New graphics card

[Martin_1962]

Started getting serious flickering - nothing fixed it so I bought a new graphics card - little around now for AGP so I got a Leadtek A7600 - well it had lots of memory and lots of big numbers.

Took 3 hours to get drivers to work because that rubbish gates company sets PCI permissions in the registry to none

However all works well now and seams good for games and playing videos

[Hillper]

I had serious flickering too recently.

Loaded new drivers.  Still the same.  Fiddled with settings.  No good.

Turned out to be me poor ol' eyes.  Large mug of Horlicks and a good sleep soon sorted that problem out.

[Admin]

Started getting serious flickering - nothing fixed it so I bought a new graphics card - little around now for AGP so I got a Leadtek A7600 - well it had lots of memory and lots of big numbers.

Took 3 hours to get drivers to work because that rubbish gates company sets PCI permissions in the registry to none

However all works well now and seams good for games and playing videos

Erm, if it is an AGP card, why are you worried about the PCI permissions (I may be missing something as it's been a while)?
I've never had to change them when fitting a new card..

Still it is all good now and that is the important thing.

[Taxi_Driver]

Started getting serious flickering - nothing fixed it so I bought a new graphics card - little around now for AGP so I got a Leadtek A7600 - well it had lots of memory and lots of big numbers.

Took 3 hours to get drivers to work because that rubbish gates company sets PCI permissions in the registry to none

However all works well now and seams good for games and playing videos

Erm, if it is an AGP card, why are you worried about the PCI permissions (I may be missing something as it's been a while)?
I've never had to change them when fitting a new card..

Still it is all good now and that is the important thing.

Last time I changed my AGP card in my desktop (for a DVI one) I just had to install driver and away it went.....some Dell's are fussy which PCI slot you use, but i thought that only applied to network cards  :-/

[TheBoy]

What is the video chipset. AFAIK, for Nvidia and ATI/AMD based cards, Leadtek use the standard manufacturer supplied drivers...

[Martin_1962]

Started getting serious flickering - nothing fixed it so I bought a new graphics card - little around now for AGP so I got a Leadtek A7600 - well it had lots of memory and lots of big numbers.

Took 3 hours to get drivers to work because that rubbish gates company sets PCI permissions in the registry to none

However all works well now and seams good for games and playing videos

Erm, if it is an AGP card, why are you worried about the PCI permissions (I may be missing something as it's been a while)?
I've never had to change them when fitting a new card..

Still it is all good now and that is the important thing.

Well it wouldn't accept some data or other - search and according to the monopoly it was registry permissions

[Martin_1962]

What is the video chipset. AFAIK, for Nvidia and ATI/AMD based cards, Leadtek use the standard manufacturer supplied drivers...

I'll have to have a look

[Taxi_Driver]

Oh and some Intel server motherboards (carnt remember which one now) are fussy which pci slot you plug a raid controller into......i spent 2 days trying to get a raid controller to work....and about 4 hours onto tech support in germany for intel......turned out to be wrong pci slot i plugged it into.....moved it one slot and it worked !!  

[supermop]

Is it PCI or PCI-Express?

Secondly, I have never heard of this PCI permissions thing. Leadtek usually make nVidia cards which don't require any special tweaking to my knowledge. They also use standard manufacturer drivers, available on nVidia site.

I know you got it fixed now, but I'm still curious about the above permissions thing. I've built a lot of PC's, new and old and not had a problem like it yet.

[TheBoy]

Is it PCI or PCI-Express?

Secondly, I have never heard of this PCI permissions thing. Leadtek usually make nVidia cards which don't require any special tweaking to my knowledge. They also use standard manufacturer drivers, available on nVidia site.

I know you got it fixed now, but I'm still curious about the above permissions thing. I've built a lot of PC's, new and old and not had a problem like it yet.

Leadtek also do ATI based, and some nasty ones based on cheap, old chips similar to s3, SiS etc...

[Martin_1962]

THis one is nvidia and is good

[TheBoy]

THis one is nvidia and is good

Thats odd, as Leadtek usually follow Nvidias reference design, and use standard drivers. Not heard of this problem before though.  Which Nvidia chip is it using? Which Detonator ver are you running?

[Martin_1962]

I'll check later

[supermop]

Is it PCI or PCI-Express?

Secondly, I have never heard of this PCI permissions thing. Leadtek usually make nVidia cards which don't require any special tweaking to my knowledge. They also use standard manufacturer drivers, available on nVidia site.

I know you got it fixed now, but I'm still curious about the above permissions thing. I've built a lot of PC's, new and old and not had a problem like it yet.

Leadtek also do ATI based, and some nasty ones based on cheap, old chips similar to s3, SiS etc...

True. The majority are nVidia, hence why i said usually . s3 and SiS are nasty. First hand experience here

[Martin_1962]

Is it PCI or PCI-Express?

Secondly, I have never heard of this PCI permissions thing. Leadtek usually make nVidia cards which don't require any special tweaking to my knowledge. They also use standard manufacturer drivers, available on nVidia site.

I know you got it fixed now, but I'm still curious about the above permissions thing. I've built a lot of PC's, new and old and not had a problem like it yet.

Leadtek also do ATI based, and some nasty ones based on cheap, old chips similar to s3, SiS etc...

True. The majority are nVidia, hence why i said usually . s3 and SiS are nasty. First hand experience here

Not just nasty but evil too they do not allow VGA DOS graphic applications to run, my work PC has a Inno3D GeForce4 MX 440/440SE according to device manager and that does VGA graphics but not as well as my old W98 PC which allowed me to run them in windows (S3 Trio 32/64PCI)

Gamer cards like my home PC do run DOS VGA quite well!