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Re: Garage Sale Computers

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 25 Jul 21 1:17 AM | 47 view(s)
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Re: “I have a spare graphics plug in card, pci express slot. Its old but around right era for what you have.”Thanks! I might just take you up on that since I'm not having any luck. But first, let me tell you a little more about what I'm dealing with and you can then tell me if you've actually got something YOU DON'T NEED that will work.

This eMachines computer is really small - just 4 inches tall with only two expansion slots. If you look at my first photo, you'll see that the Radeon graphics card I've got alongside it is taller than the computer! Yup, it's 4.75 inches tall. Fortunately, it's only that tall because of the card's backplane, and the backplane wasn't too hard to remove at which point I got the card to fit (but it could no longer be secured with a screw, which wouldn't really work as a long-term solution.)

Unfortunately, after hooking it all up, the card either doesn't work ... or the slot I plugged the card into is incompatible with the slot or computer ... or I have to somehow disable the onboard VGA graphics before an expansion graphics card will work (but I don't see a BIOS option for that.)

My understanding of 2012-era computers is poor since I rarely touched hardware once I moved to Virginia in 2005. But this computer's small expansion slot is an AGP, is it not? I'm thinking that only an AGP graphics card will work with the computer and that, probably, if I had one plugged in it would automatically disable the VGA graphics adapter. Part of why I think that is because when I pulled this graphics card from the computer it was originally in, the original computer's on-board VGA port kicked in automatically.

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Re: Garage Sale Computers
By: micro in 6TH POPE
Sat, 24 Jul 21 10:27 PM 		Msg. 20548 of 53281

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I have a spare graphics plug in card, pci express slot. Its old but around right era for what you have. I can send it to you for free if ya want it. Its plug and play so it should work fine with yer linux setup.

I have several graphics cards thata re higher end as well which have their own cooling fans on them that I will never use as well. Free to a good home..

I love taking an older machine and modifying it, like Zim can and yourself.
HAve a large plastic storage bin with Lid full of computer parts in my shed.. Never know when ya may need something..

Ya done good there sir! Sounds like tehre may have been a little personal satisfaction in getting these things up and running as well.

Great work. Let me know if ya want any of the video cards..

micro...


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