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Philip Malone
Well I purchased the Geforce fx 5600 256 mb video card
and had some questions. I did some research/chatting and
learned all sorts of tricks for better video performance,
but i do not know how to apply these settings:
1) IRQ conflicts. How do i make sure my computer isnt
experiencing any of these? How do i make sure that i
have no APIC or ACPI enabled?
2) Bios Settings. My intel bios does not have any of
the settings that people recommended that i change. It
is very limited. It's the most recent version. Is there
some other bios for video cards or something? Is there
some sort of other bios that can work in place of the
intel one? can i change these settings another way using
windows xp?:
enable fast writes
Agp aperature
AGP side Band
Assign IRQ to VGA
Pci Bursting
PCI 2.1 Compliancy
Assign IRQ to USB
3) optimizing memory timing. What is this? how do i do
it using windows xp?
4) TSRs (Terminate & Stay Resident). What are these? how
do i remove them ?
5)Standard PC mode. How do i set windows xp to run my
computer in this mode?
6) ANY AT ALL other recomendations you have for video.
So far i have done the following:
~Maxed my monitors refresh rate
~re-Set my paging file to 1024 mb, rebooted into safe
mode, defragged.
~Turned off AA and AF in my Geforce card settings.
This is ALL i have done, So any other advice you have
would be great. If u could answer any of my six
questions or help me in any other way you will have
helped me more than u can imagine. I am really in a
slump because of my poor video card performance. Thank
you very much for reading this.
and had some questions. I did some research/chatting and
learned all sorts of tricks for better video performance,
but i do not know how to apply these settings:
1) IRQ conflicts. How do i make sure my computer isnt
experiencing any of these? How do i make sure that i
have no APIC or ACPI enabled?
2) Bios Settings. My intel bios does not have any of
the settings that people recommended that i change. It
is very limited. It's the most recent version. Is there
some other bios for video cards or something? Is there
some sort of other bios that can work in place of the
intel one? can i change these settings another way using
windows xp?:
enable fast writes
Agp aperature
AGP side Band
Assign IRQ to VGA
Pci Bursting
PCI 2.1 Compliancy
Assign IRQ to USB
3) optimizing memory timing. What is this? how do i do
it using windows xp?
4) TSRs (Terminate & Stay Resident). What are these? how
do i remove them ?
5)Standard PC mode. How do i set windows xp to run my
computer in this mode?
6) ANY AT ALL other recomendations you have for video.
So far i have done the following:
~Maxed my monitors refresh rate
~re-Set my paging file to 1024 mb, rebooted into safe
mode, defragged.
~Turned off AA and AF in my Geforce card settings.
This is ALL i have done, So any other advice you have
would be great. If u could answer any of my six
questions or help me in any other way you will have
helped me more than u can imagine. I am really in a
slump because of my poor video card performance. Thank
you very much for reading this.