quick question on installing v card

[hogfarmr]

Asus V7700 geforce 2 will be here in a day or so.  Replacing my Tnt 2 64mb. I know how to change the card, but are there going to be any settings i should change also?
TIA
-AKHog

[Ripsnort]

Here's my somewhat limited knowledge:

Go to your SETTINGS tab under DISPLAY, and select VGA STANDARD for a video driver.  Then reboot.  You'll have the ugly 8 color 640 res screen after re-boot.  Now, un-install your old card after shutting it down again, and re-install your new card.  When windows detects your new card, it will most likely ask for a disk or directory where the new drivers are found.  If it doesn't, install them manually from the disk that came with your card (same method as above) or, I highly suggest getting the latest drivers off their website.

Goodluck!

[Ripsnort]

Also,you can get the latest drivers for your new card here: http://www.guru3d.com/

and they have a wonderfully informational BBS where all my questions have been answered quite quickly.

Regards,

[hogfarmr]

<S> rip, thanks.
-AKHog

[bloom25]

Rip is basically correct.  First you right click desktop, pick properties at the bottom, settings tab, advanced button, adapter tab, click change, click next (I think, I'm not at a windows box right now), find microsoft on the list that pops up, pick standard vga, click ok a few times and then restart.  Your screen will look terrible.  Shut down the computer, remove old card, put in new one.  Start back up, load drivers off cd.



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