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  1. markinvention

    Help! Advice on Upgrading Old PC's with New Video Card

    Thanks everyone. I've actually ordered the X1650 so will let you know how it all goes. The info from Paparazi was very useful indeed. One of the things I am finding with some cards is that the max resolutions apply to VGA and not DVI - so it's always wise just to check the max DVI resolutions...
  2. markinvention

    Help! Advice on Upgrading Old PC's with New Video Card

    The only spec I've got on the mainboard is: Chipset type: Intel 845 DDR Data Bus Speed: 400mhz The spec does say 4xAGP, but I had been told elsewhere that 8 x AGP was backward compatible with 4x?
  3. markinvention

    Help! Advice on Upgrading Old PC's with New Video Card

    Thanks Tony I don't know if I'm becoming 'blind' after looking at so many card specs, but I'm finding cards but they either quote high resolution specs which don't actually apply to DVI, or are PCI Express.
  4. markinvention

    Help! Advice on Upgrading Old PC's with New Video Card

    Dear all We would like to upgrade 2 old PC's with a new video card to work with a flat panel LCD monitor and DVI. The monitor requires 1920 x 1200 at 60hz as native resolution. The older PC's work with 4 x AGP. I have looked on many web sites, even bought a GeForce 6200 256MB DDR2 AGP DVI...
  5. markinvention

    Win98 Setup won't Install - '

    Thanks so much to you all!! I used the win.old/boot disc solution and it worked like a dream. Thanks to you, I have now solved my problem (or one of them at least :) I hope to repay the compliment to you all sometime in the future.
  6. markinvention

    Win98 Setup won't Install - '

    jimp56 Lack of sleep must be getting to me.... Successfully initiated the command prompt, it worked like a dream, unfortunately I got another error saying that I already had an operating system running and needed to get a Windows 98SE upgrade disc - the one I was trying to install was a 'full...
  7. markinvention

    Win98 Setup won't Install - '

    I've been trying to install Win98SE on an old PC currently running Win98 first edition. When I run 'setup' for SE, the setup checks the system and reports the following error: 'Setup has detected that your disc has a 64k FAT cluster partition. Because ScanDisc does not work on discs with this...

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