mobo and video card not working together

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by Jaink, Nov 27, 2005.

  1. Jaink

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    is it possible for a mobo not to be able to take a 256mb card? it has a apg slot and it is an apg card someone told me that my mobo stops at 32mb is that possible
     
    Jaink, Nov 27, 2005
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    not the ram on the card but the voltage for the card could stop it from working on the board. older agp slots used 3 volts compared to newer boards of 1.5 volts. what is the make & model # of the motherboard & videocard?
     
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  3. Jaink

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    the mobo is a UWAVE 78K1 and the card is a geforce fx 5500 agp 256mb
     
    Jaink, Nov 28, 2005
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    is that an hp & if so what model # as i did a search for UWAVE 78K1 & came back not found??
     
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  5. Jaink

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    It's a Compaq 5000 series. Model# 5WV280.

    Thanks for the response
     
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  7. Jaink

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    No I just bought the card and looked up the computer on hp.com and it said 8/16/32mb cards so I wanted to find out if that was it and I didn't want to open the card if it wasn't going to work.
     
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  8. Jaink

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    the card is made by 3d fuzion
     
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    at the time the computer came out there was no 256meg videocards or very few of them.
     
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  10. Jaink

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    thank you I will just try it and make sure that I have all the latest downloads for the computer so that it will hopfully work.
     
    Jaink, Nov 30, 2005
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