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orangebelly

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November 17th, 2006 21:00

DImension Videocard upgrrade

How do I identify what type of video card slot that is on my motherboard.  I have a dimension 4100 and got a Geforce 7300GT AGP8x and it won't.  I had thought I had the right slot but now realize it might be AGP4 or 2.  How do I check that?  THanks.
  • Dale Nihiser

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    Posted November 17th, 2006 22:00

    orangebelly
     
    Your system specs are here:
     
     
    The 7300 agp 8x is backward compatible to agp 4x. 
     
    Good Luck
     
    Dale
     
    Dimension 4100
    866Mhz Pent III----->1.2GHz Tualatin Cele----->1.6GHz
    LinLin 370 socket adapter (Geekverter)
    Intel A10 Bios
    256 Mb SDRAM 133Mhz fsb
    Ati Radeon 7500 64 Mb DDR Ram
    SoundBlaster Live Value
    Compaq MV 540 15" CRT
    30Gb Seagate 7200rpm HD
    D-Link 524 Wireless Router
    Win XP SP2 (all updates)
    BenQ DVDROM
    No Name CDROM
  • SR45

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    Posted November 17th, 2006 22:00

    OK Orange, did you notice that the card needs a power cable connected to the back of that card  ?  Did you get a molex Y cable to connect it to or did the card retail box come with one that you can connect it to a power connector near by  ?
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    Posted November 18th, 2006 00:00

    You can also get the VGA card information by running powerleap's upgrade configurator ( www.powerleap.com) - it shows quite a bit of detail.
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    Posted November 27th, 2006 14:00

    Thanks all for the help.  I am still unable to get the card to work.  What I have done is get a video card not compatible with my computer.  Now I need to find a video card that is compatible.  So here are the questions.
     
    Specs for agp on my computer are 4x but the max information is 32bit.  It seems most video cards that are AGP 4x are 64 bit.  So if my computer only supports 32 bit memory interface vid cards that are AGP 4x then that is the best card I can purchase.  Everything has to be focused around the 32 bit memory interface right?
     
    Thanks again for the help everyone.