Please help if you can. Here is my

[dalbert1]

Please help if you can. Here is my situation:
I have a PIII 866 with 256mb ram on PcChips M758LMR+ motherboard. It has a built-in 16mb agp video card that I can't play games on. The picture is very slow and choppy. It's like a frame-by-frame advancement. I messed with refresh rate and all that, but no dice.

I thought it might be the video card, so I went and bought a new 64meg Hercules 4000 xt-pci (since there is no AGP slot). The new card is recognized and all drivers are installed. I even uninstalled the sis630 video card that's built in, but there is no difference in game play.

I thought it may be the ram, so I bought an additional 256mb of RAM (now has 512mb SDRAM), but to no avail.

The game is Need for Speed III, an old game that ran perfectly on my old AMD k62 300 with a Voodo 16mb video card.

Any suggestions from you pros??? Please help.
PS - there are no trojans or viruses on my machine.

Thanks!!!!!!

 

[jisoo22]

Simply uninstalling the on-board video won't suffice, you need to disable it in your device manager.

Good Luck,
Jisoo22

 

[dalbert1]

The on-board video (SiS 630) is disabled in the hardware profile.

Additionally, according to the manual, there are no jumpers to disable the on-board video.

The only display adapter showing up in the hardware profile is the Hercules 4000.

Thanks..

 

[ANFPS26]

This could be a DirectX issue. The new card works best with DirectX 8.1 and the game probably was designed for DirectX 6 or older. I have some games that won't work with DirectX 8.1. This is just a thought..... "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing....."

 

[dalbert1]

THanks for your input. I had thought of that also and then tried a new game (Gran Tourismo 3) which requires Direct X 8.0 and above and also a MMORPG (Lineage) Online Game. It's still the same.

So I'm still taking any and all suggestions/tips/comments.

Thanks again!!!!

 

[Tbarney]

Did you uninstall the old (onboard) video drivers before installing the new card. I always set the video to plain vanilla vga, shutdown my pc, install the new vid card (much to my wife's chagrin) and install the new drivers. I have found over time that old video drivers can and do cause problems like you are having.

good luck.

 

[BradSQLGuy]

You really have a great system with plently of memory it. You should have no problem whatsoever playing games on it. Since you replaced the videocard and disabled the onboard my thoughts are the motherboard may be going bad but that's a long shot. My friend has onboard 16MB and when he plays certain games it is choppy almost like he is playing online over a bad connection. We replaced his card with a 32MB and the graphics were much better but it was even worse. Unfortunately PCI slots can't come close to the kind of data transfer rates that AGP can put through and 16MB is not sufficient enough to play the kind of games that are coming out either. There should be a way to disable the onboard graphics on your motherboard. Doing this through software will usually not suffice. Read through the manufactures manual and also you may want to contact the manufacture to find out how to disable the graphics directly on the board. -Best cartoon of all time :-D 'Spongebob Squarepants' :-D

 

[Stretchy]

Seems a bit odd that there aint any jumpers for it... I had a similar problem with onboard sound, I got a SB Audigy and nothings worked... took me a while to realise that there was a conflict so i changed the jumper settings to disable on board sound..... shame that there isnt coz it might be a pain in the back side to sort out. Prolly best to contact the manufacturer like Brad said above. _______________
Stretchy [Pipe]

 

[ceh4702]

Some motherboards have their own disk and they have a software program to enable/disable the motherboards integrated parts. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[dalbert1]

I do appreciate all of your postings... Thank you.

It does seem to be a problem with the PCCHips board. I guess the board just does not allow fast graphics processing. Can anyone recommed an inexpensive MOBO that would be a good replacement and compatible with the parts I already have??

Thanks again..

 

[BradSQLGuy]

Many manufactures have different prices and some are better then others. Mainly if you play games make SURE that the mobo has an AGP slot. AGP slots are a MUST if you are into games and want to be able to play future games as well. -Brad
A+, MCSE NT4, MCDBA SQL7

-Best cartoon of all time :-D 'Spongebob Squarepants' :-D

 

[ceh4702]

You might look at abit motherboards or Gigabyte motherboards.

If you want to use the old PIII chip something like an Asus TUSL2-C might be nice. I have seen them for around $90.00 or maybe a little less. It is an excellent PIII/Celeron board. It is excellent for a Tulatin core Celeron (1.0 gig, 1.2 gig, 1.3 gig), and will support a video card that needs an AGP Pro slot. The TUSL2-C is an intel chipset and is very stable. I have one at home. VisionTek Geforce 2 GTS-V OEM boards are about $48.00. They dont make many cheap good video cards for a Geforce4 video card.

My only real suggestion is do not buy PCCHIPS motherboards. A lot of problems have been reported for motherboards made by them.



If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.