Dimension 2400 running Vista

[ultimateav]

Hey, been a while...

I am running a Dimension 2400 Cel 2.4GHz with 512MB and the built in Intel 845G graphics controller and am looking to upgrade my graphics card in order to get a better resolution than 640x480 at High Color. 1024x768 goes to 256 colours and cannot get it to go to anything better....

Can anyone recommend a cheap PCI card(yes, I know - an old technology, I do not have AGP or PCI-E as the unit is 3 years old) for under £25/30?

I am looking at this but am not sure of it is compatible...

http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?prodID=B65347

Can anyone help please? Thanks in advance.

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[Lemon13]

that one should do the job

 

[kestrel1]

Try these:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/cat/Graphics-Cards-Nvidia/subcat/nVIDIA-PCI-Range

or these:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/sear...&intCatID=48&intSubcatUID=707&bolShowAll=true

 

[SteveLord]

Your system lacks a decent cpu and even amount of memory to run Vista comfortably.

Since VISTA wont do anything new for you, I would skip it until you have a better system.


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[kestrel1]

Vista wasn't even mentioned.
Anyway, vista would run on this system, all right it wouldn't be great.
I had Vista RC1 running on my machine & that was only an AMD Duron 1ghz & 768mb ram. It ran OK. Being as this was very old technology I think that aint bad.

 

[felixc]

You want to run Vista just to get better graphics? Oh no don't do that! Or you have already installed Vista and you can't get better than 1024 x 768 at 256 colors with this chipset?

I can't believe that the Intel graphics is that cheap. There must be a driver issue in your system, or perhaps a BIOS setting to allocate enough system memory for the graphics controller. For 1024 x 768 at 16 bpp you need 2 Megs of memory min. Perhaps that the BIOS is only allocating 1 meg.

(I have a vintage 486 system with integrated graphics and it does 1024 x 768 x 16bpp).

 

[kestrel1]

Can someone tell where in the original post that Vista was mentioned.
Have I missed something?

 

[ultimateav]

Admittedly it wasn't mentioned in the original post but the entire subject was about running Vista on my Dimension 2400 - hence why I called the Thread "Dimension 2400 running Vista"

Sorry....

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[kestrel1]

OOPs. I missed the that one. How dense am I.