Thursday, October 14

Stability! But at a price! :(  

My computer seems to be a lot more stable. I'm going to run it through this weekend before I pronounce everything working like it should.

If it is, BFG get's a headache from me, as it's going, the video card has obviously been causing me my problems, such as lockups, spontaneous reboots, and just horrific video slowdowns. How do I know this?

I installed my old Matrox Millenium PCI card. I thought it had 8 or 16 megs, and it seems to only have about 4 megs of memory (BIOS doesn't report it. Sigh.), so kiss 1600x1200 unless I want it in 256 colors. Yuch! I'm running 16 bit color in 1025x768 right now. I'm spoiled I guess. It's obviously not as fast as AGP either, as I can see it switching color palletes on me. I probably wouldn't see that on an AGP card, nor on a card with more memory. :/

Well, I'll report back what BFG has to say about my video card next Monday.

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