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motorik
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Posted : May 14, 2004 21:23
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I want to exchange my soundcard and my graphic card place in their PCI slots i pupose of comfortable approch to the soundcard And it's cables?
Can i just do the switch and windows will detect it by itself and configurate? or Will i need to do some IRQ or other kind of OS settings?
Thanks in adance.
salute
motorik
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gothmog
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Posted : May 14, 2004 23:19
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well i wouldn't change things in my computer based upon answers givven here. from my experience you can never know and even if you can exchance slots every time you take action with your computer you are taking a risk. so if it is working ok now you are risking making it not working. try asking this question in a computer support forum of somekind. |
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Input
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Posted : May 15, 2004 00:11
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If you're runing a plug n play OS like windows XP/2K/ME/9X you can feel safe to do it. Windows will automatically recognize the change and will update the address/irq settings.
if you want to be sure even more then go into your bios and find the "Reset Configuration Data" and "Plug and Play OS" features and select yes for them both.
it will force your OS to Reinitalize the address settings.
Gothmog, you said "well i wouldn't change things in my computer based upon answers givven here"
I don't agree with that. Some users here have a vast knowledge with computers and hardware.
I specfically working with those machines about 10 years.
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Pavel
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Posted : May 15, 2004 07:46
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Unless your PC is very old you won't be able to switch between the cards cause Graphic Cards nowadays come with AGP interface.
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Amygdala
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Posted : May 16, 2004 11:49
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Das Fung>
"sometimes i wonder if Pc is machine or AI " - word  I ask that same question very often!
Motorik>
You should be in no trouble if you switch cards. There are some funny stuff going on with the PCI bus though. Sometimes the cards have to be in a certain order - I remember once, I installed an ethernet card, and it just wouldn't show up anywhere in Windows. I don't know how I got the idea, but I swapped places between ethernet and graphics adapter, and everything turned out fine.
The OS found everything for itself, and no hacking was nescesary
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motorik
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Posted : May 17, 2004 10:30
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On 2004-05-15 07:46, Pavel (microByte) wrote:
Unless your PC is very old you won't be able to switch between the cards cause Graphic Cards nowadays come with AGP interface.
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Thanks pavel ...correct.. 
I opened the computer tower and looked around and you right i can't do it because of the of the AGP interface...
Thanks And salute
motorik
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medir
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Posted : May 17, 2004 13:18
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in general, if u like to switch pci-card places, u should first uninstall it and then reinstall the drivers...
agp is an other chapter...
experiment !
make it your motto day and night.
experiment,
and it will lead you to the light.
the apple on the top of the tree
is never too high to achieve,
so take an example from eve...
experiment ! |
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Pavel
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Posted : May 17, 2004 19:37
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On 2004-05-17 10:30, motorik wrote:
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On 2004-05-15 07:46, Pavel (microByte) wrote:
Unless your PC is very old you won't be able to switch between the cards cause Graphic Cards nowadays come with AGP interface.
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Thanks pavel ...correct..
I opened the computer tower and looked around and you right i can't do it because of the of the AGP interface...
Thanks And salute
motorik
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