Asus CUW-AM and HP

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I installed an ATI based Excalibur Radeon 9200 PCI 128MB into my ol' HP
Pavilon which had a Trigem MB w/PIII 933MHz in it. Was never able to
completely get the BIOS to give back the 4 MB of ram it was pirating from
the system for the onboard, but it works excellent. Unfortunatly "new" PCI's
start at ~$69(CDN) and can go all the way up to a couple hundred depending
on features. ie: TV out, dual monitor, etc....the Excalibur was ~$140 brand
new.


"Robert Sudbury" <news20031001ALLOF@YOURCLOTHESpoetryinmotionflyball.ca>
wrote in message news:suRic.1769$iX1.110243@news20.bellglobal.com...
> An HP Pavilion xe813 that uses the ASUS CUW-AM motherboard:
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc [...] e=bph06284
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc [...] e=bph07170
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> Useless HP manual:
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc [...] e=bph05156
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> Asus's website lists many CUW variations but not the CUW-AM, and then
> trying
> to dig up the manual sends me into loops between country sites. I've
> located the last BIOS; don't need help with drivers.
>
> Google searches aren't bringing much other meaningful info so far.
>
> A friend wants to add a video card to supplant the Intel onboard...
> cheaply
> (ie: won't buy a new Barton2500+ system for
> 450$CAD).
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> Recommendations on PCI video cards proven to work with this icky chipset
> on
> this icky HP board would be helpful. I'm 2900km from this board so I
> can't
> tell you anything else.
>
> If you're in or know of locations for available PCI cards in the Calgary,
> Alberta, Canada area, even better.
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