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On Saturday 05 July 2003 07:34 pm, you wrote:
> Friends of mine brought me a computer and wanted to see if I could
> figure out why it wasn't geting more than basic colors. It runs win95,
> she got it from her boss at work when they got new puters for the
> office. It has a VGA adapter, no video card inside. It also has two
> motherboards. One on the bottom and then a half board on top. The top
> board holds the ethernet cards and a modem. It only has 32 mg of
> memory. It runs fine but I have no idea how to get a video card in
> there. Do they make short cards. It has PCI slots (2) avail. How hard
> will it be to find one, if there is such a creature? They are trying
> to get is set up for her sister who has no puter and can't afford one.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Maureen
It sounds like the video hardware is "hard-wired" to the motherboard, which is
becoming more and more popular. You can still find PCI video cards
(Wal-Mart, for example), but you may need to find a way to disable the
on-board video in BIOS.
SWB
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