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06-20-2006, 11:54 PM
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Points: 52.96 Donate | | | Ram And Video Card Questions
Ok...well im gonna make my lean mean free fighting machine (my crappy as dell i won in middle shcool) a little bit better. Im going to by some ram (it only came with 128MB wtf!!) and a video card (mostly just so i can set a dual monitor display & a little bit of gaming).
Well here are my problems..I pretty sure there a lot of different types of ram out there and i was wondering if there was any easy way to check what kind my PC needs....And the same with the video card...I not sure while kind of slots my MoBo has...Is there any easy way to figure this kind of stuff out??...If it helps or any one has any prior knowelge of this kind of PC, i have a dell demension 2400... |
06-21-2006, 12:03 AM
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Points: 1.94 Donate | | | There'll most likely be a sticker on the cards telling what type they are. |
06-21-2006, 12:06 AM
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Points: 52.96 Donate | | | awesome...so just open up may case and look at a card i already have in there? |
06-21-2006, 01:32 AM
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Points: 13.58 Donate | | | Pretty much. Just unplug EVERYTHING, open your dell, and check the RAM or Video card.
BTW Buy a cheap 128mb video card....You can always overclock it later. |
06-21-2006, 01:48 AM
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Points: 30.88 Donate | | | Also, get your nerdlest friend. There are a lot of different ram types (ddr, and ddr2) and video card types (pci, agp 4x, agp 8x, pci express) and their slots look the same to an untrained eye. I could look at it for you, and make my best guess, but I'd need a high res (3 megapixels if you can, the more the better) photo, and even then, might make a mistake (PM me, and I'll get back to you if you wish). On that note, make sure you find a place with a one week minimum return policy. You may find that you plug something in just fine, and your computer runs great for 5 minutes and dies. Or only runs once. If you can find it, Fry's Electronics has everything you need, but the people that work there are idiots and will try to sell you whatever you don't want, regardless of whether or not it will work in your computer. I was trying to buy a flat screen monitor with the old style analog plug (the blue colored on on most computers), and they kept on pushing me for the newer digital stuff, saying that "you can just up convert it." No, dumbasses, analog != digital, and it's out of my price range.
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06-21-2006, 02:49 AM
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Points: 1.49 Donate | | | well if the pc came with 128mb ram chances are its not a new pc
so it would use agp video card
but since its a dell it probally doesnt have a agp slot so u might have to get a pci video card open up the pc case and look to see if there is a agp slot for the video card its next to the rows of pci slots looks the same only smaller
and chances are its either sdram of ddr
can be easily worked out coz ddr has 2 rows at the bottom sdram has 3
u can work out the rest |
06-22-2006, 03:12 PM
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Points: 52.96 Donate | | | Yep...I got me a 128 Mb nVidia...It was awesome...Until a virus stated to delete all my files....I need to reformat my PC....so i called dell (becuase of course dell has to make iot all complicated...) and they tell me before i do it, pop out the video card...So now..i im having a shit load of trouble installing Windows Service Pack 2...It making me mad... |
06-22-2006, 03:40 PM
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Points: 9.73 Donate | | | Try booting from the cd at start-up and installing that way. |
06-22-2006, 04:03 PM
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Points: 13.42 Donate | | | an easier way of finding out wat kind of vid card u have is to type "dxdiag" in the run thingy on da start menu. |
06-22-2006, 04:39 PM
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Points: 17.57 Donate | | | Dosnt work your method (pspkillsds). | |
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