except the video card. Power on. Do you still have the same Code 12?
Sodfather
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November 6th, 2003 23:00
I...Have...Done it.
Allow me a moment to bask in teh glory of normal scrolling refresh rates - I have not seen such a thing in three months. :wets his pants: I loooooovvveee it.
Okay. This is what I did. I realise that in my Device Manager I have no Display Devices. So, naturally, I'm like, "What the heck?" After all these months of crazy experiments, what else do I do but go into good ol' Control Panel > Display > Settings > Adapter. And what do I see? VgaSave..Nothing new, I've seen it there before.
But wait - there is a tiny drop-down box at the bottom that has some choices in it, including System and Automatic. Hmm...In DirectX Diagnostics, it showed that I was usng the driver vga.dll...Sounds like a "System" driver to me. So was this System in the CP just a coincidence? I think not.
So what else do I do but switch it from System to Automatic, having no idea that Automatic would then lead to the detection of my video card and from there on eternal bliss! :)
I apologise for the over-the-top drama, but this is so great. A great burden has been liften from my shoulders. How VgaSave came to create its own totalitarian VGA government on my PC, I have no idea - but it is over.
Thank you all for your help anyway - and no thanks at all to the on-line and telephone techs at Dell, who have been out-troubleshooted by me, a relatively inexperienced newb in computers.
Wrenda
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November 7th, 2003 16:00
Sodfather wrote:
" no thanks at all to the on-line and telephone techs at Dell, who have been out-troubleshooted by me, a relatively inexperienced newb in computers."
You can now proudly jump up a notch and loose your "newb" title. We've all been there at one time or another (having dealt with the frustrations of online or phone tech support. Makes you want to call them back and tell them how you really solved the problem, doesn't it.
Appreciate the fact that you took the time to post your results, so that it may help others in the same predicament.
Congratulations on a job well done.